UX/Design Practices The Power of Prototyping in Design, Part 2: Best Practices for Prototyping We will explore best practices for prototyping and how it can influence the direction of your designs as well as your overall user experience.
UX/Design Practices The Power of Prototyping in Design, Part 1: Turn Ideas into User-Centric Solutions Prototyping is an indispensable tool in a designer's toolkit that transforms ideas into solutions through visualization and rapid iteration
Figma Build an Almost Functional Search Bar to Use in Your Figma Prototypes Learn how to build a search bar in Figma that accepts keystrokes and mimics the experience of a user typing in real-time!
UX/Design Tools 3 Tips for Effective Prototyping Micro-interactions in Figma Design and prototyping tool Figma is an all-in-one solution Here are some tips for improving micro-interaction prototypes.
Ruby Ruby FFI for Quick Prototyping A quick example of using FFI in Ruby to wrap HID API to talk to a USB HID device in Windows.
Developer Tools Making Diagrams with graphviz graphviz is a great tool for creating quick diagrams. It can automatically create diagrams from its simple markup language, DOT.
UX/Design Tools Why I Use Keynote as a Design Tool Keynote is a powerful, lightweight tool, and I use it for many projects — from storyboards and user scenarios to process flows and visual frameworks.
UX/Design Tools Rapid Prototyping with Middleman and Bootstrap As a designer, I think it's important to be able to prototype in the browser. Using Middleman and Bootstrap allows me to work independently from developers.
UX/Design Tools Storyboarding with Inkscape and OmniGraffle Expedient sketching and document layout using a combination of tools such as Inkscape, OmniGraffle and Rake.
UX/Design Practices Designing Around an Experience By understanding the context, motivations, and desires of the person using the product, I can better determine how to design the details.
iOS / OS X iOS Mirroring and Programmatic Airplay Selection iOS Mirroring and Programmatic airplay selection can be done using private APIs in the MediaPlayer.framework.
Objective-C Simple Network Prototyping in Objective-C Cocoa’s networking APIs can be a bit cumbersome, so I wrote a simple asynchronous wrapper around NSURLConnection.