Getting to the Right Amount of Design

Most of our clients hire us to take fuzzy ideas (some fuzzier than others) and bring them to life in the form of software. A designer’s role at Atomic is to be the point person of a team that advocates for the user. How? By helping to design the flow, structure, and look and feel […]

Creating a 3D Logo with Vectary

Before a recent request to create the Atomic Logo in 3D, I had never ventured much into the 3D design realm. A few years back, I’d attempted 3D design using Sketch, and before that, I’d tried Blender/Rhino. This software brought with it a host of challenges, so I was pretty nervous to try to output […]

3 Steps to Building Credibility & Winning Your Client’s Trust

As a member of a software implementation team, I consider building credibility with new clients extremely important. Fortunately, clients usually have many positive interactions with people at Atomic Object before meeting with us, which tees up the relationship. Nevertheless, there’s often a noticeable skepticism from clients before implementation begins. This is understandable, as these clients […]

Using Material Design? Keep the Design & Dev Teams Communicating

In an ideal world, the development team would build a component and pattern library around the designs identified by designers’ knowledge, industry standards, and research. Often, however, we see clients leverage Google’s Material Design, Bootstrap, or the like to expedite the process. There are often hidden costs to this route, which mainly surface as communication […]

Smoothing the Design Handoff with a Component Library

If your team is like many of the teams we work with, you’ve implemented a component library, but you’re finding that things aren’t working as smoothly expected. Component libraries alone can do the job for a small, highly-skilled implementation team. But communication seems to break down when you add in less-than-top-rated developers or designers or those […]

A Designer’s Guide to Scraping Data from HTML Pages with Artoo

Gathering real data for your digital designs can be a real challenge. Without access to the client’s data, we’re often on our own—reliant on bad mock data or Lorem ipsum. But don’t worry, Artoo can help solve this problem by web scraping HTML pages for you. Artoo is a neat little web scraper that will […]

What You Can Learn by Studying Design Maturity Models

I recently worked on a project that involved assessing a corporation’s design system. As a part of that research, my team came across the idea of a design maturity model in a study published by Invision. This model helps assess how well design is being applied in an organization. Since we often receive feedback about […]

Intro to Lean UX Canvas – Defining a Software Solution

The Lean UX Canvas is a tool to help visualize and document your problem space, similar to the Business Model Canvas that you may know. It can be leveraged at the beginning of new software products to help align the team around the problem, come up with potential solutions, and figure out how to refine […]

Mail Merge for Documents using Google Sheets, Docs, & Scripts

Manually modifying numerous documents can be tedious. Google’s G Suite can help you make this process easier. I like to think of it as mail merge for documents. Instead of sending out custom emails to a group of recipients, we create a custom document or PDF in the same fashion.

Getting Started with Chart.js – The Easy, Beautiful Way to Chart

Chart.js is a JavaScript tool which allows you to generate charts for a webpage. It is an approachable way to create beautiful charts with little effort. Due to the good examples and solid documentation, it won’t take long to get your data on the page.

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By: Bryan Elkus

Author: Bryan Elkus