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Allie Ofisher

Data Visualizations While it’s common practice at Pixo to check color contrast for optimal readability, we don’t always prioritize comparing each color’s distinction from one another. But color distinction becomes a high priority when designing data visualizations, which rely on the variations between color to represent different categories of information. Designers might strive to make this color distinction clear for viewers who perceive colors in a similar way, yet this “one size fits all” approach doesn’t take into account all color vision experiences.

Lindsey Gates-Markel

From essential software to cozy foot bags, this guide’s got it all. Let’s see… our staff gift exchange is tomorrow. The paper chain counting the days until holiday break is getting shorter every day.

Allie Ofisher

Try this note-taking and prioritization tool The most overwhelming thing when conducting multiple user tests is knowing what to do with all of the insights. As a UX Designer at Pixo, I use a mishmash of techniques to help our team make smart choices when deciding where to put our efforts after a usability test. I eventually created a Google Sheets template (Make a copy for yourself and try it out!) to help me prep for, conduct, and evaluate the results of usability tests.

Julia Pollack

As a new UX designer, every book I pick up is loaded with advice and ideas I never even knew to look for before I entered the profession. Josh Clark’s Designing for Touch is a snappy introduction to direct user screen interaction design. The text manages to take a look at best practices while simultaneously keeping an open mind about changing industry standards.

Brian Walters

Front-end development feels like a spectrum. On one end we have developers to whom markup and styles come first. Semantics, content, and presentation are of the utmost importance.

Lindsey Gates-Markel

It’s Wednesday afternoon at Pixo, and the Hall of Justice is getting restless. The #happy-hour Slack channel starts to light up as 4:45 ticks closer. Finally, it appears: It’s 4:45, and Marty, our recently appointed Director of Technology, has deemed it time for “a Marty.

Nicole Moore

JIRA has made project life a lot easier in a lot of ways, but it has also introduced another set of issues focused on standardization. While all our project teams at Pixo use JIRA, that use varies in both good and bad ways. It’s great that JIRA allows us to individualize each project based on specific needs, but we also need consistent practices across the (literal) board in order to use the project-tracking tool more efficiently.

Lindsey Gates-Markel

“I want to say it stemmed from me talking way too much about Doritos. ” It was Austin’s last day. Our beloved front-end intern was leaving for a summer at Tumblr, and we wanted to send him off with a bang.

Lindsey Gates-Markel

So, hello. I’m the content strategist at Pixo. When I was hired as the (emphasis on the, as in only) content strategist at Pixo, I had… little to no idea what content strategy was.

Matt Fotzler

Let’s talk about teammates. Think about the best people you’ve ever worked with. What makes them the cream of the crop to you? How can we be the best people our teammates have ever worked with? For me, the general answer is impact.

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Allie Ofisher

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