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userexperiencehub: Design Process Diagram by Todd Warfel

Propaganda and Marketing – Are we still persuading? Copywriting by Copy Hackers Moral of the story: You can create powerful messages using the words your prospects use to complete these phrases: I want ________ I wish someone could ________ If only there was ________ And be careful not to veer into “Don’t you want…?” territory. … because being only plausible and not really truthful means you’re defrauding your audience. [call to

Uncle Bob Martin walks through the “Prime Factors” kata in Java (29m06s) to illustrate the concept of Transformation Priority Premise as a way to address the common complaint about TDD: the brainlessness “As the tests get more specific, the code gets more generic.” … and “here’s the list of transformations” (47m53s): So what are these transformations? Perhaps we can make a list of them: ({}–>nil) no code at all->code that employs nil (nil->constant) (constant->constant+) a simple constant to a more complex constant (constant->scalar) replacing a constant with a variable or an argument (statement->statements) adding more unconditional statements. (unconditional->if) splitting the execution path (scalar->array) (array->container) (statement->recursion) (if->while) (expression->function) replacing an expression with a function or algorithm (variable->assignment) replacing the value of a variable. There are likely others. ...

At Realmac we went this route with Ember, but we built in a slight twist. We try and guide the customer so they can get help or make a feature request rather than leaving a review on the App Store that we can’t respond to. If they are unhappy or confused we want to know about it and help them, if they are happy they can let us know and perhaps more importantly leave a review. ...

Everybody is somebody else’s monster. Greg Knauss (via An Entirely Other Day: The Empathy Vacuum )

36m0s: carry (…) a list of people whose opinions of you matter, and it should be a very short list. — Dr Brené Brown (via The Power of Vulnerability | Memory Hole TV) ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )

gaksdesigns: Artist Joel Rea Oil on Canvas

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Douglas Adams (via High Scalability – 3 Rules that Describe Our Reactions to Technologies)

Immediately after every lecture, meeting, or any significant experience, take 30 seconds — no more, no less — to write down the most important points. Sonra Oku (via The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact — Medium )

Spritz : First, your eyes do not have to move from word to word or around the page that you’re reading. In fact, there’s no longer a page – with Spritz you only need 13 total characters to show all of your content. Fast streaming of text is easier and more comfortable for the reader, especially when reading areas become smaller. (via This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes | Elite Daily )

About | SpriteBuilder SpriteBuilder is the first game development suite for rapidly building native iOS and Android games with Objective-C and Xcode. In 2013, Apportable brought together the maintainers of four of the most popular open source iOS game development projects ( Cocos2D , Cocos3D , CocosBuilder , and Chipmunk ) to create a new, integrated development experience. SpriteBuilder is a free download and the source code is available under the commercially-friendly MIT license (…) ...

How to craft your Elevator Pitch: So, what do you do? [WOW] What do you mean?!? [HOW] [NOW] , for example… Verbal Ping Pong video (by Brian Walter (Extreme Meetings) ) ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )

Favicon Generator – Generate favicon pictures and HTML Generate the favicon pictures and HTML code that work on all major browsers and platforms.

The number of patterns available to communicate information between objects can be overwhelming at first. The choice of which pattern to use often feels ambiguous. But once we investigate each pattern more closely, they all have very unique requirements and capabilities. (via Communication Patterns – Foundation – objc.io issue #7 )

30 Reasons Why James Blunt Won At Twitter In 2013 | The Poke: Marmite pop star James Blunt has been returning perfectly crafted smackdowns at trolls who take a pop at him on Twitter.

(via Backblaze Blog » What Hard Drive Should I Buy? )

Update 2023-07-31: Internet Archive 2023-07-21 App Demo Videos, iOS App Trailers and App Marketing | Apptamin Get more users with a professional app video that promotes your app and explains how it works.

Inspiration is perishable… Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date. Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson (via REWORK: The new business book from 37signals. ) If you want to do something, you’ve got to do it now. You can’t put it on a shelf and wait two months to get around to it. You can’t just say you’ll do it later. Later, you won’t be pumped up about it anymore. ...

Mobile is the next computing platform Benedict Evans (via Whatsapp and $19bn ) … and it is several times larger than the desktop internet.

Convert Photoshop Drop Shadows to CSS3 Box and Text Shadows This tool creates CSS3 Box Shadows based off of Photoshop Drop Shadow settings. After stumbling upon the Recreating Photoshop Drop Shadows in CSS3 and Compass article by Grady Kuhnline, I wanted to build a tool that would allow the rest of us not using Compass to have the same ability to convert for CSS3.