Validate your assumptions

Last week I presented you with a coding challenge. This week, I’m going to follow up and show you one of my favorite software development techniques. First, here are the solutions I got, in the order in which they arrived: * David 39 loc * Evan 40 loc * Damian 54 loc

Weekend Reading — Like IP addresses to lightbulbs

Cartoon: Spring Fever This week we learn about fluency and discipline as pre-cursors to creativity; we build desktop and iOS apps with HTML and JS; we burn out on open source; we learn the secrets of great (and toxic) managers; we laugh/cry with James Mickens; we come to terms

Weekend Reading — Made of practice

Truth Facts: Explaining the battery life of your laptop This week we explore spatial interfaces and the dark patterns of Ashley Madison; we learn about progressive apps and the CRAP metric; we practice beautiful code and settle the score on tabs vs spaces; we make safer, easier to memorize passwords;

Code challenge: tell the time

I'm going to try something new and share with you a quick code challenge. It's actually more of a solution design challenge. The code part should be fairly trivial. I'm going to share my solution next week. If you decide to solve this, post

Weekend Reading — Street Art

Ant-Man installations for Marvel's Ant-Man movie! Amazing. From The Little People Project. This week we compare Material Design with iOS Design; swap Chrome for Safari to extend battery life; learn to write functions that use promises; reminisce about Nokia candybar phones; dodge a bullet by not upgrading to

Weekend Reading — Mr. Robot

skip this ad from the hilarious marketoonist This week we've got a fantastic presentation about Web Design, the first 100 years, or so; a Verge clickbait article backfires; we turn you into a C++ rockstar programmer in just 2 minutes; we debate clear vs clever and find out

Weekend Reading — Democracy needs Javascript

Design Objective Designing Moments Explores the design decisions behind Facebook's Moments app. The anatomy of a credit card form How to design the perfect credit card form. Meaningful Design for Apple Watch How most apps are doing it wrong, and where the real opportunity lies. The Web’s

Weekend Reading — Surprise holidays

11 Perks of Having the Worst Memory Ever My life, explained. Design Objective What happens when an Apple guy explores Material Design? I'm a fan of material design. The UI is good, as good as anything Apple makes. And also, you can use it for mobile and webapps.

Weekend Reading — The Developer Walk of Shame

“The Developer Walk of Shame: a bug-fix update after a major new release” — Dark Sky changelog Design Objective Color vs Contrast: Which one brings more conversion? The contrast theory is worth exploring. @madhava Illustration of user-understanding being complicated: 2 reactions to a UI trying to require minimal info disclosure. Thriving