Software Designing

Key Takeaways Product teams, CI/CD, automated testing and IT are working closely with the business. However, where are your data scientists and ML engineers? Bring them closer as well – but there is no need to call it DevMLOps, ok? Data…
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There are a number of debates about which additional skills designers should learn. Should designers code, write, or understand business? These skills are incredibly valuable but perhaps not essential. However, I would argue that every…
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I come here not to bury img, but to praise it. Well, mostly. Historically, I like img just fine. It’s refreshingly uncomplicated, on the surface: it fires off a request for the file in its src attribute, renders the contents of that file,…
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My first contribution to Bootstrap was a tiny line of CSS. It was a no-brainer to merge, but the feeling of seeing that bit of code in the project’s codebase was unreal and addictive. You may think that open source is not for you. After…
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If you’ve spent enough time developing for the web, this piece of feedback has landed in your inbox since time immemorial: “This photo looks blurry. Can we replace it with a better version?” Every time this feedback reaches me, I’m inclined…
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A note from the editors: We’re excited to share Chapter 1 of Going Offline by Jeremy Keith, available this month from A Book Apart. Businesses are built on the web. Without the web, Twitter couldn’t exist. Facebook couldn’t exist. And not…
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A note from the editors: We’re pleased to share an excerpt from Chapter 7 (“Reflecting”) of Planning for Everything: The Design of Paths and Goals by Peter Morville, available now from Semantic Studios. Once upon a time, there was a happy…
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A note from the editors: We’re pleased to share an excerpt from Chapter 2 (“The Design Constraint of All Meetings”) of Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone by Kevin Hoffman, available now from Two Waves. Jane is a “do it…
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A note from the editors: We’re pleased to share an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Tim Brown’s Flexible Typesetting, from A Book Apart. Typesetting is the most important part of typography, because most text is meant to be read, and typesetting…
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My first full-time developer job was at a small company. We didn’t have BrowserStack, so we cobbled together a makeshift device lab. Viewing a site I’d been making on a busted first-generation iPad with an outdated version of Safari, I saw…
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