Lean, agile, do more with less. Again, and again, design culture urges us to move quickly and trim research and design operations to the point where design becomes a mere thread in the larger corporate spool. Author and designer Nikki Anderson explains the consequences of this pressure to conduct research at lightning speed: "When we're asked to synthesize at the speed of light, user research becomes a way for teams to take a shortcut — to invent assumptions based on quickly made correlations, opinions, and quotes.

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I wrote Don't Ever use Symfony Listeners 2 months ago (if you missed it, be sure to read it to better understand this 2nd part). It got many constructive comments, mostly focused on particular standalone sentences without context. To my surprise, none of the comments shown that listener beat...

Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular source code editors for web developers. It was released in 2015 by Microsoft and offers many awesome features you can... The post 12 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Web Developers appeared first on Onextrapixel.

This week's Designer News - No 540 - includes A Complete Guide to CSS Functions, Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS, YouTube Sans: The Making of a Typeface, Blush Illustrations, a Font (Scunthorpe Sans) That Blocks Foul Language, Modern CSS Solutions for Old CSS Problems and a lot more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 540 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The Pineco.de blog has a new tutorial posted that the Laravel users out there will find particularly useful. In their latest post, they introduce some basic Eloquent searching techniques that can be used to easily locate data via currently available Eloquent functionality. When our app is smaller - for example at the beginning - it's enough to apply small, handmade solutions. It's true for database searching as well. It's not necessary to pull in a package instantly. Most of the time we can use some simple techniques to perform searches in Eloquent. [...] Searching is a vital part of any application. A good interface helps the user to retrieve the information it needs. So it's essential to bring a good solution both on front-end and back-end. In this post, we are not covering any UI or front-end related topics. [...] So for now, let's talk about MySQL and Eloquent only. In the post, they share a few methods for searching data that don't require any additional service or package. They're mostly just taking advantage of features the MySQL database supports but they're showing how to use them in a Laravel environment: simple "where" clauses using the fuzzy matching of the "like" keyword searching JSON columns by a "path" using "sounds like" to find similar values Each item on the list comes with a few lines of code showing how to use it via an Eloquent model and a brief explanation of what's happening behind the scenes in the database.

User experience (UX) research is drawing the attention of many companies and accurate UX research methods are questioned. Before we start to explain how to conduct UX research, we need to simply ask this question: What is user experience (UX) research? Hint: It is more than just finding some good research interview questions. USER EXPERIENCE...

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Do you feel the same way I do? I love WordPress plugins and I’m always excited to find out all about the interesting features new plugins offer. Every month, I go for a deep dive into the free WordPress plugins directory to return with the newest and most interesting plugins for you. So that your website can stick out of the other websites in the Google universe with its cool features. 1 – WP Event Map This plugin allows you to create events and display them on a Google Map. All the information on the events can be listed via shortcode. Developer: saurav.rox Work in progress: yes Latest version from: 02.17.2016 Costs: free on WordPress.org License: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Known compatibilty issues: unknown Developer homepage: unknown Download on WordPress.org 2 – Techxplorer’s Plugin Listicle This nifty little plugin allows you to list your active plugins somewehere on your website. That allows you to give “love” back to the authors of the plugins by linking their plugins. The authors of the used plugins will like that. A simple shortcode is all it takes to generate the list. Developer: techxplorer Work in progress: yes Latest version from: 02.17.2016 Costs: free on WordPress.org License: GNU GENERAL […]* You might also be interested in the following articles10 Fresh WordPress Plugins to Start the Year WithDecember 2015: Ten Free WordPress Plugins to Revamp Your BlogFree WordPress Plugins: The Top10 of November 2015Ten Fresh Free WordPress Plugins in October 2015Two Fresh Solutions for Code Display in WordPressNew and Unspent: 10 Fresh Free WordPress Plugins (Edition: May 2015)

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