By: Jeremy White
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 31, 2016
How We Use Prototyping, And How It Made Us More Efficient
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Prototyping is essential to help your team create the best product possible. It's a chance to experiment with ideas and turn them into something tangible that you can test and build upon. When you fail with your prototype, you land softly - there's always the chance to iterate and improve.
The team behind Adobe's new prototyping tool Experience Design (Adobe XD) uses prototyping as a method to test new features before they make it into the program. Being a product manager on the Adobe XD team, I'll share some insights into how the team uses prototyping to build and improve Adobe XD, and make prototyping more efficient for designers.
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Lenovo's £449 Yoga Book has a virtual keyboard you can draw on and learns your typing style
When is a keyboard not a keyboard? When it's also a notepad and a graphics tablet
By: James Temperton
Continue reading...Tim Hortons expanding to England, Scotland and Wales
Canadian coffee shop chain seeks to be a leader in the U.K. market
A&W brings its 'Burgers to Beat MS' campaign to Snapchat
The initiative marks the QSR's first campaign on the platform
Proposed Anthropocene epoch rustles jimmies of dissenting geologists
Scientists say we've left an indelible mark on the history of our planet. But is it a deep enough footprint to mark the beginning of a new epoch?
Holy cats! The Moto Z Play has a 50-hour battery life
Motorola's latest handset, announced at IFA 2016, is making a big battery claim
By: James Temperton
Continue reading...AMD may delay next-gen Vega, confirms Zen on track for Q1 2017
AMD's Vega looks to have slipped backwards into 2017 and a later launch date than originally thought.
Corby adds to its liquor cabinet
Canadian marketer of spirits and imported wines pays $12-million cash for new brands
AGC Employment Report Identifies Factors Slowing Industry Growth
While overall trends indicate a national growth in construction employment, in certain areas of the country, there is still cause for concern. According to findings by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), this is heavily tied to the health of the local economy.
Between July 2015 and July 2016, 39 states and Washington, D.C., added construction jobs. However, upon closer inspection, only 23 states and Washington, D.C., added jobs between June 2016 and July 2016. While overall growth is undeniable, the AGC identified some reasons for the hiccups some states are experiencing.
The Real Low-Carbon Economy 'Disruptor'
When people think of the low-carbon economy and the multiple technologies in place that are fueling the growth of green, it is likely that most of them would point to wind and solar as the two most significant and influential drivers of the trend.
Not so, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs, "The New Energy Landscape: The Future of Clean Energy." Their pick: LEDs, which they identify as "one of the fastest technology shifts in human history."
Star Media Group's chief revenue officer departs
Kirk MacDonald had joined the company last October to oversee integrated sales
Canadians show CBC some love after Hip telecast
4.1 million Canadians feel more favourable towards the broadcaster in wake of concert
Visa tops list of Olympic sponsors (Report)
Nearly one third of Canadian viewers noticed the brand on an unaided basis
Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: September 2016
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We all love a good wallpaper to polish up our desktops. So to provide you with fresh artwork on a regular basis, we embarked on our desktop wallpapers mission eight years ago. Each month we challenge you, the design community, to get your creative juices flowing and produce some inspirational and unique desktop wallpapers.
And, well, also this time designers and artists from across the globe challenged their artistic abilities and contributed their designs for September. The result is a collection of desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. All of them come in versions with and without a calendar and are free to download. A big thank-you to everyone who shared their artwork! Now, which one will make it to your desktop?
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ET deals: ThinkPad T460s 14-inch 1080p laptop for $763
Need a small laptop that you can bring with you on coast-to-coast flights? Looking for something lightweight and durable that still has plenty of horsepower? Check out the 14-inch ThinkPad T460s from Lenovo. With a tiny footprint, a Skylake CPU, and all-day battery life, this laptop is a bargain when you use today's coupon code to save a total of 30%.
Patrick Jutras joining La Presse as sales VP
Longtime sales executive praises company's 'high-calibre' executive team
Low-Tech Solar Steam Generation
To be of use, solar energy must be converted into heat, electricity or mechanical power.
Heat (a.k.a. "solar thermal conversion") is one of the most popular methods for solar energy harvesting. The process involves collecting the sun's energy through optical concentrators (including mirrors or lenses), and, as the units heat up, heat is then transferred to the underlying water. Once the water temperature reaches 100°C., it converts to useful steam.
Breaking down millennial viewing audiences
Numeris spotlights viewing habits for three distinct millennial sub-groups
How We Use Prototyping, And How It Made Us More Efficient
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Prototyping is essential to help your team create the best product possible. It's a chance to experiment with ideas and turn them into something tangible that you can test and build upon. When you fail with your prototype, you land softly - there's always the chance to iterate and improve.
The team behind Adobe's new prototyping tool Experience Design (Adobe XD) uses prototyping as a method to test new features before they make it into the program. Being a product manager on the Adobe XD team, I'll share some insights into how the team uses prototyping to build and improve Adobe XD, and make prototyping more efficient for designers.
The post How We Use Prototyping, And How It Made Us More Efficient appeared first on Smashing Magazine.
New Skinny Tile tracker fits in your wallet, helps you find everything else
Tile Slim is the same thickness as 2 credit cards. Like Tiles of the last 2 years, it uses Bluetooth and the battery runs for about a year. Cost is $25-$30 per Tile.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Pixel-Perfect Specifications Without The Headaches
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Designers, developers and managers often work with compressed timeframes and multiple projects simultaneously. A team must be able to respond quickly to feedback on their product from clients, project managers and developers. Each minor revision in the UI or UX needs to be reflected in the documentation, so that designers and developers always have the latest information.
A style guide ensures that your project doesn't encounter serious problems when you implement the initial design. Making sure that all specifications are accurate to their designs is critical, because an inaccurate specification means that developers will have to either rely on guesswork when building the app or go to the design source to get answers to their questions.
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New evidence strengthens the case for 'Planet 9' in the outer solar system
There could be a giant planet lurking in the frozen depths of the outer solar system, and more evidence suggests it's out there.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Ways To Reduce Content Shifting On Page Load
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Have you ever opened a website, started reading and, after some time had passed and all assets had finished loading, you found that you've lost your scroll position? I undergo this every day, especially when surfing on my mobile device on a slow connection - a frustrating and distracting experience.
Every time the browser has to recalculate the positions and geometries of elements in the document, a reflow happens. This happens when new DOM elements are added to the page, images load or dimensions of elements change. In this article, we will share techniques to minimize this content shifting.
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Zulu pitches U.S. presidential candidates
Toronto agency creates mock-campaign aimed at potential American clients
We're Grieving the End of The Night Of-in a Good Way
Apple wants you to know that it loves AI more than you realize
Tired of getting sand kicked in its face by high-profile AI efforts from Google and Facebook, Apple opens the kimono to reveal that it is using AI technologies throughout its product line
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Friday, August 26, 2016
How to stop WhatsApp sharing your phone number with Facebook
The WhatsApp update is designed to improve user experience across the app and Facebook.
By: Sarah Griffiths
Continue reading...This exoskeleton glove could let you feel the 'shape' of virtual reality
You can see VR, but you can't feel VR. Maybe one day, you will with Dexmo.
Web Development Reading List #151: Microinteraction UX, Feature Policy, And Passport.js
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In the last few years, I've seen a lot of code. As a freelancer working on multiple big projects with a lot of people, you'll inevitably see all varieties of code styles. But I also realized how much writing JavaScript changed over the past years.
Having learned JavaScript before ES6 was there, a great mentor (Hans Christian Reinl) taught me the most important lesson: Always write clean, understandable code. Avoid ternary operators, declare variables in one place, make functions as simple as possible. Basically things that so many JavaScript style guides also advise. But with the growing adoption of ES6/ES2015, I also saw an increase of code where most of these principles (except for keeping functions small) are ignored.
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