Building a Shared Language
A process to help understand clients and the industry you’re designing for
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Experience Economy, user interviews, and design discovery
The principle of customer sacrifice illustrates how a discovery process can reveal new opportunities.
Optimizing Your Elixir and Phoenix projects with ETS
Learn how to optimize your elixir applications with a fast in-memory store
Five Business Problems Progressive Web Apps Solve
Progressive Web Apps are not only a forward thinking technology but also an answer to issues that businesses face on a daily basis.
What type of business problem are we solving?
The decision about where a problem & solution belong within a business is as important as execution and quality.
Improving Ember app page load times using the App Shell model
Experimenting with the App Shell model to make the DockYard.com website load faster
How GenServer deals with errors in a concurrent environment
GenServer can help deal with race conditions, deadlocks, and many edge cases
Making a DDAU checkbox list in Ember.js
Use Data Down, Actions Up to create a simple Checkbox List UI element in Ember
Live Search with Ember & JSON API
Build a JSON API-compliant live search using Ember and Phoenix/Rails
When you could turn a bug into a feature
Understand why quirky behaviors are happening
The Role of Discovery Phases and Design Sprints
Understanding what they are and when to use them
How to Contribute to Ember
A brief guide on how to contribute to open source software
Retiring Ember Suave
Following the merge of JSCS with ESLint, `ember-suave` now has a new successor.
Understanding Ember's resolver
An introduction to how Ember's resolver works
KISS by Example: Authorization in Phoenix
A short example of authorization in Phoenix to show how modules, functions, and pattern matching can easily fill a common web application need.
Deep Work - Lessons I will apply to UX Design
When should you schedule deep vs. shallow work for a UX design team?
What design discovery feels like
Sometimes your job is to do the figuring-out so others can start building and designing the actual thing.
The minimum knowledge you need to start Metaprogramming in Elixir
Metaprogramming Elixir
Pieces of Ember: Part 1
How to leverage the Ember ecosystem without the Ember ecosystem
Using Ecto Changesets for HTML input validations
Leverage the power of Phoenix to utilize your Ecto changeset validations as input validations in your HTML forms