By Treyce Meredith on
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Design, Process
It’s a simple idea that can help your digital product take shape; when a user enters your system, do you hand them a map or a path? What’s the difference? Great question, and in this case, the metaphor is pretty literal.
By Will Ockelmann-Wagner on
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Development, JavaScript
In smaller projects, React offers snappy performance – the virtual DOM diffing means updates can happen quickly and for the most part, things just work. But, particularly when you’re dealing with large data sets, things can bog down as every render loop causes many unnecessary renders of components which have not actually changed.
React Dev Tools comes with a profiler that can help pin down the problem, and React 16.8 came with some features to make it easier to improve performance of functional components. But to use these tools effectively you need to know what the problem is and how to find the culprit.
By Jen Skene on
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Events, Product Management
“Data is ubiquitous technology. We’re constantly collecting it, manipulating it, and trying to monetize it.” – Jess Starr, Product Manager, Okta
Carbon Five San Francisco hosted Product Talk Night to discuss the different ways data and business intelligence can impact product development and business growth. Our guest speakers included:
By Sarah Port on
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Development, Open Source
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the open source community, you’re probably familiar with GitHub issues. Issues are a fantastic way to organize the discussion around bugs and feature development in a codebase, and it’s common for open source projects to rely on issues to communicate actionable chunks of work to contributors. This practice is ubiquitous in open source repositories on GitHub, and with the help of issue labels and milestones, issues have supported the development of tons of projects and technologies.
By Will Ockelmann-Wagner on
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Development, JavaScript
Earlier this year, React added the powerful new Hooks feature. Hooks allow you to ditch class components and stick with functional components, even when you need local state and lifecycle methods. They also make it much easier to extract logic from one component and share it with others.
By Treyce Meredith on
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Design, Process
So you want to grow your product? That’s super awesome. Growth is often a goal that startups rush towards.
“We need 100,000 monthly active users yesterday.” – random startup person
Growth can mean a lot of things. Maybe you’re trying to grow the number of users, or increase time spent using your product. Whatever it is, growth usually means moving metrics. But meeting your growth goal takes a very meticulous and strategic design process. You need to try out ideas and see what actually works. In this article, I am going to share how to set up a successful experiment-driven design process that can help you identify the features and changes to grow your product. Let’s grow!
By Carbon Five on
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Announcements, News
We’re excited to announce our 2019 partnership with Techstars NYC today. Since 2017, Carbon Five has run workshops and directly mentored dozens of startups and first time entrepreneurs at the Techstars programs in Atlanta, Seattle and NYC.
By Nancy Samahito on
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Design, Events, San Francisco
The primary function of design is to make something useful. Unfortunately, many digital products out on the market have been developed without universal accessibility in mind. As designers, we have the unique opportunity — and responsibility — to help shape the next generation of inclusive and accessible technology.
By Lo Wheelwright on
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Design, Everything Else, User Research
It is a delight to use software that seems to really ‘get’ you as a person! To achieve this, it requires that the software has been built by people who sought out to understand their users. When software isn’t built with its users in mind, it has the potential to leave its users feeling alienated. In this post, we’ll be exploring a seemingly simple item we often put on forms that is very easy to get wrong: the gender field.
By Wil Wade on
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Events
Wil Wade, senior developer at Carbon Five, will be speaking at QCon New York on June 25. His talk on thinking in systems focuses on understanding the context of this complexity through the patterns and structures around us; a perfect complement to Agile’s small iterable steps.
This interview was originally published on QCon New York.