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- 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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- open source
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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