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Strategy, branding, print, & digital design services
Blog posts, company updates, and other insights written to help build a better web.
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Collect User Data For Cheap
We found, over our company’s existence, that collecting data doesn’t have to be an expensive venture. Nor does it have to be a long-drawn-out, time-consuming phase of a project. As agile designers and developers, we collect data during the life…
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Determining User Needs Based On User Personas
As product designers and developers, we solve problems that our users encounter. Our work, hopefully, provides solutions to tasks that either take users too long to complete, confuse them or didn’t exist in the first place. But how do we…
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Simulating Poor Network Conditions with Toxiproxy
Naturally, developers build apps in environments where network connectivity isn’t an issue — frequently the connections stay local to the development environment. That’s fine for being efficient while building out code, but it can also lead to a false confidence about the…
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Introducing Angular Waiting Button
Ten years on from the introduction of AJAX, the web is now full of asynchronous operations. AJAX itself made those async requests feasible, while Promises have been around for a while now to make handling async responses simple. When working…
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Should I Be Using Global or Local Sass Variables?
Sass provides many useful features. It gives web designers and developers the ability to DRY up our code with mixins, maps and loops. It gives us a way to split up large files, but yet still cascade our stylesheets. And…
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When Do You Know If It Is Time To Refactor
How do we solve this problem? How do we know if it’s time to refactor and fix these hacks / quick implementations? When is it worth it to invest a few extra hours or days to create a better component,…
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Designers Are Not Just “Designers” in Today’s Collaborative World
Spool, a founder of User Interface Engineering which is a usability research organization, said, “Anyone who influences what the design becomes is the designer. This includes developers, PMs, even corporate legal. All are the designers.”
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Quick Guide To Prototyping With Google Sheets
Here’s the problem. Designing prototypes for clients in Sketch, Photoshop or other tools don’t always show realistic expectations of what the real-world product will represent. These tools are powerful, helpful and easy to use — for the most part. They allow designers…
