There is a new useHistory hook in React Router >5.1.0 if you are using React >16.8.0 and functional components. import { useHistory } from "react-router-dom"; function HomeButton() { const history = useHistory(); function handleClick() { history.push("/home"); } return ( <button type="button" onClick={handleClick}> Go home </button> ); } React Router v4 …

And why ‘rapid prototyping’ isn’t enough to critically impact product design — UX prototypes can be powerful tools to explore new design concepts, challenge preconceptions, validate assumptions, and bring designs to life. Their ultimate purpose is to facilitate learnings that help effect a better product. In my experience, prototypes that have had a critical impact on a product’s design were those that:

How I built an Alexa-powered rotary phone with a Raspberry PI and some LEDs — TL;DR — I built Alexa into a rotary phone and setup the rotary dialer to trigger actions on my other Alexa devices. Parts required an old rotary phone a Raspberry PI 3 a bread board (used in development) a USB mic (dismantled and rewired) a 1/8" mono patch cable (rewired) a couple…