Paul Hart on Atomic Spin

Culture

Three Values that Matter to Me in a Work Environment

I've been working at Atomic for three years. I've learned a lot about designing great custom software. But I've also learned about working with people.

Extracurricular Activities

How We Used Dot Voting to Plan Our Family’s Summer Vacation

Ready? Set. Go! Here's how an effective brainstorm method called 'dot voting' helped our family plan summer vacation.

UX/Design Practices

Design Saturates Our Software Process

Agile design is infused into all stages of software product development, and developers participate in strategic and tangible design throughout the project.

UX/Design Practices

Innovation through Brainstorming with the F.I.T. Technique

Mid-project brainstorming sessions are a great way to maintain perspective and test your assumptions.

UX/Design Practices

Content Without Context Is Dead

Research your users so you understand what they want and how they feel. Then develop scenarios to describe the real life situations they're in.

Web Apps

Working with Compass Sprites — Lessons Learned

An introduction to Compass Sprites and its benefits, plus a setup overview and some tips and workarounds.

UX/Design Practices

Purposeful Inspiration

When you design for a living, you can't wait for inspiration. Keep your eyes open, surround yourself with inspiring things, and let your creativity flow.

UX/Design Practices

Designing Around an Experience

By understanding the context, motivations, and desires of the person using the product, I can better determine how to design the details.

Personal Optimization, Ruby on Rails

Writing a Good Blog Post – An 11-Step Process

This process has improved my ability to write my blog posts and general web content.

UX/Design Tools

Working with Compass Sprites

The problem comes in being able to tweak the positioning after Compass has done its work.

UX/Design Tools

How to Improve Your Site’s Search Results

Practical tips for improving the user experience of searching for content on your website.

Web Apps

Getting the HTML5 Audio Tag to Work in Firefox

HTML5 offers tags that make it easier to embed content into your website. This is the basic audio tag that I could get to work in any browser:

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