October Developers Notes 10/2018 🍂
General
O'Reilly Publishing published the book “UX Research” by David Farkas and Brad Nunnally at the end of 2016. Now they publish Chapter 7 on finding respondents for user research.
Pavel Pravdin, founder of Welltory, talks about how processes work in a distributed team of 25 people. Very interesting to read:
Design
There are many illustrators speaking at the Mail Design Conference / Dribbble Meetup. You can look playlist with videos of their stories and choose a topic you like. The playlist was recently updated.
The annual presentation of new products and experiments, Adobe MAX 2018, took place from October 15 to 17 in Los Angeles. Lots of updates... as always.
—Adobe XD
October update it turned out very tight, this is the largest jerk of the instrument.
— Photoshop
The main version has also been updated
Many new features, improvements to old ones and interface optimization (for example, there are finally mathematical formulas for setting sizes).
- TypeKit is finally here renamed!
Now this Adobe Fonts.
Many restrictions have been removed - you can synchronize all your fonts to your computer, there is no difference between using it on a computer and on the web, and restrictions on views and domains on the web have been removed.
— After Effects with a bunch of nice features.
— Illustrator с a bunch of improvements.
— InDesign now makes reflow easier.
— Project Aero to implement your augmented reality projects.
— Project Gemini, iPad drawing tool.
— Dimension 2.0 for using 3D objects in 2D images.
— Premiere CC focused on video bloggers. One of the new Adobe Sensei demos shows potential development - automatic cropping of landscape video for stories.
Updates are available now through Creative Cloud.
Principle updated too. Now works with Figma, there is a dark theme.
Design Tools
Ratio
Experimental design tool from Florian Schulz.
The author wrote a good article, where he examined in detail the features of the instrument and more.
Overframe
A simple tool for Mac allows you to insert an interactive prototype into a phone frame and create a video for your promotional website.
Webflow
added a tool for working with CSS Grid.
Purple
The service helps to store project design documentation - from incoming requirements and use cases in a wide variety of variations to mock-ups and other visual results of work.
Draft
Another service for storing layouts in a team. True, it’s not particularly useful - just a gallery without specifications or even a description. However, I have already used it a couple of times and there are times when this service is just right.
Sensitive
Service for tracking the history of layouts. Timeline and automatic tracking of design changes..
Time Machine
Prototypr has launched a timeline of design tool updates. Now you can see which tool updated what and when. It’s sometimes interesting to see who implemented this or that feature for the first time and when.
Development
Development_Tools
Interesting libraries
Thanks for the collection of libraries @itsheavy.