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March 25, 2014 in Community

Q&A With Sam Soffes: Learning How to Make an iPhone Photo-Browsing App

What’s more fun than photo-bombing? How about learning to build a mobile app that displays your favorite forays into photography mischievousness? Not into photo-bombing? How about cute puppy photos? Family vacation shots? Your vast collection of selfies? If so, guest…

March 18, 2014 in Learn

Gamepad Controls for HTML5 Games

HTML5 games still have a lot of promises to fulfill, but the W3C gamepad specification is a great example of something that’s going well. The spec is still a working draft, but the prospect of reading game controller data in…

March 17, 2014 in Learn

HTML5 Games: A Land of Broken Hopes and Dreams

A long time ago on a web far far away there was the promise of HTML5 games. Unfortunately, this future still hasn’t come to fruition. In this rumination, I will explore why that is and what hope HTML5 games have…

March 14, 2014 in Learn

Beginner Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

Web design can be tough for a lot of reasons. But the biggest challenge is probably that there are so many ways to approach a problem. Many websites set a bad example for beginners. Even big brands known for quality can…

February 26, 2014 in Learn

How to Make a Website

We have just released a brand new project that teaches you how to make a website! This project focuses on building a portfolio website from the very beginning. If you’ve never built a website before and you have no coding…

February 24, 2014 in Learn

Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Making Websites

I first started making websites when I was 11 years old. My dad showed me how to drag out tables in Microsoft FrontPage and I was hooked (which is now a very outdated technique). It was amazing to me that…

February 17, 2014 in Learn

Hit the Reset Button on Gamification

Building apps is complicated. There’s planning, design, development, deployment, customer service, marketing, legal considerations… Yikes! There are also many additional layers of pervasive challenges: How do you keep people engaged? What’s the best way to onboard new users? To navigate…

February 11, 2014 in Learn

Build a Self-Destructing Message Android App

We have just released a new Android course where you can learn how to build Ribbit, an app that lets users send photo and video messages that “self-destruct” after they’ve been viewed! This is the Android version of the same…

February 5, 2014 in Learn

Tips for Creating a Blank Slate

The blank slate or “empty state” is when an application has no data. In other words, it’s what an app looks like the first time someone uses it. Not only is the blank slate a critical part of UX, but it…

January 28, 2014 in Learn

How to Make a Favicon

One of the most frustrating and confusing elements of modern web design is the favicon. Short for “favorite icon” it’s the little picture you see in browser tabs, address bars, and possibly other places depending on your browser and operating…

January 22, 2014 in Learn

The Best Chrome Extensions for Web Professionals

It’s no secret that web designers and developers love the Google Chrome web browser and Chrome Extensions. The strength of the Chrome Developer Tools make it an excellent choice for web design and development work. The Chrome DevTools provide lots of…

January 15, 2014 in Learn

Managing Dependencies in Objective-C Projects

When working with Objective-C projects in Xcode, you will occasionally want to work with third party libraries. This can be a bit cumbersome as Xcode doesn’t have a clean solution. You can either link a static library, which involves setting…

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