Strategic Tech

JULY 29, 2021

If you would like to learn or practice how to break up a large business into domains and use them as the foundation for your software architecture and team organization, I have created a strategic domain-driven design kata that you may find useful. Who to invite? I recommend organising attendees into groups of 4–5 people.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. Here’s an example I use in talks and workshops: How to group these concepts into domains? This is normal, embrace the fuzziness and apply design thinking.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At the limit, statically generated, edge delivered, and HTML-first pages look like the optimal strategy. Enabling dynamic commerce requires close integration between server and client, an optimized streaming and data fetch strategy, and a production platform that operates at scale. Jump to the workshop ?. (vf, Online, and live.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Existing best practices and guidance, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), give us a solid foundation for inclusive design and already incorporate many details that affect dyslexic readers. In this article, we’ll look at ways to make an existing design dyslexia-friendly. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 23, 2021

You will need a way of reaching the specific kind of client you would like to work with, and that needs a strategy that word of mouth cannot supply. Unfortunately, it is just as easy to get that strategy wrong, and doing so can prove a waste of time and money. Jump to the workshop ?. The Problem With Traditional Approaches.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In summary, modernization was essential for the company to achieve its strategy in a competitive landscape. They are also a vital step toward defining the Kickstarter workshop. AMET designs and facilitates the Kickstarter Workshop. Learning, upskilling, and patience was necessary.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 12, 2020

In the six months since I’ve received feedback from my own workshops and other people’s workshops about ways to improve the canvas. Please feel free to use it, create remixes, or simply take it as inspiration to develop your own ways of designing bounded contexts. More importantly, keep looking for better ways to design systems.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Jump to online workshops ?. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The result is that we create better designed software systems and teams of problem solvers rather than order takers. Used judiciously, EventStorming gives us the ability to uncover enough information about our domain and our business that we can use it to design our microservices, bounded contexts, and even our teams.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

To solve the second problem, I take an approach that can be summarized in four pieces: Design tokens. Design Tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. CSS setup will be storing all site-wide values as design tokens. Jump to the workshop ?. Not only does Next.js Global styles.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 18, 2018

Yet there is no flowchart we can simply follow to find the optimal design. It’s so easy to get design choices wrong and make things worse instead of making them better. In order to effectively design sociotechnical systems, I recommend using design heuristics. We have the unpredictable nature of markets.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2022

We stepped in and offered to run a series of workshops. Initially, one workshop for the leadership team to capture the North Star, and one workshop for the engineering teams and partners to surface their needs to the leadership team. Dan helped me to see that I had designed the workshop as a consultant.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Start by mapping out the current state of your domains If you’re not sure what your domains are, I have created a Strategic DDD Kata which provides a scenario for you to practice designing domain boundaries. The Strategy Cycle.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ahmad’s strategies on achieving the cut-out effect. When designing cards, you might want a border-radius to have a quite sizeable value when there is enough space to display it along with other cards. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smart Interface Design Patterns , with Vitaly Friedman. Jump to the workshop ?.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. Web Workers are designed to perform tasks that do not require direct access to the UI, such as data processing, image manipulation, or calculations.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 27, 2022

More of the meetings and workshops I attend are more productive and collaborative and it seems that people are now more warmed up to the idea of participating in visual collaboration as well. Having to quickly think on the spot and improvise during workshops is quite difficult. I think the effects have been very positive.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Let’s take a look at what some of these testing strategies look like in practice. In his online workshop on Building Modern HTML Emails , Rémi Parmentier will show how to code bulletproof, responsive HTML emails that work well in Gmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo and Outlook today. Jump to the workshop ?. Design/UX Collaboration.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you facilitate or attend domain discovery workshops, one of the most effective and simplest ways to uncover insights is to make the scale or size of something explicit. During one workshop, I asked a developer “How often does this go wrong?”. There was an industry expert consultant in the workshop.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

Binder, she notes, “was widely used last year for teaching workshops and tutorials at many Python conferences.” Will the incremental strategy of delivering pattern matching and algebraic data types ( Project Amber ) pay off? Will Quarkus bear out its promise and the faith of its early fans?

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The team can become a bottleneck for many other teams, and this design choice can be the result of elevated organisational politics. DDD Pattern: Library Contexts was originally published in Nick Tune’s Tech Strategy Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 1, 2022

I’ve just created a new kata which you and your team/friends can use to practice your architecture and domain-driven design skills. You can find out more about that here: [link] This kata is based on content from my workshops. The third part of the worskhop focuses on strategy?—?how Is each domain core, supporting, or generic?

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

Typically, there’s a period where modernization is discussed as the pains of legacy systems and/or ways of working are noticed and become ever more prominent, blocking the business strategy. You can also experiment with various workshop formats. Some companies talk about modernizing for years before they make a serious commitment.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 24, 2022

In this article, I’m referring to question formats used in surveys, questionnaires, and workshops. Pre-workshop : questionnaires sent out to workshop attendees to help plan the final details of an upcoming workshop. It is a skill I would definitely encourage all leaders and facilitators to reflect on.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 20, 2021

In every workshop, I always ask everyone “Imagine there is no text here. What do you read from the image below, and what might you propose to do next in the workshop? Reading Strategy Patterns One of the techniques I use frequently for visualising business, product, and technology strategy is Core Domain Charts.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Ethics are an important part of human-computer interaction because they keep people at the heart of the design process. As UX practitioners, we know empathy is an important part of the design process. Interaction Design Foundation. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. Devin Harold. Large preview ).

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 17, 2018

While workshops may help bridge this gap, most workshops focus on a particular research theme and students working on “not hot” or not well established research areas are left out. We believe having all of these mechanisms as part of one workshop that specifically targets early stage students would complement existing efforts.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

You may find that other approaches work better for you, and in reality every workshop is different so you need to be flexible. The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops. The scope of the workshop will influence how many levels is necessary. This is a tricky problem for facilitators.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. We used an eager loading strategy paired with a high fetchpriority on the images.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As software testing plays a significant role in the delivery of the final product, it is necessary to consider that the testing process must involve accurate, exhaustive test cases and firm test strategy. Before enacting your automation strategy, create a training document and have multiple meetings and workshops.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

I’m posting this on the Sunday before re:Invent, and will update as I find out more during the week… Sustainability Track Sessions and Workshops What follows are the catalog descriptions of the talks, after I’ve watched the videos I’ll update this post with my own commentary. You must bring your laptop to participate.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Unless you’ve designed a truly innovative new product, the chances are that you can already find something at least similar on Amazon. Scraping those product pages can net you invaluable data such as: The competitors’ pricing strategy. You’ll be better prepared to design, launch, and expand your product lineup with that data.

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Strategic Tech

APRIL 27, 2019

Perhaps led by strong managers, they will fight vehemently for their work to be prioritised and software systems to be designed to their needs. Subservient contexts are contexts which are designed and built to the requirements of their consumers, either by force or an attempt to try and be helpful.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. Jump to the workshop ?. Now that we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practice. More after jump! With 100s of real-life examples , guidelines and best practices that you can apply right away.

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Tech News Gather

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The first thing you should do is educate yourself on successful trading strategies. This qualification which verifies their proficiency in designing or executing non-fungible tokens, unquestionably lays the groundwork for such a future with non-fungible tokens. Are you considering becoming more involved in the Bitcoin trading market?

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Many of the practices that enable teams to move quickly are the same practices that enable highly-reliabile systems: automation, observability, testing, and design. I suggest regular domain discovery workshops to identify hidden domain coupling. This is an important leadership and strategy issue.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The Complete Software Tester: Concepts, Skills, and Strategies for High-Quality Testing by Kristin Jackvony. A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design by Lee Copeland. You can keep borrowing these books from them though. Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory.

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