Gamification in Product Development: Leveling Up Your Innovation
The Name of the Game: User Engagement In product development, user engagement is the name of the game. With an ever-increasing number of distractions…
Design
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Blurring the Lines: The Rise of the Design Engineer
By Amy Collins, Revelry Alumni In the world of software development, you may have stumbled across titles like DevOps Engineer, Data Engineer, or Infrastructure…
The Impact of Spatial Computing on Software Engineering: Reimagining Digital Workspaces
In early June, Apple introduced its Apple Vision Pro and in doing so sent the technology world into a frenzy with two words: spatial…
Building with Bricks and Bytes – The Overlapping Worlds of LEGO and Software Engineering
By Amy Collins, Software Engineer As a software engineer and LEGO enthusiast, I spend my days designing with code and my nights designing with…
What’s New in Phoenix 1.7 + LiveView .18 – File Structure and Templates
I recently had the opportunity to use Phoenix 1.7 and LiveView .18.3 in a production environment and it was, in a word, amazing. It’s…
Is AI Killing Creative Jobs?
By Steve Achord, Revelry Alumni As a creative professional, it’s hard not to be excited by the latest advancements in artificial intelligence technology. AI-powered…
MidJourney AI: The Idea Machine
By Steve Achord, Revelry Alumni Imagine being the director of your own art studio. You employ thousands of visual artists, adept at all styles…
A Peek Behind the Curtain: What our Software Design Engineers Do
Laura Eble has been a Revelry front-end design engineer / UI and UX designer since 2014. We sat down with her to understand what…
Meet Dan Murphy: Bullet Journalist, Dad, and Front End Developer
Dan Murphy is one of Revelry’s stellar front-end design engineers. Get to know him… Where are you from? I grew up in Peekskill, N.Y.,…
Getting Started with Image Formats for Web
What are the best image formats for web? Saving an optimized file in an appropriate format can have a big impact on website speed.
13 Must-Have Visual Studio (VS) Code Extensions for Front-End Developers
Always on the hunt for ways to automate or be more efficient, Steve lists several VS Code extensions that make his every day life better when writing CSS or SCSS.
Need a UX Checklist? 4 Steps to an effective audit
The checklist is a good foundation for a UX audit and can be used as a starting point and not as an end goal, but rather as a guide.
Understanding UX Design
User Experience Design (UX), is a term coined by Don Norman in the 1990s while he was Apple’s Vice President of Advanced Technology group….
Incorporating Design Thinking into Lean Agile Sprints
It’s too easy to drop the learning aspect from Agile when the default is to build. We believe in the value of design thinking principles, and our innovation partners benefit from the quick wins that come out of slowing down once in awhile. Here’s how we do it.
As a team member, I want better user stories …
Here’s a template for writing a user story that helps you imagine that you’re the user, so that you can think about how you would want to use the system. The template is a tool to prevent you from retreating back into the developer’s perspective.