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- Nov 14 2016
Our new CEO
Starting today, my long time collaborator Jory Burson becomes Bocoup’s new CEO. I am moving into a Research Director role to explore long-term open and inclusive technology development at Bocoup. Jory and Boaz in front of the Bocoup billboard, Spring 2014. Jory joined our team in 2011 to run education, transitioned to general operations in […]
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- Nov 03 2016
How are Americans feeling about the election?
Much like the rest of the country, we’ve been mesmerized by the election and the coverage surrounding it. This election, more than any previous, has spurred conversations and challenges previously unseen, raising questions around political discourse and campaigning nationwide. We’ve been thinking a lot about those very questions, especially in the coming crescendo of election […]
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- design
- Nov 03 2016
Welcome Mary Monat!
Ready your easels – we’re getting ready to paint a beautiful sales picture with our new VP of Sales, Mary Monat! Mary joins us from B-Stock Solutions and brings years of sales leadership and deep love of process to her new role here at Bocoup. We are thrilled to have her at the helm of […]
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- Sep 21 2016
Accessibility Wins: Let’s talk color
In the last two posts we talked about laying the foundation for an accessible website and making sure keyboard users can navigate your site—this week we’re gonna dive into the visual and talk about color. As it turns out, color is a more complex topic than it might seem. We’ll start with a quick run-through […]
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- Sep 20 2016
Showing Missing Data in Line Charts
While working on visualizing the results of internet speed test data for Measurement Lab, it became clear that there wouldn’t always be data for every geographic location on every single day. We might go several days without meeting a minimum threshold of tests, meaning there would be gaps in our data. This is a pretty […]
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- open source
- Sep 15 2016
Open Design Kit: Doing distributed design
The modern workforce is going digital. Teams are taking advantage of new communication tools in order to meet people where they are and allowing them to work from wherever they are most fulfilled and inspired, be it a home office in Montana, a coffee shop in Toronto, or a War Room at WeWork. While this […]
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- Sep 14 2016
Improving D3 Path Animation
D3 provides us with many of the basic building blocks needed to make charts in browsers while also making it extremely easy to animate them. One of the most common charts created with D3 is a line chart, often consisting of a series of SVG <path> elements to visualize the data. In this post, I […]
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- Sep 13 2016
How BoxArt Provides Fast DOM Animations
Our last article about BoxArt showed how to use BoxArt’s Animated component to animate a tile-dropping game built in React. This time, we are going to look at some features of how Animated optimizes animations for performance. The Beastliness of Layout Thrash There’s a performance nightmare constantly threatening when you’re animating in the browser. As […]
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- games,
- performance,
- react
- Sep 08 2016
Animating React Elements with BoxArt
Have you ever tried writing animations into a website? It’s complicated. There’s lots of room for error, and no tool seems to fill every animation need. Recently, while writing some DOM-based games, the Bocoup team realized there wasn’t existing software for all of the projects’ animation needs. To help fill the gaps, Bocoup created BoxArt, […]
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- games,
- react
- Sep 07 2016
Accessibility Wins: Keyboard navigation
Last week, in the first of our series on Accessibility Wins, we looked at setting up a good foundation by using HTML and ARIA roles properly. This week we’re going to dive into the world of making sure that people can navigate your site using their keyboard. Many, many people use just their keyboards for […]
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