I have discussed in the past that we have been on a mission to change the culture, technology, process and experiences at PayPal. 15 months into my adventure here I have never been more excited.
Starting last year we moved away from Java & JSP for rendering our UIs and instead went to JavaScript templating (dust.js), using LESS for our CSS pre-processing, require.js for module dependency, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap and bunch of other open source goodness. In addition,
Indispensable Principles for Debugging - Book Recommendation
User Interface Engineering Disciplines & Skills
One of the first things I did when I joined PayPal was rename the "webdev" to "User Interface Engineering". Now while there is nothing wrong with the title web developer, at PayPal webdevs were considered one step below a "dev".
Changing a title in itself is fairly meaningless. But at the same time names are powerful. Over the last year I believe we have been really growing into the title. Recently I started sketching
List of Mockup/Prototyping Tools
Started keeping a list of these tools. No particular order.
Creately
Axure RP
InVision
Mockingbird
Balsamiq Mockups
Ratchet
Justinmind
HotGloo
FlairBuilder
Mockflow
mocklinkr
Mockabilly
moqups
AppMockupTools
Lean UX & Agile Development. Rationalizing the Two Methodologies
I really enjoy Silicon Valley Code Camp. Lots of speakers, lots of local attendees. Very informal and always a good crowd. No different today. Really engaged audience.
One topic I covered was how Lean UX and Agile work together in harmony. Here is a diagram I shared that I have been using at work to explain how they are related and how they are different.
