Importing data quickly in Ruby on Rails applications

Application frameworks often provide their own out of the box services for interacting with databases. This works great when processing data in a[..]

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Let's Get Technical III: Design as the Conscience of the World

At Midwest UX in 2013, I was standing in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Meyer May House in Grand Rapids when the docent guiding my group remarked that Wright was[..]

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Let's Get Technical II: Technology on Steroids

In my last blog entry, I wrote about why designers should become more conversant in the nitty gritty of technology. I’d like to take a step forward and be[..]

Jonah Bailey

Let's Get Technical

The Debate is Over

The debate over whether designers in the tech industry should be technical has already happened. Like any good political debate, I[..]

Jonah Bailey

The Ethos of Responsive Design

A lot of what is written and talked about these days in reference to "responsive web design" is technology-focused. We're using new frameworks and[..]

Jonah Bailey

Welcome Mallory!

Mallory hails from our very own Grand Rapids, MI. She has been here through the eighties, nineties, and aughts; seeing our community's renaissance from[..]

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Responsive Pain Points

I'm going to assume that if you're a designer (or developer) by profession and you work in the web industry, you've already read Ethan Marcotte's[..]

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You Will Be Assimilated

Retention and Growth are Hard.

I'm going to go out on a limb and bet that most folks reading this post know who the Borg are. They are a fictitious (yes,[..]

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