Happy Friday, everyone. Today I am going to talk about visual testing. I am working on a UI library that requires strict quality checks. That means that any updates to the styles and components code should be isolated and not break any other UI. That means no visual regressions to […]
Guillermo Arellano
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I am systemizing my client validation process. Yesterday’s post about the questions to ask before a UI engagement was just a small piece. This is important to me for two reasons; I get to streamline a process that is very messy (dealing with people is messy) and gives me a […]
As a consultant, I always learn new things from my past projects. Below is a list of questions that I think are good to ask moving forward. I wanted to share them with you today: What is the value of the application being worked on? What will success look like? […]
Having had interviews with Directors of large organizations, one constant request from them is the concept of best practices. Proven methods by which to use a particular technology, organize projects, or deploy a web application. Often, I am brought inside an organization to help the development teams and share proven […]
I mentioned last time that I love Overlays on the UI. It is another way for the architects and designers to add another, ahem, layer of interactive functionality to data-rich web application screens. And in the financial industry, there’s still this prevailing idea that the more information presented to the […]
I love overlays in a web application. That’s because most of the applications that I develop in the financial industry have so much data present on the screen. Some designers try to incorporate meaningful white space into the screens. However, inexperienced product managers want so much data on each page […]
A modal dialog, with a twist A product team once came to me requesting something that, on the surface, sounded quite simple. They wanted me to create a type of overlay that behaved similar to a modal dialog but with a twist. The modal dialog would need to allow the […]
Having led multiple teams in web app projects, I have learned a few things about likely outcomes. The results you are getting in a software development team are always a reflection of how you have built the system. Culture and processes will always outweigh any individual talent. Are you frustrated […]
Early last year, I interviewed at an aerospace company named Jeppessen based in Colorado. The company’s primary focus is providing navigation and flight planning products for airlines around the world. At the time, the company was about to embark on a major revamp of one of its main navigational products. […]