Bryan Elkus on Atomic Spin

A Simple Way To Quickly Animate SVGs with Vivus.js

Vivus is a great tool that can quickly combine illustrations and animation. It will take your SVG and animate in the strokes as if someone were drawing it.

UX/Design Tools

Pivotal + Invision – Our Two-Tool Solution for Managing Design & Software Implementation

Thinking of Pivotal Tracker as the main backlog and Invision as the supporting visual design backlog has brought structure and transparency to the process.

Web Apps

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.

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