Digital Tales From 2 Days in Seattle
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This past weekend we had the great fortune to join the gang from Creative Social for their latest global event in Seattle. For this group of talented ...
Category: Art & Code
Jackson • Best of the Web: May Edition
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It may seem like we’re crazy about apps, but we like the web too. The question is, what’s the future of the web? Is it dying? Are apps taking over...
The Graveyard of User Interface Design
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Even though Apple just sold another 43.7 million iPhones last quarter, countless products, screens and interfaces have apparently missed the memo on ...
April Apps for Super Users
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Last week we read a study claiming that 176 million users open their apps more than 60 times per day. These app “super users” are beyond addic...
Is the Nike FuelBand the DeLorean of the Wearable Tech world?
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Well that was fast. While we were all eating delicious Eastery dinners, it looks like Nike spent the weekend uninstalling most of its FuelBand team an...
The Return of R.B.I. Baseball
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Nearly 30 years ago, one of the greatest video games of all time was born. R.B.I. Baseball, an absurdly rudimentary game for Nintendo in 1986, with it...
Seeking The Ultimate Goal Setting App
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After the countless weather apps in the App Store, the next most popular apps for start-ups and creatives to tackle are the almost bottomless pits of ...
Finding Digital Inspiration in our Neighbourhood
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What do a hip coffee house, a curated general store, a popular sandwich joint, a trendy shoe shop, and a new superfood store have in common? For start...
Did Google figure out wearable technology?
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This past weekend we noticed a tweet about Alicia Keys out for a run in St. Barts. It was only remarkable because she was taking selfies, not with her...
Where Food + Technology Meet
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The intersection of photography, social, and our insatiable desire to eat tasty animal parts and vegetables means that there is a constant stream of d...
The Apps of March—SXSW Edition
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Graham and I were having a bit of a dialogue over the weekend about what hot apps were going to come out of SXSW this year. He’s there on the ground...
Down the Rabbit Hole of Social TV
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A recent study from TiVo says that 76% of television viewers prefer to just watch what is on the TV rather than be distracted by the multitude of mult...
Design and Facebook’s Newest $16 Billion Toy, WhatsApp
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Last week Facebook bought popular messaging company WhatsApp for $16 billion (Yes with a b), giving the social media company yet another crown jewel i...
The Era of Publishing
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Just as it was with print, editorial design on the web is always an exciting playground for designers. And today pretty much everyone is in the editor...
Apps We Love—Valentine’s Edition
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This week is Valentine’s Day. What better way to indulge in this manufactured holiday than to share our love of all things digital and talk about a ...
What Travel Can Teach Us About Web Design in 2014
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One category that is every designer’s dream playground is travel. Great photography, unlimited adventures, and huge user experience challenges. Ther...
Are we ready for some Jelly?
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In the immortal words from the poet of our generation, Beyonce, “I don’t think you ready for this jelly.” Turns out, 13 years later per...
Interfaces of the Future – A preview from CES 2014
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Last week, Vegas played host to yet another hangover edition the future gazing. This year, CES was a global consumer electronics orgy of nerdom. A wee...
Responsively Redesigning the New, New York Times
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For their New Year’s resolution, The New York Times is launching a beyond ambitious redesign of their future web experience and their first sinc...
Digital Design Trends to Look Forward to in 2014
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Here’s a little secret about us. Part of the reason we founded a digital agency in the first place was to ensure that we’d always have the latest ...
HeyHey Apps
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There’s some joyful noise, color and ideas coming out of Ghent, Belgium, where HeyHey Apps is making iOS a more creative space for children. HeyHey ...
5 things we hope Santa puts under our tree just by looking at their websites
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The fact that a simple, often one page, website can create completely irrational consumerism in a human is awesome, isn’t it? That web design can he...
The Apps of the Year 2013
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There are over 1,000,000 apps in the iTunes store. Imagine trying to search through them all to find the ones we think could be called ‘tops’ in t...
Mobile Creativity and the Louis C.K. Effect
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Making killer designs and big impact on the small screen is hard, but it shouldn’t be mission impossible. Comedian Louis C.K. had a very funny bit a...