News & Events • Aug 19, 2024 Themes from the 2024 Advanced Manufacturing Expo I attended the 2024 Advance Manufacturing Expo in Grand Rapids, Mich. to hear more about new developments in manufacturing technology.
UX/Design Techniques • Aug 18, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 12 – Visualize the Vote Ever been stuck in a meeting where you can’t gain consensus or get past a team member with a strong opinion? Dot voting is a great approach.
UX/Design Techniques • Aug 17, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 11 – Speed Boat Speed Boat is a design thinking activity to help frame obstacles holding back your project's success. Inject a bit of fun into your process!
Growing as Makers • Aug 16, 2024 Why I Switched to Walking Standups Being outside is awesome (duh), and the walking standup is a great way to make a daily micro-improvement on that front.
Culture • Aug 15, 2024 Bereavement Leave on Day One: A Testament to Company Culture Even before my official first day of work, I discovered that Atomic Object truly lives up to the culture they describe.
Development Practices • Aug 14, 2024 4 Tips for Writing More Testable Code I recently paired with a developer new to automated testing and shared tips I've picked up over the years on how to write more testable code.
React / Redux • Aug 13, 2024 Tips for Using React Testing Library to Write Unit Tests These are my top tips for anyone using the React Testing Library package for their unit tests. I hope they help you avoid major pain points.
Web Apps • Aug 12, 2024 Embed Payload CMS 3.0 Admin UI in Your Next.js App Here's how to integrate Payload CMS 3.0 beta with a Next.js application and embed the Payload CMS Admin UI in your Next.js web application.
UX/Design Techniques • Aug 11, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 10 – Affinity Mapping An affinity diagram/map is an easy-to-make physical, tactile, and editable tool that can help you see trends and areas of opportunity.
UX/Design Techniques • Aug 10, 2024 Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 9 – Rose, Bud, Thorn Rose, Bud, Thorn is a useful representation of a day-in-a-life. We've used it to annotate breakpoints, improvement opportunities, and more.
Culture • Aug 09, 2024 Comparison: Employee Investing in Professional Services vs. Startups Atomic is set up as a pass-through legal entity with employee owners who can own shares in our private business entity.
React / Redux • Aug 08, 2024 Dynamically Generate Responsive Form Fields in React The Dynamic Form Field component should ideally be able to render different types of form fields based on the provided props.
