Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.
Web Design Trends
Stay ahead of the curve by putting stock in these seven future web design trends.
Free Dynamic DNS
Sandstorm is an open source project that is trying to make it easier to install other open source web applications. They’ve just launched Sandcats, which automatically gives you a domain like alice.sandcats.io, so you don’t have to buy and set up your own domain name.
Stock Photography
Pexels is the best free stock photography in one place. You can use them in any personal or commercial project for free no attribution required.
Emotional Intelligence
EQ, the “emotional intelligence quotient” is an important indicator of how successful people are. These are signs of high emotional intelligence.
Strategic Marketing Campaigns
Here are fifteen marketing strategies that will definitely spark your creative energy.
3 Ways Friction Can Improve Your UX
Is a “frictionless” user experience always good? Well… it depends. You need to understand the relationship between friction and incentive for your user base and how it applies to their context.
Typography Cheatsheet
Quickly reference proper usage of typographical characters like quotation marks, hyphens, accents, and more.
How to Name Things
A good presentation on what conventions to use and what not to use when naming functions and variables in your code.
The 10 Commandments of Web Forms
10 very useful tips to make your web forms more user friendly and functional.