The good, the bad and the ugly of using your own product for work
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Posts filed under 'Web Development'
How To Use A Website Annotation Tool
Making the most out of these fantastic feedback powerhouses Giving feedback on webpages can be a cumbersome process, even more so when it comes to larger teams with differing inputs. Every piece of feedback (and there is always lots of...
The Website Design Principles You May Not Be Aware Of
Design inspiration, trends and more as we near the end of 2020. Website design principles are a constant yet ever changing part of the wonderful illustrations, images and experiences we have online. Where at one time gradients were widely used...
Improve the QA process with this simple bug reporting template
What is “done” when you’re referring to bug tracking? What’s “done” for one person in the QA process could be “in-progress” for another. Without a process in place, bug tracking can be a downright chore. It doesn’t take long for inconsistencies in reporting to lead to follow-up emails, bugs getting left behind and the QA process resembling more of a “free for all” than a defined system.
The Five Types of Web Testing
Testing can be fundamental to providing a reliable experience to your users. Everyone can take part in the web testing process. It doesn't have to take deep technical knowledge to provide feedback on something that's not behaving correctly or as expected. Unit testing, for example, requires technical knowledge of the codebase, compared to accessibility testing which doesn't. Both of these and more, are described in this blog by our Lead Developer James Coleman...
How do you migrate from Backbone/ERB to React?
BugHerd has survived for nine years as a successful SaaS product built using Backbone, jQuery and Rails. Over that time, it's been relatively easy to ignore new technology in favour of stability (and there was a period of inactive development)...
Why you should run a Bug Bash program
It may seem that bug testing is the sole responsibility of developers. But more and more, teams are finding that additional value can be extracted by involving the entire company. If the first real user of your product is a paying customer, you may have missed an opportunity to uncover issues in your software before it gets in their hands. That's where a company-wide Bug Bash can help.
Designing for people
Designing for people, not computers Interacting with clients in any field of work is often viewed as a negative experience. People care very much about the way their coffee tastes, people care that their children are getting the education they...
The Top 5 Web Dev Trends Of 2015
Responsive Design (again) This may seem a bit “last year”, but the challenges we face with responsive design have not gotten any easier. Not only do we have to deal with desktops, laptops and tablets and screen readers, but the...
CSS: Change is good, even if the outcome isn’t
I spoke at SYDCSS in October on why Change is Good, Even if the Outcome Isn’t, where I had a blast. With the talk seeming to resonate with a larger-than-expected percentage of the audience, I’d like to go into more...