Thomas Byttebier, after having joined a digital team at Base a while ago: It’s been a crazy six months. And in all honesty: I struggled. I struggled with process. I struggled with communication. I struggled with clients. Front end was too far from design and content only arrived when a project was nearly live. As …
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Simon Sinek on Millennials (in the Workplace)
Meet Super Mario Run
Effective Writing For Your UI: Things to Avoid
Laphs: Apple Live Photos on the Web
From the folks over at Tumblr: Add support for Apple’s Live Photos in web browsers. Install it using npm, or include the dist file: npm install –save laphs You can make Laphs work with existing elements: <img src="STILL-PHOTO.jpg" data-live-photo="LIVE-PHOTO.mov" data-live-photo-still-image-time="1.71"/> <script>LivePhotos.initialize();</script> Or, alternatively, directly create new instances: const livePhoto = new LivePhotos.LivePhoto(el, options); Laphs: Live …
Hype Driven Development
Software development teams often make decisions about software architecture or technological stack based on inaccurate opinions, social media, and in general on what is considered to be “hot”, rather than solid research and any serious consideration of expected impact on their projects. I call this trend Hype Driven Development, perceive it harmful and advocate for …
Keynote Extractor
Great tool by the folks at Mono. Just a drag a presention made in Keynote on the app and it’ll generate a neat HTML output containing both your slides and presenter notes. We thought the default HTML export in Keynote didn’t fit our needs. Extract your slides alongside your notes using our super easy drag …
From Pages to Patterns
Video of Charlotte Jackson’s talk at Beyond Tellerrand on how to adopt pattern thinking to developing a pattern library/styleguide: This talk will look at how we can help everyone in the team adopt pattern thinking. This includes anyone with a decision to make—not just designers and developers. The whole team can start developing a shared …
Come Together
10 principles for smooth web animations
Don’t change any properties besides opacity or transform! Hide content in plain sight with opacity: 0; and pointer-events: none; Don’t animate everything at the same time Slightly increasing transition delays makes it easy to choreograph motion Use a global multiplier to design in slow motion (and then speed everything up later) Take videos of your …