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Responsive Typography: rem, em, and px
Intro Dealing with type on the web can be a challenge, especially when you have to account for the ever-changing range of screen sizes. Ultimately the font size(s) you use for headings, body copy, and whatever else directly effects the layout of you page, and when you’re dealing with dozens, or even hundreds of pages…
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Responsive Typography: rem, em, and px
Intro Dealing with type on the web can be a challenge, especially when you have to account for the ever-changing range of screen sizes. Ultimately the font size(s) you use for headings, body copy, and whatever else directly effects the layout of you page, and when you’re dealing with dozens, or even hundreds of pages…
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Why We Sold HunchLab
We sold HunchLab, our web-based predictive policing and patrol management system, in the fall of 2018. Our CEO outlines why.
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Reducing Road Crashes with DRIVER
Over 1.3 million people are killed on the world’s roads every year. More than 30 million suffer life-changing injuries. Based on current trauma levels an estimated 400 million people will be killed or injured between now and 2030. Source: IDB Road crashes are a leading cause of death globally, but these deaths occur mostly in…
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A Year of QA at E84
A little over a year ago, I was looking to leave my previous position at a large consulting agency. At the time, I was working as a business analyst and was wearing a few too many hats. I was looking to transition away from the waterfall-heavy role and more into a design-based role, such as…
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How We Select Projects
As a mission-based organization, how we select the projects we pursue is an ongoing conversation at Azavea. We share our thought process here.
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High Stakes, Hard Certs
Deciding to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional exam at re:Invent. This certification is considered one of the toughest to achieve in IT, and it lived up to the hype. It was brutal. So brutal in fact, that after seeing that I passed, I questioned why I took it, whether it was worth it,…
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Giving Form to Temperate’s Identity
Part two of our design process series details how we established Temperate’s brand in a saturated industry, with the product’s goal driving decision making.
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Problem-solving by asking questions
The first in a two-part series, this blog post details how we solved a design problem by asking questions in building our climate adaptation planning app.
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AWS Enables Temperate
We recently released Temperate: A new climate adaptation planning companion for cities. This blog explores how AWS, and the data they host, fueled this app.
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E84 Lab Notes: Machine Learning with SageMaker
In a previous post we showed how the E84 R&D team used RoboSat by Mapbox to prepare training data, train a machine learning model, and run predictions on new satellite imagery. In this example, we’re going to use the same imagery source and label data as a proxy for data produced by our AWS disaster…