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Personas are “fictional characters, which you create based upon your research in order to represent the different user types that might use your service, product, site, or brand in a similar way.” — Interaction Design Foundation Personas are important because they help build empathy with your end users. This, in…

The editor that I use for my workflow is the open source version of Visual Studio Code: VSCodium. I use it because I am definitely not a fan of the telemetry that Microsoft puts in the version that they use. It also doesn’t help that it, in my opinion, bugs…

Image compression is pretty important for the web because being able to serve quickly loading web apps and websites is a necessity for many companies so that their users are able to get their information as efficiently and as quickly as possible to get through their day without a lot…

Ah, JavaScript. What a lovely little scripting language. …

Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets The namesake of this technology is truly, well, awesome. Sass is what’s called a CSS Preprocessor. Essentially, it takes all the good parts of an actual programming / scripting language and throws it into regular, ol’ CSS. Sass can help developers write CSS that is less repetitive (following the DRY…

Well, in simple terms a CSS framework is essentially a library of styles and components built by a team of developers to streamline the development process. One of the bigger frameworks out there, Bootstrap, was created by Twitter in order to help their design and development process. Okay, now that I know what a framework is now… So, now that…

I chose the topic of my favorite places because I really enjoy remembering these places that I’ve been too and the people that I went with. …

When this project was announced as the last unit, I jumped on a free trial of ZapWorks and started playing around with it. I thought it was pretty awesome that we’d be working with something pretty cool. I was pretty excited about it. I started thinking about what kind of…