Category: Resources

Just Barely Good Enough Instructions

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.

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

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:

  • tired of being the “designer that doesn’t know JavaScript”

  • tired of copy/pasting bloated JavaScript into your projects

  • excited to own the entire front-end experience

  • 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

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