Articles on best practices
How to Present a Design Review
Arguably the most difficult skill you’ll learn in your design career is how to communicate that you did what you set out to do in a way that gets people to support and continue the work you did. Presenting design successfully is about knowing what you want out of the meeting and structuring it to …
Flexing the Rules of Material Design
5 Steps to quickly differentiate your Android app design while being Material Design compliant.
Sinatra Best Practices: Part Two
In Sinatra Best Practices: Part One we saw how to break up your Sinatra application into smaller bite-size pieces. Today, we’re going to explore testing, which will also compel us to address environment configuration.
Sinatra Best Practices: Part One
While Sinatra’s one-file approach may work well for your one-off, smaller application – it can quickly become a mess as you add on multiple routes, route-handlers, helpers, and configuration. So what’s a programmer to do? In reading Sinatra’s documentation I’ve found a few morsels that have enabled us to split our otherwise-monolithic (I realize this …