Bryan Elkus on Atomic Spin

Four Hurdles when Prototyping with Material-UI for React

Material-UI got us working quickly and helped us to deliver a powerful yet simple user experience, but there were a few items that were a little sticky.

Project & Team Management

Identifying Design & Development Implementation Potholes

For successful design and development interactions, it's important to pay attention to three distinct touchpoints during software implementation.

UX/Design Practices

When’s the Best Time to User Test? A Case Study

Which gives you the optimal feedback from users — a clickable prototype with visual design or a simplified implementation of the app?

UX/Design Tools

Three Tips for Winning Your Battle with Sketch Symbols

I am a firm believer in using symbols in Sketch, but with their use comes some additional complexity. This is especially true since the release of nested symbols and shared librari

UX/Design Tools

Inspecting Safari’s Web Browser on a Mobile Device

Mobile browser emulators don’t always have the same oddities as your actual mobile or tablet. Here's how to inspect sites using Safari on OSX.

UX/Design Techniques

Practices for Harnessing SCSS with React

We have been hard at work on a client project using React, and we've established a set of rules to help us keep the CSS in order.

Web Apps

Experimenting with MongoDB

On a recent prototype, we wanted to bring in a database instead of relying on something like Google Sheets, so we experimented with MongoDB.

Growing as Makers

How Being a Consultant Taught me to Appreciate the Value of Time

After I started tracking time as a consultant, I realized how scarce time really was. It's taught me to question the value of every activity I do.

Web Apps

Multiple HTTP Requests for an AngularJS + Google Sheets Prototype

Because of the way I was completing the HTTP request of the initial Google Sheet data, the HTTP request was asynchronous.

Web Apps

JSON to XML with AngularJS in Preparation for InDesign

I export the XML tree in the DOM, then save that text as an XML document. I used AngularJS for the web application, and JavaScript to create the XML feed.

UX/Design Tools

Creating a Dynamic Catalog with InDesign Templates & XML Data

Step by step instructions for using an XML set of data to populate a catalog or print layout with Indesign, to help you keep a consistent visual style.

UX/Design Tools

How InVision’s Inspect Can Give Your Team One Source of Design Truth

When the person designing the visuals isn't the one creating the code, use InVision's Inspect as your single source of design truth.

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