Jason Porritt on Atomic Spin

7 Tips for a Joyful Return to a Software Project

Jumping back into an older dev. project can be easy, or it can be a pain in the neck. Here's how to make it a joy.

Technical Practices

How Do We Know Our Software Works?

People are flawed and make mistakes on a regular basis. So how do we have any confidence that our software works?!

UX/Design Practices

Technology: More than a Constraint for User-Centered Design

Software design that ignores the technical landscape is bound to be wrecked by constraints or miss key opportunities to leverage tools and paradigms.

Business Practices

Avoiding Bias in our Job Interviews with Scripts & Personas

A biased interview process can keep you from hiring awesome team members. We're taking action to cut the potential for harmful bias from our interviews.

UX/Design Practices

Information Architecture: A Whole-Team Discipline

IA affects the software, the business model behind it, and the way people interact on all sides of a product. We can't afford to leave team members out.

Personal Optimization

How to Ace the Non-Technical Part of an Atomic Interview

Technical skills are important, but fitting with our team-focused consulting culture matters a lot at Atomic Object.

Project & Team Management

Fighting Project Decision Fatigue with Policy

Policies in the right places can help reduce decision fatigue from making decisions that don't have to be difficult.

Business Practices

First Contact to Offer – Atomic’s Developer Interview Process

An interview is a balancing act—specific questions vs. open-ended conversations, getting to know each other vs. respecting everyone's time, etc.

Ember.js

Improving UI Stability with Ember Data and ArrayProxy

Use Ember's ArrayProxy to improve the user experience on pages that include a list from a hasMany Ember Data relationship.

Ember.js

Ember Actions by Example

A few brief points and examples to help clarify Ember's action bubbling behavior in a few of those less-obvious cases.

Project & Team Management

Zooming Out

Effective problem solving means opening your mind to a broader context surrounding the details of your present focus.

Growing as Makers

Growing Developers and Designers into Leaders

It takes much more than technical skill to bring a complex project to fruition. But what does "leadership" really mean at a place with little hierarchy?

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