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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…

Erik Bryn breaks down some of the latest and greatest changes coming in Ember 2.0 and how you can start preparing to update your application for the transition:…

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…

One of the biggest buzzwords in innovation today is empathy. If you aren’t able to walk a mile in your customer’s shoes then you won’t be able to innovate. It’s as simple as that. Sometimes this is really easy to do. Your life might be directly impacted by the product that you are designing or you…

If your line of work involves solving complex problems then you probably know by now that you can’t solve the problem alone. That means you’re going to need to get some feedback. At this point you also probably know whether your company values feedback. Luckily for us, I’ve heard the expression “Feedback is a gift!” enough times…