user-experience
User Testing from a Tradeshow Booth
April 18, 2017
There is nothing more rewarding than watching people use your app and seeing how they interact with it. User testing is a lot like making dinner for someone; you choose a recipe, ingredients, and...
3 Ways Knitting and Web Design Go Hand-in-Hand
January 11, 2017
After a technology-filled day at work, one of my favorite ways to relax is to sit with my dog and knit something. I love the tactile qualities of fiber. I can create something both appealing and...
The 4 Values That Make Bitovi’s Design Team Different
February 15, 2016
Lots of design teams can create attractive and functional apps. So what makes Bitovi's design team special?
10 Best Practices for Usability Testing within Agile Teams
November 4, 2015
While doing usability test on a project is a no brainer, it can be challenging to make it part of a fast-moving Agile environment. To overcome this challenge here are 10 best practices you can start...
Designing Configurable Interfaces
August 26, 2015
When designing web and mobile apps, we aren’t fully delivering experiences that allow the user to control the interface in a way that makes sense to them. We talk about delighting the user and having...
Style Guide Driven Development: A How To Guide To Improve your Development Workflow
July 8, 2015
Style Guide Driven Development (SGDD) is a fairly new term I first heard from Nicole Sullivan’s talk about her experience on a project for Pivotal Labs. But thinking about some more, I realized SGDD...
Embrace 7 Principles of Universal Design for Better Website Design
July 2, 2015
People have been studying design for ages, but we rarely see much crossover in the design fields (e.g., graphic design, web/app design, interior design, industrial design, advertising, film)....
Live Style Guides for Teams, Powered by DocumentJS
May 14, 2015
A team with both designers and developers needs a simple resource to share a project's styles and best practices. DocumentCSS generates a Live Style Guide so style documentation evolves along with...
Combining Documentation with Prototypes
December 29, 2014
UX designers have long used documentation as a means of communicating functionality and interaction for digital products. It has been successful for a long time and thousands of digital goods have...
The On-Going Benefits of Having a UX Designer
November 20, 2014
This is a follow-up to my previous post on the value of having a user experience designer on every project from the perspective of our own process at Bitovi.
8 Best Practices for Perfect CSS Documentation
In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients. Also, if it’s your first time documenting code, it can be difficult...
Envato Tuts + Article
The Key to Building Large JavaScript Apps: The Modlet Workflow
You're a developer working on a "large JavaScript application" and you've noticed some issues on your project. New team members struggle to find where everything is located...
CSS-Tricks Article
Streaming Data with Fetch() and NDJSON
Streams are trickling into the scene as we search for ways to improve performance. What if instead of waiting for our entire ajax response to complete, we could start showing...
David Walsh Blog Article
Free Web App Checklist
We use a set of checklists to keep us on track and ensure reproducible quality on every project.
