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Knowing how to code helps you write better prototypes
UIE’s Jared Spool posted a follow-up to his “Why the Valley wants designers who can code” post, which we wrote about last week. His new article, which he says will be the last from him on the topic for...
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UX Bootcamp: Prototyping in Code
User experience designer Leisa Reichelt recently tweeted her discomfort with prototyping tools: #bbpBox_75196990992035840 a { text-decoration:none; color:#CC3366; }#bbpBox_75196990992035840 a:hover {...
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Launch: Handcraft in the Chrome Web Store
Handcraft is now available in the Chrome Web Store. This means that if you use Google Chrome, you can install Handcraft and it will appear in your new tab screen. Clicking it there will take you...
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Create wireframes in Powerpoint with PowerMockup
Apple Keynote and Microsoft Powerpoint are designed for creating presentations. But their drag & drop nature has led some people to find another excellent use for them: wireframing. By dragging UI...
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Common Sense Code Completion is now context aware
Since we created our code completion addon for CodeMirror (see this post), it’s been adopted by several other projects, both open source and commercial. Thanks to the people at webpop we’ve been able...
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HTML5 Boilerplate doesn’t use HTML5 tags?
No Yo Dawg for Paul Irish? “HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.” – html5boilerplate.com Here at Handcraft we couldn’t...
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HTML prototyping: because the details matter
This week we headed to Brighton in England to give a talk at a UX Brighton event about “Practical Prototyping”. Our talk focused on a couple of topics we’ve talked about on this blog over the past...
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Handcraft gets Zen Coding
If you’re not familiar with Zen Coding, here’s a brief description taken from its homepage: Zen Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed [HTML] coding and editing. The core of this plugin is a...
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More on the difference between wireframing and prototyping
Last year we wrote about how wireframing and prototyping aren’t the same thing. A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at UX Brighton about the difference as well. We decided it basically comes down to this:...
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Adobe doesn’t get it
Adobe’s new Muse is a product aimed at helping print designers design websites without coding. There are two things wrong here. The first is the idea that print designers should be designing websites....
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Don’t stop calling yourself a UX designer – it’s working!
It seems like there’s a neverending debate over whether people should be allowed to call themselves “user experience designer”. On one side of the fence you’ve got people assigning themselves the title...
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“A designer who does not write markup and css is not designing for the web,...
Andy Rutledge wrote a blog post saying that web design is product design: Web design is product design. Drawing a picture of the product is not designing the product. Web design is experience design....
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An open letter to Stripe
Update: Stripe responded below, and if you want Stripe in Europe you can leave your name and country here Dear people at Stripe, Stripe sounds lovely and I wanted to add a voice from Europe calling for...
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How the new Chrome Web Store increased signups to Handcraft by 1000%
Last week’s release of a renewed Chrome Web Store by Google increased signups to Handcraft by 1000%. What happened? Better surfacing of content The new Chrome Web Store dramatically simplifies...
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Handcraft is Appvita’s cloud app of the day for March 9th
Stephanie Miles has written a lovely article about Handcraft for Appvita: If you work in a field that requires collaboration for success, then Handcraft could be a tool worth checking out. After you...
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App Storm reviews Handcraft
Check out this review of Handcraft by AppStorm’s Darren Meehan: Using Handcraft has been an interesting experience. Building a web site directly in a browser is something I never thought I’d be doing,...
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Stephen Anderson on wireframes vs high fidelity prototypes
UX thought leader and speaker Stephen Anderson weighs in on whether you should focus on wireframes or push forward with high fidelity, interactive prototypes early on. I like his use of internalising...
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Braintree coming to Europe later this year
For all you European businesses with web apps and services that have been having as hard of a time getting your payment processor up and running as we have, Braintree have apparently now announced...
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What’s next for Handcraft
It’s time to start talking about the future of Handcraft! Handcraft began as a HTML prototyping tool aimed at designers and developers with little to no coding experience. And it’s worked really well:...
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Stripe beta in the Netherlands – how is it?
For those of you following our blog because of our series of posts documenting our (mis)adventures trying to get payments up and running, some good news: Stripe is now available in the UK! And not only...
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