Bryan Elkus on Atomic Spin

Turn Your Website Content Inventory into a To-Do List

Working on a website redesign? A content inventory can be a great tool for understanding and working through the content you want to improve.

Growing as Makers

Atomic Design Goes to Cooper

Recently, the Atomic Object designers crossed the country to take part in a Cooper design course in San Francisco

Project & Team Management

When Collaboration Goes Wrong

This post explores the challenges of collaboration, in the spirit of learning from challenging times to make interactions more positive in the future.

Personal Optimization

No Screen Time Before Bed: An Experiment

During the two weeks, I measured my sleep quality on a scale from 1-5. I also documented the number of snoozes it took me to get out of bed.

Project & Team Management

5 Ways to Prepare for a Successful Meeting with a Client

Start meetings off on the right foot, and you're at least half way there.

Personal Optimization

Why Consultants Should Read ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’

It's extremely difficult get to a win-win scenario or just have a serious productive discussion without having trust and respect in place.

UX/Design Practices

Creating a Design Inspiration Archive

Every day, I stumble across content that introduces me to a new ideas, beautiful pictures, great layouts, or amazing typography.

UX/Design Tools

Using Video to Share Your Design Ideas

One way to alleviate long-distance designing pain is to video record your designs. The process creates a simple yet engaging way to share ideas.

UX/Design Techniques

How to Add an XL Grid Size Option to Bootstrap 3

This post will walk you through the changes needed to add an additional grid size to Bootstrap.

UX/Design Techniques

Where Atomic and Photography Meet

How Atomic create a cohesive photography style that expressed our lively, welcoming, authentic culture.

UX/Design Techniques

Turning a Sequence of PNGs into a Basic Animation with Flash

How we created fluid, natural-looking animations in Flash using a series of PNGs.

UX/Design Tools

6 Helpful Sketch Shortcuts

Useful Sketch keyboard shortcuts: presentation mode, view all artboards, group layers, view/hide layout, move layers back/front, and color picker.

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