Blog | OOZOU

We Are NOT Family

Other than the fact that you spend a lot of time with co-workers, this is where similarities between family and work end.

What I've learned while working as a product designer at OOZOU

A wonderful transition from a typical UX designer into a full-fledged product design career.

Seeing Through Your Customers' Eyes with Customer Impersonation

Any website with customer support will eventually face an issue that is difficult for the customer to explain or difficult to understand without seeing what they are seeing. With the pretender gem we can log in to the users account and see exactly what they are seeing.

Joe Woodward

29 Jul, 2020

A Product Owner’s Blurb on Keeping It Raw and Scrappy

How keeping your product documentation to a viable minimum can help you move faster, and provide value to your users.

Hicham Abdelkaoui

29 Jul, 2020

Standardizing RESTful JSON APIs with OpenAPI Spec

For as long as I can remember, developing JSON APIs has been a bit of a free for all. We've had the power to create complex APIs quickly, but typically every API follows its own standards. There've been some unwritten rules and sharing of ideas, but never has there been such a complete specification as the one that the team over at OpenAPI has developed. Let's explore what OpenAPI has to offer and why I welcome this specification so enthusiastically.

Joe Woodward

29 Jul, 2020

Aliasing All the Things to Improve Your Development Experience

If you're in programming for the long run, alias all the things. Trust me, it's going to save your fingers and improve your day-to-day life as a developer.

Joe Woodward

29 Jul, 2020

Custom Attribute Types in Rails 5+

Back when Rails 5 was released a new attributes API was introduced to us. It allowed us to take advantage of a type casting mechanism that had long been used internally in Rails.