Many of you may find the following situation familiar:

UX Designer: Could you improve this view so that when you make a selection here both of these charts are updated?

Software Developer: Hmm… No, I can’t.

or:

UX Designer: Could you make change X (which looks like it would be pretty straightforward) that would improve the UX of this view enormously?

Software Developer: That’s completely impossible because we didn’t design our framework to acommodate that use case. I could do it but we would need to make a major re-architecture and re-design of our application that would affect all these other views. There are also these 300 things with higher priority right now.

Well, I know I do. Particularly on the developer side of things.

Dev Talk Monday is the series that brings you awesome dev talks every Monday… or Thursday XD

As you might know I love unit testing and TDD. I have been a little bit worse than usual at it in the last months though. Hence I said to myself, let’s look at a dev talk and get my test inspiration back up. And so, here it is, this awesome talk about how to stop hating your tests by the very charismatic justin searls.

And finally this is the last article on the books I read last year. There’s books of every size, color and topic in this one. From financial advice, to sales teachings, to biographies, mindfulness and getting things done. Take a look, you may find something you like.

2015 was a year of tons of UX focused work for me. These are some of the books that helped me step up my game :)