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What’s On Our Desks
This week on the Design Blog: Find out what book(s) each member of the design team keeps on their desks for reference, fun, and inspiration Renee Envisioning Information by Edward…
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Life After WIMP
Since Xerox’s PARC and Apple’s Lisa user interfaces hit the scene, the WIMP (windows-icons-menus-pointers) interaction model has become a universal standard. This past Hackweek, fellow designer and Chartcorps member Sam…
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Designing Support: Part 2 – Prototype, Build, Iterate
This is the second post in a series on how we used the design process to prototype, build, and test a brand new support site. By collaborating with our designers,…
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Designing Support: Part 1- Understand, Define, Ideate
This is the first post in a series on how we used the design process to understand, define, ideate, and build a brand new support site. My favorite part of…
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Building an Entire Product in 6 Weeks (How We Built the Chartbeat Paid Content Tool)
A little while ago we released our Paid Content product after two consecutive six-week sprints. The first six weeks were spent creating the MVP, and the second six weeks were…
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The Modern Front-End Workflow—From Start to Finish
Front-end engineers have gone through a bit of a renaissance in recent years. There’s been a wild and wonderful spurt in innovation that has completely changed what it means to…
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How Angular Lets Us Iterate Like Crazy
Changing technologies would mean a new learning curve – a short-term drop in productivity – for all of our front-end developers, so it wasn’t a decision we took lightly. On…
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3 Critical Steps to Land a Job at a Tech Startup: No Connections or Technical Skills Required
So you just graduated from college. Or you’re stuck in the library dreaming about money. Ok, you’re just wasting away at a company that you don’t give a damn about.…
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Things to Know About the New Chartbeat Publishing Design
The goal of product interface design is to develop a product’s personality (the new Chartbeat Publishing is friendly, trustworthy, fast, modern), and tell a story (publishers can build and retain…
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AlleyWatch Feature: Hiring Female Tech Talent in NYC: An Open Source Experiment
I just wrote a piece for AlleyWatch about the difficulty I’ve experienced in hiring female engineers at Chartbeat. We’re hoping to source some great ideas from people like you –…
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Data in Your Menu Bar—Meet the Chartbeat Notifier
Hack Weeks at Chartbeat are always a time of joy. A time of joy for trying and learning new things. It’s a great opportunity for everyone at the company…
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Chartteam Spotlight: Andrew Oddo, Chartcorps Member
We’re on our fourth Chartteam Spotlight y’all and it’s about time I show you how the product-side of Chartbeat lives. After all, what’s a tech startup without the various individuals…
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