In 2011, Elaine McVicar wrote an article describing the process of designing one of the first complex responsive sites. Now that the concept is no longer in its infancy, we're taking another look at how to redesign a large scale responsive site.
Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.
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The best designers employ specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles when they work. Here are a few of them.
📚 Papers & tech blogs by companies sharing their work on data science & machine learning in production. - eugeneyan/applied-ml
In 2017, I went to Facebook on a sabbatical from my faculty position at Yale. I created a team to build a storage system called Delos at the bottom of the Facebook stack (think of it as Facebook’s version of Chubby). We hit production with a 3-person team in less than a year…
Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that helps teams wait less and ship more, without losing out on feedback.
Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.
A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.
Have you ever heard of SEMA? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about six years just to understa…
Guidelines for Maintainable Tests
A look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve (certain) business problems with hospitality, and that it only takes a little thoughtfulness to do so.
Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.