JULY 2018

Hello

We're a little late getting this issue published, but better late than never. We found some delightful content in July, and hope you enjoy these links as much as we did.

Inside Baseball

Dashboard Activity Feed is Live

The Activity Feed in your Ballpark dashboard is back! We spent a little extra time on it before we released it to tighten up our icons and make the language more natural for the activities. Next time you log in, be sure to click around the different scopes of the feed and let us know what you think.

Water Cooler

There Are No UX Best Practices

Designer Tom Johnson humbly shares lessons learned attempting to shame an app developer for what turned out to be perfectly reasonable, data-driven UX decisions. - John

Your Emails (and Recipients) Deserve Better Context

If you’re designing emails for your customers, don’t forget that you have to design every aspect of what people experience when getting those emails. You have to know where they’re at in a process, what email apps do to the content and more. Garret Dimon, who I bought the bug and issue tracker, Sifter from, wrote this wonderful article on how to do email the right way. - JD

Moneyball

Mike Monteiro Interview on CreativeMornings

An oldie but a goodie. If you haven’t seen this video before, it’s part of the canon for agency businessing advice. Learn how agreements work, because words matter. I’m willing to bet lunch that the majority of agency founders have no idea what they’re actually selling in their agreements, or what happens when things go south. - JD

Tools of the Trade

Symphosis: crowdsourced knowledge and resources from people in tech, design, and startup

You know all those resources you have saved in a bookmark folder? You can forget about that. Symphosis is a growing, crowdsourced database of resources related to tech, design, and startup. - Andrew

Pushing the Pixels

Sketch Palettes Plugin

This tool by Andrew Fiorillo will make Sketch palettes more powerful – especially helpful if you’re working across multiple files. - Andrew

Designing The Perfect Date And Time Picker

This a very comprehensive article about designing date pickers. It has tons of examples, and raises important considerations that you might have missed. - Caitlin

Git Push, Git Paid

What kind of ethics do front-end developers need?

I often find myself thinking about today's technology, where it's taking us, and what impact it's going to have on me. It frequently causes an emotional reaction in me, but the ethical impact is only starting to come into the spotlight. - Caitlin

Inspirational Things

Design In Code T-Shirt by Cat Noone

Cat is a "friend of the program" over here at Ballpark, and she designed this awesome shirt. It's sold out for now, but you can go submit a request to "Bring It Back". - Caitlin

Abstract Control Panel

This week in How the $%&! did they do that? – Waldo Broodryk brings Masami Kubo’s control center illustration to life using Webflow. - Andrew

Piano

What could appear to be a stuffy, lifeless B2B website at first comes to life with an amazingly crafted, trippy homepage visualization. - John

Closer

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