Pencils & Papers

Photo: Samuel Mann, Flickr

Balsamiq Mockups

Wireframes & Mockups

Photo: BALDIRI

POP

UXPin

Quick Prototyping

Photo: geekphysical, Flickr

Typeform

launchrock

Unbounce

Minimum Viable Product

Photo: Ryan Brooks, Flickr

Rapid Application Development

The art of quickly building a good software.

Good software are tested.

Pragmatism over anything else.

1. Choose a Framework

Avoid reinventing the wheel.

• C#: ASP.NET, NancyFX
• CSS: Bootstrap, Foundation
• Go: Negroni, Gin
• Groovy: Grails
• Java: Play Framework, Spring Boot
• JavaScript: Angular.JS
• Node.JS: Express, Meteor
• PHP: Silex, Symfony, Laravel
• Python: Django, Flask, Bottle
• Ruby: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra

2. Reuse Existing Components

Package managers are your friends!

• C#: NuGet
• Go: godep
• Groovy/Java: Maven, Gradle
• CSS/JavaScript: Bower
• Node.JS: npm
• PHP: Composer + Packagist
• Python: pip + PyPI
• Ruby: gem + Bundler

3. Write Functional Tests

CasperJS FTW!

4. Continuous Integration

Travis-CI, CircleCI.

5. Automate Everything

git push origin master

Always be shipping

Heroku

Why Heroku?

• It tells you to build a twelve-factor app
• Scalable, many add-ons
• Pay only for what you really use
• It works™

6. Monitoring & Alerting

New Relic, Blackfire, Papertail, Loggly, etc.

Example with Papertail

$ heroku addons:create papertrail
-----> Adding papertrail to my-app-1337... done, v18 (free)

7. Measure

Piwik, Google Analytics, Kissmetrics, etc.

See also: Cohort analysis, AARRR (Pirate Metrics).

8. Features & UX First

Then, talk to a designer.

Or maybe the other way around?

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