Ex-Nasa man to plant one billion trees a year using drones

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A drone start-up is going to counter industrial scale deforestation using industrial scale reforestation. BioCarbon Engineering wants to use drones for good, using the technology to seed up to one billion trees a year, all without having to set foot on the ground. 26 billion trees are currently being burned down every year while only 15 billion are replanted. If successful, the initiative could help address this shortfall in a big way.

Source: Ex-Nasa man to plant one billion trees a year using drones

A Comparison of Animation Technologies | CSS-Tricks

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Source: A Comparison of Animation Technologies | CSS-Tricks

A really nice overview of pros and cons of current (2016) animation technologies. Some of the main points below. For detailed information, visit the link

Native animation

  • CSS
    pros: great performance, responsiveness.
    cons: chaining multiple animations complicated, quirkiness in css+svg
  • Canvas
    pros: really nice for interaction, good performance
    cons: difficult to make accessible, difficult to make responsive, not retina-ready
  • SMIL
    cons: losing support
  • Web Animations API
    pros: Easy sequencing of animations, good performance
    cons: Support is not great, specs still changing
  • WebGL
    pros: Really good in interactive and 3D effects, amazing visual effects, hardware-accelerated, VR-possibilities
    cons: Tougher to learn, hard to make responsive

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How To Take Charge Of A UX Kickoff Meeting – Smashing Magazine

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I once worked with a digital agency that didn’t know how to hold a kickoff meeting. And they didn’t even know that they didn’t know. Weeks into every project, they’d simply find themselves frustrated over how they’d ended up in a position of following rather than leading. They would fight to get their good ideas out the door but end up on defence all the time when their clients came back screaming with arguments based on whim and vapor. The agency just couldn’t figure out how to establish itself as the UX leader of its projects, despite being hired to play exactly that role. I’m not even sure they recognized what it meant to lead.

Source: How To Take Charge Of A UX Kickoff Meeting – Smashing Magazine