UX + CRO = PROFIT: How to Use Your UX Skills to Improve Conversion Rates (Pt 1) etc.

“Mo’ customers, mo’ problems,” said no one, ever. Whether you’re selling a product, raising donations, or offering a service, having more customers is almost always a good thing. But how can you, lovely UXer that you are, optimize your site so it converts more visitors into customers? (Spoiler alert: this post will answer that very question.)

Color is such a fundamental part of how humans understand the world that we often overlook how it is processed and why it influences us.

Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast and performant as possible with Vue and webpack.

Let's say you have such a class: (this code is borrowed from this Reddit thread ``` !ruby class CreateSomethingService def initialize(params) parse_parameters params end def run Something.create(name: @name) end private def parse_parameters(params) @name = params[:name] end end ```

They sound meaningful but they don’t point to specific trade-offs or product attributes. They’re dressed up ways of saying “I like this better.” What actually makes it easier, or what specifically is…

Many people find Evernote to be an invaluable tool for organizing their life. The Evernote API provides has some really great features to take advantage of, including document download and OCR (optical character recognition). Whichever features you choose to investigate, be sure to read their terms of service so that you are within the guidelines […]

In this tutorial, we will build the actual UI for our todo application using React. We'll connect our React components to the Redux store, test them using AVA and Airbnb's Enzyme, and see how React makes it easy to write both isolated unit tests and full integration tests.

Yesterday we had a serious incident with one of our databases. We lost 6 hours of database data (issues, merge requests, users, comments, snippets, etc.) for GitLab.com.

If you’re going to be writing Ruby in 2017, I have some good news.