Pradeep Singh Notes

Google Developers has launched a certification program for software development agencies. Agencies can now apply to get certified and listed under Google developers’ certified Agencies. Google recommends an agency should have expertise in Google technologies and experience in building high-quality apps to be certified for the program. You can watch the introduction to Google developers agency program below. Google has already listed more than 15 Agencies in its directory and is inviting for more applications from the interested agencies. Google Developer Agency program helps agencies to receive dedicated training and access to their latest products and APIs. The certification can be really useful to agencies to gain recognition and validity to their high-quality work. Apart from being helpful to Agencies, the certification can also be helpful to others that are looking to hire agencies for their development works. Google had previously published Outsourcing Pl...

Design platform webflow has released a free ebook teaching the basics of design - Wed Design 101. The book published online has twelve chapters that go in details about the Visual design, Web Design, and Design Process. The book is mostly a beginner's guide suitable to refer to the basics of web design. To give you an idea, here's what the chapters look like; CHAPTER 1- Essential visual design principles for web designers  CHAPTER 2 - Color theory  CHAPTER 3 - Web typography 101  CHAPTER 4 - How element spacing works  CHAPTER 5 - UI design essentials  CHAPTER 6 - Designing for mobile  CHAPTER 7 - How to design interactions effectively  CHAPTER 8 - Building high-performing websites  CHAPTER 9 - How to design landing pages that convert  CHAPTER 10 - Why your design process should start with content  CHAPTER 11 - Always choose prototypes over mockups  CHAPTER 12 - The essential pre-launch checklist ...

What does the global internet community look like? Apart from top-level domain names such as .com that has 123 million registrations, what other domain names mark the global chart? An interesting study from Nominet reveals some surprising data on the global internet use. The result is a map visualising the online world based on the number of registrations within each country’s internet domain* —Example, .uk for the UK, .de for Germany, .cn for China, and so on. Here's what the online map and list of the countries look like. Don't forget to check out the full report that has some surprising results for countries like the USA and Tokelau??

Want free sketch templates for several devices? Sketchsheets.com brings ready to print device templates for UI and UX designers for free! The website lists sketches for several devices including iPhone 5, iPhone 6, iPad, Galaxy Note 5, Web, and Apple Watch. All the downloadable files contain a blank and dotted grid template in .png and .pdf formats. Here's what one of the sketches for iPhone6 in both Landscape+Portrait modes for iPhone6 Portrait Scrolled-x1 and Landscape Scrolled-x1 for the Blank version. The project is also available on GitHub making it easier for download and use for Gulp users. Visit Sketchsheets.com and start downloading the templates you need for free! Oh and you can suggest a device too!

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are three companies that have reached the 1 Billion users mark for their products and services with Google alone dominating with 7 of its products. See the below chart to see the companies and the timeline of their products to reach the Billion users mark. Google's seven products include: Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Android, Chrome, and Play. Interestingly, one of the most valuable companies Apple has yet to reach that mark! Infographic Source

Knowing how to code is one of the most important skillsets that one can have today. I am sure coding and being able to talk to computers will become more and more important in the near future. Coding can be soon important as learning Maths or Science as a child in school. It will be an important skill as Communication or any other basic skill. I love resources that can help learn coding - both to learn for myself and to recommend others. I mostly use Treehouse and Lynda.com as part of my regular learning but both of them are paid platforms and it might not be accessible to everyone. It's always interesting to explore some innovative ways (even better when it's free) to learn code. One such collection that caught my attention today is the Product Hunt collection of Learning to Code. If you aren't familiar with Product Hunt collection, it's a list of top products for a subject (in this case coding) voted on the platform. Explore a list of apps and resources ...