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Everyone’s a Contributor: Knowing What’s Possible in Product Design
Learning to code doesn’t come with the knowledge of what to code. Coding is a tool, and a (possible) means to an end — just like design, prototyping, devops, data visualization, and all of the other...
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3 Design Exercises to Drive Your Software Discovery Process
Software starts just like most contracted projects: Information gathering, mapping needs to best practices, and surfacing the hard stuff. We (like many other digital agencies) call this exercise...
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Hard-Won Wrong Opinions on Software
Tech’s idea of “state of the art” is a moving target. Developers tend to pick up their expertise in real time — opinions, preferences, and instincts all tied to a hands-on need. The specificity of it...
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Picking a SaaS Product is Tougher Than Ever
In the market for an ecommerce platform or a payment processor? Wondering which you need in the first place? Neck deep in CRMs, CMSs, APIs, and other three-letter initialisms? You’re in good company....
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Designing a User Interface for Critical Tasks
Designers spend a lot of time “inventing” interfaces. The results are a marriage of best practices (always in motion), trial and error (if there’s time), and intuition (stemming from experience). The...
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What New Developers Need to Develop
The toughest part of becoming a developer? Landing your first role. Opportunities for those 1–3 years of junior experience are a challenge for recent graduates, bootcamp students, and self-paced...
View ArticleHow Organization Size Influences Developers’ Decision-Making
We’ll start with a statement that’ll surprise no one: The right technical decisions for a small company and a large company don’t match up. Patterns and processes from the gradient of organization...
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Helping Users Hate UI Updates a Little Less
Seasons come and go. People evolve and grow. One day you’re a young and vibrant 20-something and then wham, Gen Z tells you skinny jeans aren’t cool anymore. Ouch. When it comes to software design,...
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Starting a Design System (Without Overthinking It)
Design systems. They’re a well-tread commodity at this point, headlining conferences, products, podcasts, and articles. We’re guilty, too (1, 2, 3) — and here’s another post. What’s left to talk...
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Software Triage
Writing out a recipe makes it real really quick. There’s a new level of precision required: quantities, time, technique, and the order of operations all have to be recorded in a way that someone else...
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