Ben Haefele

Last month David Adkin and I flew to New York to attend SmashingConf, an annual design conference hosted by Smashing Magazine. As with most conferences, the event kicked off with a laser show: (you can check out the full video here) Our minds suitably blown, the event moved into a series of talks about the design process itself. Session 1…

About a year ago, we made the switch from Scrum to Kanban. One of the reasons we made the switch was finally being able to abandon Story Points. First, some background on Story Points: Story Points are a key element of planning in Scrum. For every story (or feature), the development team is asked to rate how difficult the story…

As 2014 was wrapping up and many of us began thinking personally about what would make good resolution fodder for 2015, our team made what will hopefully be one of the most intentional and impactful design decisions for the future of our product. We decided to adopt Material Design. Briefly, Material Design is a design “language” developed by Google as…