--- title: "API testing, UX innovation, and more: Friday Links and Round-Up" description: Links to Involution site discoveries and summary of the week's posts, including a pointer to the latest on Ebola. image: http://yes.goinvo.com/hs-fs/hub/356419/file-1996737273-png/flavor.png --- [Work](https://www.goinvo.com/work/) [Services](https://www.goinvo.com/services/) [About](https://www.goinvo.com/about/) [Vision](https://www.goinvo.com/vision/) [Contact](http://www.goinvo.com/contact/) - [Home](http://www.goinvo.com) - [Work](https://www.goinvo.com/work/) - [Services](https://www.goinvo.com/services/) - [About](https://www.goinvo.com/about/) - [Vision](https://www.goinvo.com/vision) - [Careers](http://www.goinvo.com/about/careers/) - [Open Office Hours](http://www.goinvo.com/about/open-office-hours/) # API testing, UX innovation, and more: Friday Links and Round-Up 31.Oct.14 by [Emily Twaddell](https://yes.goinvo.com/articles/author/emily-twaddell) ### While you wait for Trick-or-Treaters to ring the bell, here are some sites to explore. Designer Eric Benoit attended Future Insights’ [Ultimate Developer Event](https://ultimatedeveloperevent.com/boston-2014/) in Boston and shared a couple of finds. ![flavor](http://yes.goinvo.com/hs-fs/hub/356419/file-1996737273-png/flavor.png) The spice company McCormick offers a platform called [FlavorPrint](http://www.mccormick.com/FlavorPrint) that builds you a “Personal Flavor Profile” to enhance your cooking and dining experience.   ![runscope_api-test](https://yes.goinvo.com/hs-fs/hub/356419/file-2001466245-png/runscope_api-test.png) [Runscope](https://www.runscope.com/) is a tool for testing and monitoring APIs. You can also use it to compare API versions.   ![tedx_brum](https://yes.goinvo.com/hs-fs/hub/356419/file-2001466250-png/tedx_brum.png) This just arrived in my Inbox and delighted my Maker self in a big way, even if I never need to [make big red TEDx letters](http://tedxinnovations.ted.com/2014/10/31/how-to-make-the-infamous-red-tedx-with-cnc-machining/). Now I want to learn about CNC machining.   ![fast-co-UXinno](https://yes.goinvo.com/hs-fs/hub/356419/file-1999990772-png/fast-co-UXinno.png) [Fast Company’s article](http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025274/move-over-product-design-ux-is-the-future) on “experience innovation” makes our UX/UI selves happy, too. #### And from this week: Our latest offering to help address the problem of preparing to handle Ebola infection is now available: [Ebola Care Guideline—An Illustrated Process on Personal Care Equipment.](http://www.goinvo.com/features/ebola-care-guideline/) According to the United Nations Statistics Division, in 2015–2016, China will surpass the United States as the largest consumer market in the world. Be sure to catch [The Digital Life: Digital and UX News - What a Rising China Means for Product Design](https://yes.goinvo.com/articles/the-digital-life-digital-and-ux-news-what-a-rising-china-means-for-product-design). Part 5 in our Emerging Technologies series, [The Future of Design: UX Evolution](https://yes.goinvo.com/articles/the-future-of-design-ux-evolution) focuses on the future of experience design. The entire studio attended Pop!Tech in Camden, Maine last week. Read Juhan Sonin’s impressions in[ Around the Studio: PopTech 2014 Rebel Lion Reaction](https://yes.goinvo.com/articles/around-the-studio-poptech-2014-rebel-lion-reaction). Topics: [design innovation](https://yes.goinvo.com/articles/topic/design-innovation), [Business of Design](https://yes.goinvo.com/articles/topic/business-of-design), [Ebola](https://yes.goinvo.com/articles/topic/ebola) - [Home](https://www.goinvo.com/) - [Work](https://www.goinvo.com/work/) - [Services](https://www.goinvo.com/services/) - [About](https://www.goinvo.com/about/) - [Careers](https://www.goinvo.com/about/careers/) - [Open Office Hours](https://www.goinvo.com/about/open-office-hours/) - [Vision](https://www.goinvo.com/vision/) - [The Digital Life](http://thedigitalife.com/) - [Contact Us](https://www.goinvo.com/contact/) - [661 Mass Ave Arlington, MA 02476](https://www.google.com/maps/place/661+Massachusetts+Ave,+Arlington,+MA+02476/@42.4161234,-71.1563006,17z/) - [info@goinvo.com](mailto:info@goinvo.com) - [mailto:hello@goinvo.com](mailto:hello@goinvo.com) - - - - -