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Design Systems Help Organizations Respond to Disruptions Like COVID-19
With a design system in place, digital teams don’t have to work from scratch every time the business is presented with a new problem to solve.
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EstateSpace Works with Cantina to Create Innovative FinTech App
FinTech startup EstateSpace helps families inventory and manage their physical assets.
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Article Round-up: Cantina Working Groups
Cantina Working Groups stay on top of emerging trends and function as an R&D engine to explore and capture skills and abilities. Here's what they've written for our blog recently.
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Designing for Laughter: Can We Build an App to Improve Local Comedy?
Associate Designer Wendy Schiller immersed herself in Boston’s comedy scene to see if she could improve how comedians get to know each other, and promote themselves online.
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Lessons from Zoom on Privacy and Security
The discovery of this Zoom flaw provides a master class in how not to think about privacy and security.
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Making Security Applicable: Reflections on the Iowa Caucus Voting App and Public Awareness in 2020
A conversation among some Cantina Data Privacy and Security Working Group members on why security is important in our personal and public lives.
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Ed Tech Roundup: LearnLaunch 2020
A roundup of hot topics in education technology: mobile, AI, data and mixed reality.
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Working with Structured and Unstructured Data
A case study on the value of storing both structured and unstructured data in the same database.
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The 10 Blog Posts That Mattered in 2019
A list of articles that proved most popular with our readers in 2019.
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Machine Learning Kit for Android: Cantina Tested, Cantina Approved
Firebase ML Kit is a new SDK from Google that allows mobile developers to use the power of machine learning in their apps. Out of the box features include text and language recognition, barcode scanning, image and even landmark recognition.
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That’s Not a Thing, It’s A Service - Part 2
As smart things get even smarter, hardware that can benefit from being connected will likely become so, and with that will usually come some form of service.
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Making Accessible Digital Products
Learn how to incorporate accessibility best practices for the good of your customers, product, and team.
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NormaTec Debuts Best-in-Class Mobile Experience for Customers
Debuting an innovative mobile experience for PULSE 2.0 and PULSE PRO 2.0 Recovery Systems.
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Taking the Pulse on Connected Health Adoption Worldwide
Adoption in the U.S. continues to grow but how does it compare in other countries?
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From Retail Tomorrow to eTail East: A Crystal Ball for Retailers
Cantina covers trends discussed at this summer’s Retail Tomorrow and eTail East shows, highlighting key takeaways to help brands navigate digital transformation.
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Top Takeaways from SwiftFest 2019
SwiftFest is a community-driven conference focused on the Swift programming language and development for Apple’s platforms.
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Sign In with Apple is a Big Win for Data Privacy
Apple’s new sign in approach stops third-party sites and services from getting your information.
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Kotlin/Native: Naughty or Nice?
Kotlin/Native is a new product from JetBrains using the Kotlin language and it's a big deal.
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Top Takeaways from DroidCon 2019
DroidCon is a global conference focused on the engineering of applications built on top of Android.
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Critical Decision Points to Maintain an Agile Architecture
Strategies to plan for your project's technical design and growth.
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When Building For the Web, Don’t Forget the Front-end
Help your engineering team work faster and spend more time shipping quality code.
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Insights from World Information Architecture Day Boston 2019
Unique perspectives and stories regarding the theme; “Design for Difference”.
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Kotlin Office Hours at Cantina Consulting
Recapping talks from January's meetup.
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Mind the Gap: The Ultimate Problem Big Tech Should Solve
We must make sure people aren't forgotten about in this new tech era.
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Streamline Mobile App Deployments with React Native & Over-The-Air Updates
A quick look at a useful React Native feature.
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What Can Be Done About Null?
The different ways programming languages are addressing the problem of null.
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Getting started with Spring Boot, JOOQ, Flyway, and ModelMapper
A guide to setting up a Spring Boot project configured with JOOQ and Flyway.
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Re/act: E-scooters, Hearables, and Digital Wallets
Our weekly blog series recapping the tech world's most relevant and compelling stories curated by humans not bots.
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Deciding Between React Native and Native Code For Your Next Project
Outlining the pros and cons for businesses looking to develop mobile products.
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Blockchain Untethered: The Benefits of Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency
Blockchain. Everyone is talking about it, but how can it help you address your specific business needs and deliver more value to your bottom-line and customers?
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Design Systems: Who Uses Them, and What Value They Deliver to Organizations
A conversation among consultants on Brad Frost's article on how Sketch libraries are not design systems.
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Consistently Inconsistent: When the Most Accessible Experience is Different for Each User
Learn about external consistency, and why it is so important.
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Web Performance Part 2: Reducing Page Load Time
We can’t control our customers’ internet speeds, but we can control the efficiency of the content we provide.
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Web Performance - Evaluating Web Performance: Part 1
There are so many factors that affect web performance. Where do I start?
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A PostCSS Plugin is your Multitool to Solve CSS Problems
The versatility of PostCSS allows for custom-made solutions to thorny CSS issues.
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Embracing Change by Learning New ES6 Features: Part 2
An introduction to JavaScript's latest major upgrade for developers who have been dragging their feet about it.
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Front Conference Recap 2017
Digital Products and Design Highlights from Salt Lake City.
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Embracing Change by Learning New ES6 Features: Part 1
An introduction to JavaScript's latest major upgrade for developers who have been dragging their feet about it.
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Q&A: David Delmar on Investing Your Creative Energy In Tech
An interview with Resilient Coder Executive Director and Founder David Delmar on investing your creative energy in tech.
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Batch Create Symbols: A Useful plugin for Sketch
A plugin to speed up the process when having to a create a bunch of symbols at once.
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Form Errors Screen Readers Can Access
When a sighted user submits an invalid form they are usually given visual error messaging that tells them what is wrong. The same should be done for a screen reader user.
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Cantina Report: Intelligent Bots & Conversational UIs for Financial Services
Empower your organization by integrating intelligent bot technologies into your current business systems. Download our free report to find out how.
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Three Ways to Win with Onboarding
Grab your users by the emotions before you can reach them with facts or features. Three ways to apply neuromarketing principles to onboarding.
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Designing and Engineering Better Teams to Build Better Products
Let’s All Be Awesome Together.
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Make Your Next Redesign Your Last
By keeping a team focused on iterative cycles of research and design, companies can minimize the need for large-scale redesign projects.
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Prototyping with Codeship and Firebase
A workflow for building and deploying code-based prototypes using Codeship and Firebase.
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Bridging the Gap Between Design & Front-end Architecture
A conversation among consultants on Brad Frost's article on CSS Architecture for Design Systems.
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How to Choose a Team to Build Your Mobile App
The Definitive Guide to hiring a team to build your mobile experience.
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Stop Making Me Sign Up
A look at how popular apps like Airbnb, Hotel Tonight and YouTube are welcoming new users.
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Building a Better Button in CSS
Buttons are the cornerstone of every interface—you use them every day and probably never give them a second thought.
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Mobile Prototyping: One Tool or Many?
With so many tools available how do you pick the best one for your next project?
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Key Insights: Bosch ConnectedWorld IoT Conference
Lessons Learned from our time at the Bosch ConnectedWorld Conference.
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Responsive Video for the Modern Web
When considering responsive design, we must be mindful of how video content is displayed.
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No headphone jack. Less waterproof than a Samsung Galaxy. Lame.
Apple is always thinking about the future. And the new iPhone reflects the company’s long view.
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Instituting a Culture of Accessibility in Your Organization: Part 2
How to bake processes into your organization to build a solid foundation for accessibility efforts.
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Designing Simple Navigation Systems for Large Sites
Simple navigation systems are like a sailor’s north star, providing direction amidst an otherwise overwhelming sea of information.
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Need an App and a Website? Build a Responsive Web App Instead
How to know when a web app is the right choice for the customer experience.
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Why You Need a Reference Architecture
Agile doesn’t mean “no plan.” Your reference architecture - how the components of the final product relate and work together - will guide you through the process.
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Questions to Start an iOS Project
Ask the experts: Answering these questions at the beginning of an iOS project will reduce problems later on.
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Organizational Buy-In on Responsive Design
A lot of nuance comes with a Responsive redesign. Here's how to get your organization pointed in the right direction.
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Modular CSS / Atomic Design in the Enterprise
The shift from designing and building full screens to reusable components has begun, and it's not just for small startups looking to be nimble and quick.
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Five Key Ingredients in Successful Mobile Projects
It’s not enough to simply exist in the mobile space. You must create mobile products that captivate your customers and keep them coming back.
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Instituting a Culture of Accessibility in Your Organization: Part 1
Rather than viewing accessibility as one part of a well-made, maintainable product, view it as an essential ingredient that makes a product better in measurable ways and helps meet other important goals.
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Creating Effective Mobile Experiences
Writing mobile apps is easier than ever, but enterprises need to prioritize design and UX if they want to impress their audience.
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Delivering Responsive at Scale
Delivering responsive redesign projects at large scale enterprises is hard, but not impossible with modern processes and methods.
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What is Technical Design?
The easiest way to eliminate technical debt is to avoid it in the first place. Is your technical design enterprise-grade?
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Responsive in 2016
Responsive design has been around for half a decade so why aren't more websites adopting it?
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Agile without a Full-Time Product Manager
Some project owners avoid agile because it puts them in the PM role. Learn how to make decisions and rely on your team to fill the gaps.
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Battery Status API: We Need to Talk
The ability to access more of your device's information (and therefore more information about you) is coming.
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220 Screens: How to Stay Organized with Your Designs
On an enterprise project your design can unravel with each new screen - here's how to keep it. clean!
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Sketching for UX Designers [Infographic]
A beginners guide on various sketching methods and techniques for designing digital interfaces and experiences.
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Understanding Your Customers
Research, empathy, and understanding. Three basic principles that make up the beginnings of a well executed design process.
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A Speaker's Perspective on HTML5 Conference
Cantina's own Mike Kivikoski shares his experience at the HTML5 Conference.
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I’ll Make an Exception Just For You
Using the EXCEPTION comment to help maintain mature, large-scale Sass projects.
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Teaching Python and Git at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Cantina's own Janet Riley co-taught a software workshop to a group scientists to help them do data work more efficiently.
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Five Commands to Speed Up Development
Make sure your project has these five basic commands.
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That PostCSS. It’s so hot right now
Web developers suffer from the worst kind of imposter syndrome.
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The Forgotten Five: Common Design Omissions that Wreck UX
While seemingly small, these frequently forgotten design considerations have huge impact on user experience.
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Three Days with the Apple Watch
More experiences trying out the hot new thing.
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Adding Interactivity to the Xcode Build Process
Getting Xcode to involve you in its decisions.
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JOOQ: A Happy Medium Between ORMs and JDBC
JOOQ is a code generation and SQL data access library for Java that provides all the benefits of ORMs without the impedance mismatch.
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Minimalist Java Web Applications
Your Java web application doesn't have to be built on massive enterprise-y frameworks.
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Investing in Experience Design Pays Off in Customer Satisfaction
Why experience design pays off in in customer satisfaction and the key considerations in creating top-notch experiences.
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Mobile is Dead; Long Live Mobile
To develop for the future is to develop for mobile.
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Switching and Jobs to Be Done: Discovering Why People Really Hire Products
My key takeaways for conducting successful customer interviews to uncover why folks hire and fire products and services.
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Rapid Product Design in the Real World With #JTBD
The persona is the villain in this story. It clouds us from discovering the true needs of your customers.
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Understanding Design Fidelity for Creating a Great Product Experience
Design fidelity refers to the level of details and functionality built into a prototype.
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The Future of Ecommerce is Simpler & Faster
Ecommerce systems of the future will be constructed using performance first methodologies to provide users with simpler and faster experiences.
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Cantina White Paper: 2013 Technology Trends: The Experience Trumps the Device
Every business has some sort of mobile presence, but the next stage of mobile development takes a more user-centric approach.
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Scaling your App with Message Oriented Decoupled Architecture
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iOS 5 Native Scrolling–Grins & Gotchas
When Apple released iOS 5 last year, one of the improvements included in Mobile Safari was the inclusion of support for scrolling of block elements.
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Automated DNS for AWS Instances Using Route 53
Hosting applications on Amazon EC2 is a relatively painless process. Getting instances ready to deploy applications can literally take minutes.