Each week, we do a round up of curated “stuff from the interwebs” that we call Radar.
Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley
A few weeks ago, I answered a question on Quora explaining how it feels to be a Black software engineer in Silicon Valley. I explained that most of the time, my race doesn’t play into how I’m treated at work and how my work is recognized. While that answer is mostly true, it felt incomplete. […]
FrontEnd Design Conference June15-17 2016
A CONFERENCE FOR WEB PROFESSIONALS WHO LOVE THEIR COMMUNITY, THE WEB, AND LEARNING.
Sublime Tutor
An interactive in-editor keyboard shortcuts tutorial for Sublime Text 3
Content-First Prototyping
Content is the core commodity of the digital economy. It is the gold we fashion into luxury experience, the diamond we encase in loyalty programs and upsells. Yet, as designers, we often plug it in after the fact. We prototype our interaction and visual design to exhaustion, but accept that the “real words” can just […]
Why designing for delight doesn’t always work
Delight is one of my favorite words. It captures a feeling most of us probably wish we had more often. So it’s no surprise that CX folks are somewhat obsessed with the concept of delighting customers. After all, who doesn’t like to be delighted? What could possibly go wrong?
Making beautiful, interactive maps (with some JavaScript)
I love maps. Especially ones that display data meaningfully. But the idea of making one myself using JavaScript was overwhelming .Turns out it’s not too tricky, even for someone new to JavaScript, if you use CartoDB and their JavaScript library . Here’s how I made an interactive map displaying the condition of bridges across Ontario:
Variable Fonts for Responsive Design
Choosing typefaces for use on the web today is a practice of specifying static fonts with fixed designs. But what if the design of a typeface could be as flexible and responsive as the layout it exists within?
10 Things Every Web Designer Should Be Able to Do in Their Sleep
Some skills, you just need to know. And you better know them so well that you can do them almost without thinking. When it comes to web design, many skills can change and evolve over time, but there are a few basics that you should be able to do in your sleep.
Improving Communication Between Content and Design Teams
Content and design—it’s always been a chicken-and-egg conundrum. Design needs content, and content needs design. But communication between content and design isn’t always so smooth.
Devices as designers
I knew something is wrong when I read about the golden age of design is coming. I’m always aware of the consequences of something big coming.
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Here’s the link to this week’s batch of goodness: Radar #145.
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