It’s a sunny day, you are sitting in front of your desk in a mid-to-large company, thinking about some everyday problems in your job, and suddenly you have an interesting thought – what if I could solve my problems with some digital magic?
I have a lot of helpful tools stored in many different collections, among others an abysmal Pinterest catalog with a very generic label: “Design.“ While saving pins is fairly straightforward, searching for the exact item might be quite challenging. All tools from the same category have similar names and keywords; color tools’ names are usually variations of “color“ or “palette.“
I used to identify my favorite color system tool by appearance, but ColorBox changed the interface, leaving me helpless for a while. I decided to convert my frustration into a side project — a flat list of color tools with screenshots and a list of features as several of them have some unique ones. Feel free to search this list and use the tools to color the world!
The whole product experience is a cumulative effort of diverse project roles and talents, not a ’rockstar soloist.’ Even though some of them might represent two opposite ends of a spectrum – like designers and developers – they have more in common than one might expect.
Furthermore, they can benefit from both opening up to each other’s perspectives even more and following the same common principles for better teamwork. With that in mind, here are some insights to help improve designer-developer relationships, and hence better product design.
Recently, more and more Python applications have been built based on async communication using the asyncio library that allows a programmer to write concurrent code with async/await syntax. This tutorial shows how to connect to the PostgreSQL database within an asynchronous environment using SQLAlchemy and asyncio.
Nowadays, especially in the IT world, many things need to be continuous. You might have heard of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment or Continuous Delivery; in fact, a lot of IT vendors are adopting them. But are these only yet more buzzwords without any real value?
As any other machinery, it is an asset that depreciates in value over time. Read more if you are considering purchase or development of a software product.
