Take a look at what's been Creating ZEAL this week:
In the latest episode of the Creating ZEAL Podcast, Adam Cuppy chats with Sparkbox co-founder Rob Harr about his workshop "Awesome Discovery Projects," and why at the end of the day, projects are really about people experiences.
Listen in as Rob goes through the process of discovery, from setting expectations and problem-solving, to goal setting and project timelines, and discover how putting people first is more important the tech we use.
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Throughout the season, we’ll be talking about personal growth in the lesser-known edges of software. Fun stuff like unique uses of tech in production, DevRel, product management, and so much more ZEAL goodness.
While solutions to the challenges of navigating the new (perhaps imposed) conditions of your working-from-home life are not necessarily simple, there are small things you can do to bring some calm to the storm. One back-to-nature solution: buy a plant.
Check out the latest blog post, just in time for Earth Day! 🌎
At the heart of working with git is branching. It's an essential piece to collaborating with other developers and ensuring that the only code in your master branch is stable, production-ready code. In this video, Amy demonstrates how to create a branch and merge new code into master.
This is part of an entire series about git:
Erik continues working on creating a Twitch chat bot for the Creating Zeal stream. Our first command is !podcast. What commands will be up next?
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A collection of cool stuff the ZEAL team found interesting this week.
Warm-ups are a critical part of the collaborative design process. They're a strategic way to set individuals, the team, and the work up for success. And if you do them consistently, you'll build your team’s awareness muscles. You'll become more self-reflective, tuned-in, empathetic, and intentional about the work you are setting out to do.
The Baymard Institute is an "independent web usability research institute."
The organization was founded on the central thesis that design decisions are often made subjectively or politically, and that a more evidence-based approach is possible.
Baymard has published 250 of their reports for FREE. Each of these contain plenty of evidence based UI recommendations.
Here are a few of our favorites:
Sometimes the best way to learn, or at least solidify what you know, is to actually do it and put it into practice. This is a list of round-ups for frontend challenges where you can put your dev skills to the test.
Are you ready to build something brilliant? We're ready to help.
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