Thursday, September 1, 2016

This dancing, beeping R2-D2 toy can also guard your bedroom










By: Matthew Reynolds

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Inside the 'brain' of IBM Watson: how 'cognitive computing' is poised to change your life










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Responsive Images In WordPress With Art Direction













 



 




Support for responsive images was added to WordPress core in version 4.4 to address the use case for viewport-based image selection, where the browser requests the image size that best fits the layout for its particular viewport.



Responsive Images In WordPress With Art Direction


Images that are inserted within the text of a post automatically get the responsive treatment, while images that are handled by the theme or plugins - like featured images and image galleries - can be coded by developers using the new responsive image functions and filters. With a few additions, WordPress websites can accommodate another responsive image use case known as art direction. Art direction gives us the ability to design with images whose crop or composition changes at certain breakpoints.

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Sheep puns reach critical mass as Google finally gets involved in Sheep View

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Where there's a wool, there's a way.

DDB expands startup focused Ignite model nationally

Venture provides branding expertise in exchange for an equity stake

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Hands-on with Montblanc's £530 Augmented Paper that turns handwriting into digital text










By: Jeremy White

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How We Use Prototyping, And How It Made Us More Efficient













 



 




Prototyping is essential to help your team create the best product possible. It's a chance to experiment with ideas and turn them into something tangible that you can test and build upon. When you fail with your prototype, you land softly - there's always the chance to iterate and improve.



Prototyping For Success


The team behind Adobe's new prototyping tool Experience Design (Adobe XD) uses prototyping as a method to test new features before they make it into the program. Being a product manager on the Adobe XD team, I'll share some insights into how the team uses prototyping to build and improve Adobe XD, and make prototyping more efficient for designers.

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