Tag: Product and design
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Building a minesweeper game using React Hooks
Posted on March 17, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Author of this blog post will share his experience and learnings with a project to improve my knowledge of the most significant ReactJS feature in recent time -- hooks. Tutorial is about building Minesweeper clone. TypeScript was also used. By Ivaylo.
Tags software-engineering frontend-and-mobile product-and-design
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User authentication with Amplify in React Native and Expo app
Posted on March 16, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
AWS Amplify is a fantastic framework that helps you develop your web or mobile applications quickly. By Aman Mittal.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design security-and-privacy
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Introduction to utility-first CSS for web developer
Posted on March 9, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
CSS is an easy language to learn (and to implement) for creating a beautiful website. However, when it comes to implementing CSS at scale, it's not that simple. For large scale websites and applications, CSS becomes really hard to write in. By Thoriq Firdaus in Coding.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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Variable fonts: Is the performance trade-off worth it?
Posted on March 8, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Anna Monus wrote this piece about variable fonts. Variable fonts are popular for two reasons: they expand design possibilities and improve website performance. While the former statement is definitely true since variable fonts do provide infinite typographical choices, the latter only holds under certain conditions.
Tags product-and-design software-engineering frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career
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The magic of generating an Xcode project
Posted on February 21, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Planet Earth vs. Jupiter. There is the same order of magnitude between the ratio of these two planets and the amount of code that defined the SoundCloud iOS project before -- Jupiter -- and after -- Earth -- generating it using Tuist. By Andrea Cipriani.
Tags frontend-and-mobile ai-and-machine-learning product-and-design software-engineering
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Creating true fluid web typography to improve our processes
Posted on February 4, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Responsive web design has been a must-have skill for front-end developers for many years now, but creating a truly fluid interface and giving users a seamless experience across any device still poses a lot of challenges for designers and developers alike. By Razvan Onofrei.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile how-to
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The building blocks of visual design
Posted on January 26, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Visual design is about creating and making the general aesthetics of a product consistent. To create the aesthetic style of a website or app, we work with fundamental elements of visual design, arranging them according to principles of design. By Yu Siang Teo.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile miscellaneous
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How to conduct UX research if you're an introvert
Posted on December 30, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
If your goal is to gather as many insights as possible, you need to open your participant up. And how do you open someone up if you're scared yourself? Here are some things I learned along the way that you might find helpful. By Olga Wojnarowska.
Tags product-and-design how-to data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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UX design 101: Thinking in (user) flows
Posted on December 23, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This session is part of a learning curriculum that author designed to incrementally skill up and empower a team of Designers and Researchers whose skillset and ways of working had fallen behind the times. By Robert Sens.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Maybe you don't need a date picker
Posted on December 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Calendar controls, date pickers, date widgets, whatever you call them, however they are described, they follow the same basic principle -- present the user with a calendar to enter a date (and sometimes a time). By Adrian Roselli.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design software-engineering
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Customer and user perception of value and what it means to designers
Posted on December 16, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Financial value is not the only motivating factor for users and consumers to invest in a product. In fact, it is the perception of value both financial and non-financial that drives the decision to adopt (or not) a product. By Wiki4des and www.interaction-design.org.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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Design Scenarios -- Communicating the small steps in the User Experience
Posted on December 1, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Design scenarios are useful tools for communicating ideas about user actions. Mapping design scenarios also has the added benefit that it helps formalize ideas and to take creative approaches to those ideas. By Katie Inglis.
Tags frontend-and-mobile backend-development product-and-design