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- Aug 30 2016
Accessibility Wins: Start with the foundations
Welcome to the first post in our Accessibility Wins series, which will detail techniques you can use today to improve the accessibility of your web projects. Through this process, you’ll gain insight into how we think about accessibility here at Bocoup. First up is the foundation on which it all rests: writing good HTML and […]
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- a11y,
- accessibility,
- html
- Aug 29 2016
Future Responsive
The mobile web’s market share is growing as a bigger and bigger part of the overall web every year. Because of this, more and more organizations are recognizing the value of responsive web design. However, not every organization is ready to go responsive right now. Fixed width sites don’t translate into cheaper sites to build […]
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- responsive web design
- Aug 25 2016
Test262 is a JavaScript Sideshow
Illustration by Sue Lockwood TC-39, the standards body that defines JavaScript, maintains a gigantic suite of tests for the language. The name of that test suite is Test262. When we started extending Test262 to cover brand new language features, we knew we were in for some surprises. Even so, we never could have anticipated the […]
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- testing
- Aug 24 2016
Welcome Laura Powell
Bam! Zap! Ka-boom! Pow(ell)! We’re exploding with joy because Laura Powell has joined the coop as our Operations Manager. A native of our home state of Massachusetts, Laura joins us after her time at Wistia, and we’re excited to have her on board to help manage our facilities, logistics, and generally keep the good ship […]
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- Aug 17 2016
Good Luck, April!
Our friend and colleague April Hart has left Bocoup. Though we will dearly miss her spirit and enthusiasm, we’re really excited for her next big adventure and can’t wait to see what she does next. April has impacted Bocoup’s culture and values in immeasurable ways, and has played a big part in making Bocoup the […]
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- Aug 11 2016
Advancing the Open Web through Test262
In the beginning of 2015, we started another important project for the open web. Of course you haven’t forgotten, but for all the folks just joining us: Google and Bocoup teamed up to improve Test262, the official test suite for the JavaScript language. Our goal was to improve the dependability of the web platform (not […]
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- Jul 21 2016
Open Design Kit: A toolkit for designing with distributed collaborators
Today, we are pleased to announce Open Design Kit – a collection of remixable methods designed to support creativity and problem solving within the context of the agile and distributed 21st century workplace. We are creating this kit to share the techniques we use within our open design practice at Bocoup and teach to collaborators […]
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- design,
- open design kit,
- open source,
- process
- Jul 19 2016
Adventures in Pair Designing: Pomming
Designing in a vacuum is challenging. It’s more than challenging – it’s hard, painful, sad, depressing, defeating, pointless, infuriating, lonely – you get my point? It can potentially be debilitating for a creative to be working in a silo, which from time to time could happen on a project. To address this, we are experimenting […]
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- design,
- productivity
- Jul 14 2016
Creating a Bocoup style guide
In between client work and working with my design colleagues on an internal project, I’ve been busy creating a Bocoup style guide. One of the fantastic things about Bocoup is that we make a lot of the tools we use to track our work, schedules, and skills—but we didn’t have an easy way for anyone […]
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- design,
- front-end,
- style guides
- Jul 08 2016
Pom & Circumstance: Announcing Pombot for tracking time and productivity in Slack
Recent communication apps, like Slack, have lowered the barrier of entry for the use of bots to increase productivity. There are many techniques that I, personally, have tried in the past for time management, but none that I ever ended up fully adopting. Despite that, I always have been fascinated with what my colleagues were […]
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- bots,
- chatter,
- pombot,
- productivity,
- slack