This article, “Just Barely Good Enough (JBGE) Artifacts: An Agile Core Practice” inspired me to write “Just Barely Good Enough” instructions for an app that built. You can spend a lot of time writing detailed instructions when often in the end, it is not necessary. Users are most often tech savvy enough to figure it out and if your app is designed well, it may not need step-by-step instructions. You will simply spend more effort maintaining the content than the value users would get from it.
Category: Resources
UX Design Challenges | UX Tools
Very well written and I can see this resource being used as a launch pad for any UX related project. Find a task, quickly see the pros/cons, caveats AND jump right to the methods to do them effectively and efficiently.
A set of challenges to practice UX design skills.
Source: UX Design Challenges | UX Tools
Toolkit Navigator – Observatory of Public Sector Innovation Observatory of Public Sector Innovation
A plethora of free innovation toolkits, playbooks and guides exist to help people identify, develop and practice necessary skills and apply new ways of reaching an outcome.
Source: Toolkit Navigator – Observatory of Public Sector Innovation Observatory of Public Sector Innovation
How courageous is your business?
Discover how your business rates on our courage scale and in aggregate data points.
Source: Courage | Canada at 175
JavaScript for Designers – video training series
They had me at “tired”….
Source: JavaScript for Designers – video training series
Hey designers! Let me guess, you’re:
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tired of being the “designer that doesn’t know JavaScript”
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tired of copy/pasting bloated JavaScript into your projects
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excited to own the entire front-end experience
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ready to build fully functional HTML prototypes
Simpler R coding with pipes > the present and future of the magrittr package | R-statistics blog
Just started learning R and this post is really well written for a newbie like moi.
This is a guest post by Stefan Milton, the author of the magrittr package which introduces the %>% operator to R programming. Preface (by Tal Galili) I was first introduced to the %>% (a.k.a: pipe) operator in R, thanks
Source: Simpler R coding with pipes > the present and future of the magrittr package | R-statistics blog
This new tool uses Google Maps to calculate a city’s carbon footprint
The Environmental Insights Explorer calculates emissions from buildings, car trips, and public transport to illustrate how a city’s sustainability efforts are faring.
Source: This new tool uses Google Maps to calculate a city’s carbon footprint
ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps
Color Oracle
You can finally walk in colour-blind person’s shoes with this tool.
Color Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. It takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.
Source: Color Oracle
24 Data Viz Sites to Improve Your Next Data Design Project
Examples, resources and inspiration in data visualization
Source: 24 Data Viz Sites to Improve Your Next Data Design Project