{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Thinkmill","description":"A depth of experience in software design and engineering that few can match \u2013 from research and UX\/UI Design, to Node.js, React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkmill.com.au\/","language":"en-au","item":[{"title":"Designing beyond the median user","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/designing-beyond-the-median-user","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/designing-beyond-the-median-user","description":"For seventy years software has shipped one shape to every user. The confluence of design systems, headless platforms, and agent-native exposure has coalesced to make that constraint optional. 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Here\u2019s a list of questions to consider before you get started to avoid running into issues in the future.","pubDate":"Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Thinkmill turns 10","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/thinkmill-turns-10","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/thinkmill-turns-10","description":"In September 2013, our Co-Founders Jed Watson and Boris Bozic officially registered Thinkmill\u2019s ABN. From there, we begun our journey as a software consultancy powered by a skilled team of design-engineers, open-source enthusiasts, and problem-solvers. Today, we\u2019re still that, with sharper tools and the same goal of building great software. Thank you to our team, friends, and clients who\u2019ve been a part of our first decade. We naturally had cookies and cake to celebrate. 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We\u2019re proud to have his serious design systems knowledge at the helm of our design-engineering practice. Thank you for the words of wisdom and experience shared by the other panellists Dominik Wilkowski and Maria Christley; and to Morgan Fletcher for MC-ing the event, and Atlassian for hosting us with an impressive pizza spread. We\u2019ll be there for the next.","pubDate":"Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"7 Things I Love About Keystatic \u2014 A Thread...","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/7-things-i-love-about-keystatic","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/7-things-i-love-about-keystatic","description":"After using Keystatic full-time for about 5 months, I thought I\u2019d share some of the things I really like about it. 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Not only did our co-founder\u2019s wedding see the groom and his groomsmen don P.Johnson suits, but we\u2019re proud to have grown together with them over this decade of learning and progress. Here\u2019s to the next decade of success (and weddings).","pubDate":"Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Project walkthrough: Agriculture Design System","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/project-walkthrough-agriculture-design-system","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/project-walkthrough-agriculture-design-system","description":"Watch Jordan Overbye and Nathan Simpson outline the origins of our recent collaboration with the Australian Government\u2019s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry to implement a modern and accessible React Design System.","pubDate":"Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"The $64,000 question to create more accessible and inclusive experiences","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/64k-question-more-accessible-inclusive-experiences","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/64k-question-more-accessible-inclusive-experiences","description":"Empathising with your blind users to create better experiences for all.","pubDate":"Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Serverless website & booking system with Keystone, Planetscale, Vercel, & Next.js","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/serverless-website-and-booking-system-with-keystone-planetscale-vercel-and-next-js","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/serverless-website-and-booking-system-with-keystone-planetscale-vercel-and-next-js","description":"Josh Calder has open-sourced a new website he built for his wife\u2019s performing arts business. 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Like most of the innovation borne of Thinkmill Labs, Keystatic is in its fledgling stage. There are some rough edges, and we\u2019d love your feedback to keep the wheels of innovation turning. ","pubDate":"Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Orienteering: A framing for software consultancy ","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/orienteering-consulting","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/orienteering-consulting","description":"Orienteering aims to better align a consultant\u2019s mindset with the real-world experience and evolve their way of thinking in a more sustainable way. ","pubDate":"Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"All about Artefacts","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/all-about-artefacts","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/all-about-artefacts","description":"Artefacts are a guaranteed by-product of software development and managing them effectively is important. 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","pubDate":"Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"The Thinkmill Learning Loop","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/the-learning-loop","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/the-learning-loop","description":"How the work we do in open source and client services drives our craft to new levels.","pubDate":"Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Our Philosophy of Working","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/thinkmills-philosophy-of-working","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/thinkmills-philosophy-of-working","description":"The mindsets, principles, and enablers that shape how we build great products.","pubDate":"Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Design, content, & code in parallel: Thinkmill\u2019s new website","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/design-content-and-code-in-parallel-thinkmill-s-new-website","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/design-content-and-code-in-parallel-thinkmill-s-new-website","description":"Simon made a playback of an internal team presentation we did this week. 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Our journey to launch presented an interesting set of challenges and learning opportunities.","pubDate":"Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"How we built our website newsfeed","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/how-we-built-our-website-newsfeed","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/how-we-built-our-website-newsfeed","description":"Here\u2019s Tom Whitaker with an inside look at how we built the Thinkmill website news feed to surface material from a wide range of content types including articles, snippets, events, case studies, and more.","pubDate":"Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Dinesh has released a series of blog templates for Astro","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/dinesh-has-released-a-series-of-blog-templates-for-astro","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/dinesh-has-released-a-series-of-blog-templates-for-astro","description":"Checkout these these beautiful, performant, and accessible open source blog templates for Astro made by our very own Dinesh Pandiyan.","pubDate":"Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Using CSS logical properties for internationalisation","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/using-css-logical-properties-for-internationalisation","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/using-css-logical-properties-for-internationalisation","description":"We discuss the juiciest bits of an internal Slack conversation on design systems and logical properties. 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But, that same nifty sharing feature isn\u2019t available for all the great content on the internet.","pubDate":"Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"GraphQL for designers","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/graph-ql-for-designers","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/graph-ql-for-designers","description":"Why do developers love GraphQL and how can designers best work with them?","pubDate":"Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Dinesh has released an app for sharing social notes","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/dinesh-has-released-an-app-for-sharing-social-notes","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/dinesh-has-released-an-app-for-sharing-social-notes","description":"Dinesh made a handy tool to let you embed text into Open Graph images for social sharing purposes. Pocketnotes lets you quickly create and share notes to platforms like Twitter\/Slack\/Discord and the text will show up in the link preview.","pubDate":"Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Talking remote-first work at the Tech Council of Australia","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/talking-remote-first-work-at-the-tech-council-of-australia","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/talking-remote-first-work-at-the-tech-council-of-australia","description":"Jed was invited by The Tech Council of Australia to talk at their showcase on the future of work. As a panel member, Jed shared Thinkmill\u2019s experience of working in a Covid-era, how our business has been successfully navigating a remote-first approach since 2019, and what the future of our HQ may be. As a member of the TCA, we\u2019re able to give a voice to software R&D and tech, from the trenches of community and innovation.\n","pubDate":"Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Luke Bennett special guests on The NavBar pod","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/luke-bennett-special-guests-on-the-nav-bar-pod","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/luke-bennett-special-guests-on-the-nav-bar-pod","description":"Luke Bennett joined Simon & John from The NavBar to review the exciting new announcements at Next Conf 2022, and the release of Next.js 13.","pubDate":"Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Delightful products, the Antifragile way","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/delightful-products-the-antifragile-way","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/delightful-products-the-antifragile-way","description":"Boris recently spoke at Dovetail\u2019s Delighters Conference about our method for building great products within cross-functional teams.","pubDate":"Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Jed & Alex traveled to India for a week-long code\/design audit and training workshop with a new client. ","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/jed-and-alex-traveled-to-india-for-a-week-long-code-design-audit-and-training-workshop-with-a-new-client","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/jed-and-alex-traveled-to-india-for-a-week-long-code-design-audit-and-training-workshop-with-a-new-client","description":"We\u2019re helping AnywhereWorks find better ways of working and levelling-up their codebase and design system to support future growth.","pubDate":"Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Schema-driven Development","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/schema-driven-development","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/schema-driven-development","description":"Dinesh recently gave a lightning talk at Sydney\u2019s Web Directions Meetup on schema-driven development. 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Seeing our open-source projects used by so many people remains a constant source of inspiration.","pubDate":"Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Single source of truth development","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/single-source-of-truth-development","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/single-source-of-truth-development","description":"Jed demonstrates an end-to-end project using Prisma, Keystone, GraphQL, TypeScript and Next.js where everything is derived from a single source of truth for the schema and types.","pubDate":"Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"How to establish multi-disciplinary teams to effectively design and build products","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/how-to-establish-multi-disciplinary-teams-to-effectively-design-and-build-products","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/how-to-establish-multi-disciplinary-teams-to-effectively-design-and-build-products","description":"Lauren recently co-presented with Paul Merrell from Meld Studios at UX Australia 2022 about how Thinkmill & Meld established a multi-disciplinary team to effectively design and build a product.","pubDate":"Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"New TypeScript utilities released as OSS","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/new-type-script-utilities-released-as-oss","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/new-type-script-utilities-released-as-oss","description":"Design-engineer Joss Mackison has released a new open source collection of utilities that smooth out the rough edges of working with TypeScript.","pubDate":"Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Jordan\u2019s Automatic Style Guides plugin now supports hsla()","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/jordan-s-automatic-style-guides-plugin-now-supports-hsla","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/jordan-s-automatic-style-guides-plugin-now-supports-hsla","description":"Jordan Geizer has released an update to his awesome Automatic Style Guides plugin. Now with hsla() support.","pubDate":"Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"The State of Headless CMS","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/the-state-of-headless-cms","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/the-state-of-headless-cms","description":"Jed joined a panel of experts to discusses the current state of Headless CMS and what lies over the horizon.","pubDate":"Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Simon Vrachliotis has launched a Podcast series","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/simon-vrachliotis-has-launched-a-podcast-series","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/simon-vrachliotis-has-launched-a-podcast-series","description":"Simon Vrachliotis and his friend John Myers from Supabase have launched the NavBar \u2013 a podcast dedicated to web development and content creation. Check out the teaser.","pubDate":"Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Introducing KeystoneJS, the CMS & API Platform for Prisma","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/introducing-keystone-js-the-cms-and-api-platform-for-prisma","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/introducing-keystone-js-the-cms-and-api-platform-for-prisma","description":"Jed\u2019s workshop on how to build a polling system into a blog with Keystone, NextJs, GraphQL & Prisma.","pubDate":"Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Keystone 6 is now in General Availability!","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/keystone-6-is-now-in-general-availability","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/keystone-6-is-now-in-general-availability","description":"Today\u2019s Keystone is faster and more flexible than it\u2019s ever been, and is ready for you to build amazing things with.","pubDate":"Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Keystone, GraphQL & Prisma","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/keystone-graph-ql-and-prisma","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/keystone-graph-ql-and-prisma","description":"Jed discusses the new Keystone 6 at Prisma\u2019s Korea Meetup ","pubDate":"Sat, 09 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"We\u2019ve joined the Tech Council of Australia","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/we-ve-joined-the-tech-council-of-australia","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/we-ve-joined-the-tech-council-of-australia","description":"We\u2019ve joined the Tech Council of Australia to help reach 1m tech jobs by 2025","pubDate":"Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Next-gen CMS & GraphQL API with Keystone & Prisma","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/next-gen-cms-and-graph-ql-api-with-keystone-and-prisma","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/next-gen-cms-and-graph-ql-api-with-keystone-and-prisma","description":"Jed shared our freshly minted Keystone 6 with the world at Prisma Day conference in July 2021. His talk is a great way learn how Keystones combination of features and flexibility set it apart from other backend frameworks and Content Management Systems","pubDate":"Fri, 16 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"ReactConf AU, one year later","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/react-conf-au-one-year-later","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/react-conf-au-one-year-later","description":"We put on Australia\u2019s first ever React Conf in February 2020. 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Now you can prepare a clean and functional style guide for clients & developers with a click of a button.","pubDate":"Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"All the ReactConf AU talks are available online","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/all-the-react-conf-au-talks-are-available-online","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/all-the-react-conf-au-talks-are-available-online","description":"All the recordings from ReactConf AU are available on YouTube. Here\u2019s the full playlist.","pubDate":"Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"The \"state\" of UI","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/the-state-of-ui","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/the-state-of-ui","description":"This will come as a surprise to many of you, but user interfaces on the web, have different types of state. It might be that \"State\", much like \"Design Systems\", is a word that has lost all meaning for you, but regardless, I think you will agree the UI state designers talk about is different from the application state developers refer to. Let\u2019s figure out how to have a discussion about these similar sounding but very different concepts for the sake of our sanity and better design system components.","pubDate":"Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Illustrations for ReactConf AU 2020","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/illustrations-for-reactconf-au-2020","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/illustrations-for-reactconf-au-2020","description":"A unique illustration for each presentation","pubDate":"Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"The Value of Open Source","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/the-value-of-open-source","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/the-value-of-open-source","description":"Jed wraps up ReactConf AU by discussing the sustainability of open source, the value OSS creates for us all individually and as a collective, and then proposes some small steps we can all take to ensure the future of our vibrant community.","pubDate":"Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Engineering-led design","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/engineering-led-design","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/engineering-led-design","description":"Lauren Argenta describes Thinkmill\u2019s Engineering-led Design mindset, and the 5 behaviours that a cross-disciplinary team can adopt to make work life (and the software we make) better.","pubDate":"Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Building with Monorepos","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/building-with-monorepos","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/building-with-monorepos","description":"Monorepos are everywhere in the React community from design systems and apps to open source libraries. Being able to work on multiple packages together is powerful, but it\u2019s not without its problems. Emma Hamilton shows you how to solve these problems by exploring the evolution of Emotion\u2019s monorepo.","pubDate":"Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Targeted extensibility: Lessons learned from building Atlaskit","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/targeted-extensibility-lessons-learned-from-building-atlaskit","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/targeted-extensibility-lessons-learned-from-building-atlaskit","description":"Often when building a design system we face tension between consistent and resilient API\u2019s that encapsulate valuable and reusable logic, and sufficient flexibility to ensure that our components can be customised to fit bespoke product use cases. Towing this line is difficult, and becomes more difficult as a design system scales. Charles uncovers some of the hard-learned lessons towing this line in React-Select, and Atlaskit \u2013 Atlassian\u2019s Design System.","pubDate":"Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Keystone 6 featured on the SyntaxFM podcast","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/keystone-6-featured-on-the-syntax-fm-podcast","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/keystone-6-featured-on-the-syntax-fm-podcast","description":"Wes Bos talks about Keystone. Best practices, things to avoid, and why you should check it out.","pubDate":"Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"How to safely inject HTML in React using an iframe","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/how-to-safely-inject-html-react-iframe","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/how-to-safely-inject-html-react-iframe","description":"If you need to inject HTML into your React app and you don\u2019t want to use `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`, this article is for you.","pubDate":"Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Thinkmill in Space","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/tm-in-space","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/tm-in-space","description":"The year is 2225. Thinkmill has taken to space. Currently orbiting the moon, sending explorers to discover the universe.","pubDate":"Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Progressive Rendering \u2014 The Key to Faster Web","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/progressive-rendering","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/progressive-rendering","description":"Progressive Rendering is the technique of sequentially rendering portions of a webpage in the server and streaming it to the client in parts without waiting for the whole page to rendered.","pubDate":"Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Introducing Preconstruct","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/introducing-preconstruct","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/introducing-preconstruct","description":"Preconstruct is a build tool for JavaScript packages with first-class support of monorepos and strong opinions to get you back to work faster.","pubDate":"Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Building React Select","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/building-react-select","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/building-react-select","description":"Jed talks about how he accidentally built the most popular React component, experienced death by a hundred props, got buried under hundreds of PRs, invented a component extension API, learned that styles are also a function of state, influenced some major design systems and finally got some sleep.","pubDate":"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"React Dev Tools - Debug like a ninja","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/react-dev-tools","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/react-dev-tools","description":"Hands down console.log() was, is and will always be the greatest debugging tool of all time.","pubDate":"Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Introducing Keystone 5","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/introducing-keystone-5","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/introducing-keystone-5","description":"Keystone 5 is a scalable platform that allows you to create a highly customised CMS and API in minutes.","pubDate":"Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"How I prototyped a social network with Keystone","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/how-i-prototyped-a-social-network-with-keystone","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/how-i-prototyped-a-social-network-with-keystone","description":"Nathan Simpson shares how he built \"The Garage\" \u2013 a social network for car lovers, using Keystone 5 and React Native.","pubDate":"Sun, 23 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"On design systems legibility","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/on-design-systems-legibility","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/on-design-systems-legibility","description":"A design system that nobody can understand is a design system nobody can use. This is why good documentation is so key to having a well-used and well-loved design system. Noviny walks you through two of Atlassian\u2019s documentation sites for the company-wide design system & component library Atlaskit, showing how the content is built and written, and the practical steps you can take immediately to tackle the hard problems around large documentation projects.","pubDate":"Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Rebuilding React-Select","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/rebuilding-react-select","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/rebuilding-react-select","description":"Jed discusses the upcoming React Select 2 and his experiences working in open source.","pubDate":"Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Creating Apps with JavaScript","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/creating-apps-with-java-script","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/creating-apps-with-java-script","description":"Tom and Boris discuss and demonstrate how (and why) to prototype UI animations and interactions before development, and how to build a native-quality app for SydJS using web technologies.","pubDate":"Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Content Management & Node.js","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/content-management-and-node-js","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/content-management-and-node-js","description":"Jed Watson talks about Content Management Systems in Node.js.","pubDate":"Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Prototyping: Solutions vs. Interactions","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/prototyping-solutions-vs-interactions","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/prototyping-solutions-vs-interactions","description":"Designing and prototyping the solution is different to prototyping interactions. 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This is the story of my first year writing open-source software.","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT"},{"title":"Prototyping UI Animation","link":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/prototyping-ui-animation","guid":"https:\/\/thinkmill.com.au\/blog\/prototyping-ui-animation","description":"Interaction design with Edge Animate","pubDate":"Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT"}]}}