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Technology Planning: API First Design
How to structure teams for API first development isn't as complicated as you might think.
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Why being ‘pixel perfect’ matters.
Today’s consumer expectations center on quality. Quality of design gives the impression of a professional and secure experience. Because of the amount of competition in just about every application market, if you want to be considered one of the premier players, your look and feel has to be clean and ‘pixel perfect’. Some of the […]
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UX: Why is Amazon so bad at user experience?
Chances are, you have used Amazon.com, purchased many things, or watched Prime movies over the last few years. The amazon.com site has changed over the years, but the user experience hasn’t gotten any better. The site began in 1995 and quickly became a go to for books, and online purchases. But when it comes to […]
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Semantic Color Choices For Visualizations
Semantic. What does that mean? With regards to technology, when something is semantic it describes or identifies itself. When you are talking code, a tag may describe itself, such as a < header > tag in HTML. It describes what its purpose or reason is. That can also apply for visualizations. An important, yet often […]
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Why is web color RGB and not RYB?
So, being that my college degree is an art degree I thought I would blog about a question I received tonight while teaching at the Austin Coding Academy. A student asked, “If the primary colors of the color wheel are Red, Yellow and Blue, why is web color measured in RGB (Red, Green Blue) color?” […]