Fuse news
AppStax announces Fuse SDK
AppStax just released their first SDK for Fuse, delivering data storage, server-side code, hosting and realtime communication between their AppStax hosted backends and Fuse apps. Read their implementation guide and get the code from their Github.
appstax.com
News
Android – Nougat is here!
Made for you. With more ways to make Android your own, Android Nougat is our sweetest release yet. See all deatails in the full announcement blog post.
android.com
Principle 2.0
Components and a changed license/updated model introduced in Principle 2.0.
principleformac.com
Design & UX
Sketch: A Perfect Icon workflow
Sketch doesn’t offer a good solution for managing icons. So, I spent some time building an icon workflow to make it far simpler to use an icon library in all my projects. My solution uses only one symbol, one artboard and one icon font.
medium.com
Development
Testing, for people who hate testing
I love having tests. I hate writing them. It’s tedious. It’s boring. It’s hard, sometimes harder than writing the code. Worst of all, it doesn’t feel like it accomplishes anything. So I usually don’t do it. I know, I know. I should do it. I should also get more exercise and eat more vegetables. Here’s the best way I’ve found to make test smoothies. I’ll even deliberately avoid any testing jargon, since no one can agree on what any of it means anyway.
eev.ee
You SHOULD Learn Vanilla JavaScript Before JS Frameworks
So what's the point here? It's that I took enough time to understand the core principles of JavaScript before using shortcuts provided by JS frameworks and libraries. And why is that important? Well, this is what this post is about: not just pretending.
snipcart.com
Resources
Everything You Wanted to Know About CTA Buttons
So, as the second part of the Email Design Trends of 2016 article, I took every email submitted to ReallyGoodEmails.com in 2016 and broke down their CTA buttons. I logged multiple data points for each email to learn everything I could about what people were doing with their branded buttons. It was pretty tedious. It sucked. I kept telling myself: “Do it for the children!”
medium.com
Workflow & Strategy
Designing Data with Sketch
As a designer of numerous web and mobile applications that require different types of data to be summarized and presented in the clearest possible way, I’ve spent more than 2,000 hours designing in Sketch since making the switch from Adobe Fireworks. Most of that time was spent messing around with the visuals of tables, line charts, pie charts and other graphs. In this article, I want to share my insights and some time-saving techniques for use when designing data-heavy interfaces with Sketch.
ivomynttinen.com
Geeking out
'Neural network' spotted deep inside Samsung's Galaxy S7 silicon brain
One thing that caught our eye was a mention that the branch predictor uses a neural network to take a good guess at the twists and turns the software will take through its code. If your CPU can predict accurately which instructions an app is going to execute next, you can continue priming the processing pipeline with instructions rather than dumping the pipeline every time you hit a jump.
theregister.co.uk