iPad Pro gets a trackpad

iPad Pro was announced this week with a load of Hardware goodness. But what got the most attention was that iPad Pro now has a trackpad. Well, the Magic keyboard did (not the iPad) and the iPad OS was updated to support the trackpad.

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Dropbox: Rewriting the heart of our sync engine

Once you have a successful product at your hand; things start to get complex. It’s not that the world has got complex problems; adding features and at times making this simple add complexity.

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perf top for debugging and checking if your app is hogging your CPU

You can look at performance of an application by multiple means. You can use synthetic tools like Google Puppeteer and Lighthouse to see the performance of a web application. But what about that server-side code that sits in the background to process and serve this data to your application.

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It’s Roadmap season

Within the organization Roadmaps are a fearcly debated topic. It’s not the principle of a product roadmap; it’s the misunderstandings they bring.

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Technology is changing us (for the good I think)

Designing for mobile is different and not just with regards to the shape and size. Because mobile devices are lighter and more portable (in some cases), we find it more convenient to use them. And because we use them so often, we feel a unique, emotional connection to them.

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Documenting UX

It does capture details; however, chances are when I see someone else’s wires, I may not like a solution. How do you support your solution?

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Banner Blindness

The most prominent result from the new eyetracking studies is not actually new. We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real. Users almost never look at anything that looks like an advertisement, whether or not it’s actually an ad.

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