I gave a talk yesterday at the Chicago Startup Forecast. Here’s a rough transcript, with slides. This is Daniel Burnham . He was a famous Chicago architect, responsible for some of our city’s most bea
Stack Exchange This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange , a free, community-powered network of 100
We’re at an inflection point inthe practice of constructing software. Our tools are good, our serverdevelopers are happy, but when it comesto building client-side software, we really don’t know where
Anything can be your Minimum Viable Product, so long as you’re truly focused on validated learning 4 min read · Nov 30, 2013 -- As many of you will know, I’ve long been an advocate and practitioner of
And before we discovered the power of experiments, this project began with 75 ideas based on intuition alone: Idea 1 1. Try A One Column Layout instead of multicolumns. A one column layout will give y
AnglarJS is great! But when dealing with large lists containing complex data structure, things can get very slow! We ran into that problem when migrating our core admin screens to AngularJS. The scree
Nov 19, 2013 How Usability Testing Drastically Improved My Client’s App About The Author Josh is principal at Planetary , a design and development agency based out of Brooklyn, New York. He is current
In every Web product you create, you should prioritize effective over clever. As you probably already know, sometimes the equation gets reversed. During the design process, you can easily want to surprise and delight the user. So you create a design element–an interaction pattern, a naming scheme, a…
on November 12, 2013 • Reading time: 4 min • 12 Comments • 0 Follow the author on Twitter “The devil is in the details,” people tend to say. When it comes to designing a product, it is often very true. The more attention you’ll pay to all the little things, the more pleasing your product will be.…
The fifth and final Build has just wrapped up in Belfast. As always, it delivered an excellent day of thought-provoking talks. It felt like some themes emerged, not just from this year, but from the a
Published in The Airbnb Tech Blog · 10 min read · Nov 11, 2013 -- By Spike Brehm This post has been cross-posted on VentureBeat. At Airbnb, we’ve learned a lot over the past few years while building r
Bedrock April 1, 2012 Jetlag has me in its throes which is as good an excuse as any to share what has been keeping me up many nights over the past couple of years; a theory of the web as a platform. I
photo credit: wiccked via photopin cc In 2012, Mirriam-Webster’s dictionary added a definition for the F-Bomb . Why? Because the elite Mirriam-Webster work d-wonk committee decided it was necessary to
When developing in a particular environment, say Android or Cocoa, weare subconsciously aware that the APIs are essentially fixed and beyondour control. There is no effective mechanism to go and tell
How we designed and built motion into the new Potluck with Framer and Angular.js 8 min read · Oct 31, 2013 -- Earlier this week we released a refreshed design for Potluck , which aims to get you new a
Editor’s Note: This article features just one of the many solutions for creating high-performance mobile websites. We suggest that you review different approaches such as Building A Responsive Web App, Improving Mobile Support and Making Your Websites Faster before choosing a particular solution.…
Introduction What’s stopping your web pages from getting silky smooth scrolling, buttery animation and a user experience that’s snappy and fast? Jank-free rendering performance has been shown to positively affect user engagement and experience in many large sites, but remains an area many are via…
A note from the author: All of the information in this essay came from A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. via Pocket
During the summer of 1963, Earth looked a tiny bit like Saturn. The same year that Martin Luther King, Jr. marched on Washington and Beatlemania was born, the United States launched half a billion whisker-thin copper wires into orbit in an attempt to install a ring around the Earth. via Pocket
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Here is the text of the talk I gave at the Go SF meeting in June, 2012. This is a personal talk. I do not speak for anyone else on the Go team here, although I want to acknowledge right up front that
The following guest post was written by Dave Olsen, a programmer and project manager at West Virginia University. Dave will be speaking at Confab Higher Ed in Atlanta, GA this November. Is your conten
Skip to content A Journal of Strategic Insight and Foresight Do you often feel that you are not yourself? That your actions do not mirror your spirit and the core of who you are, and that you are engaged in a repetitive series of motions that do not originate within you? This is a feeling often felt…
Inside Intercom Sales 12 min read A playbook for the impatient SDR: 4 key tips to grow your sales career There’s been a lot of discussion around the role of SDRs in modern sales, and what’s changed about the role over the past decade. Buyers now have more information than ever before,… Pete Prowitt…
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