Art & Code Archives - Design Work Life https://designworklife.com/category/art-code/ Design inspiration & how-tos for your everyday work and life. Tue, 27 May 2014 16:51:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://designworklife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-dwl-icon-32x32.png Art & Code Archives - Design Work Life https://designworklife.com/category/art-code/ 32 32 Digital Tales From 2 Days in Seattle https://designworklife.com/digital-tales-from-2-days-in-seattle/ Tue, 20 May 2014 23:48:47 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=81137 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 creative folk from across the globe, and for the record a heavy emphasis on socializing, we were lucky enough to experience some incredible speakers, and better yet, some […]

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]]> Best of the Web: May Edition https://designworklife.com/best-of-the-web-may-edition/ Tue, 13 May 2014 19:30:21 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=80735 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? Or are websites coming back in vogue as social media sites don’t give the organic reach they once offered brands? When apps continue to crush […]

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]]> The Graveyard of User Interface Design https://designworklife.com/the-graveyard-of-user-interface-design/ Tue, 06 May 2014 13:00:12 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=80336 Even though Apple just sold another 43.7 million iPhones last quarter, countless products, screens and interfaces have apparently missed the memo on why design matters. Of course there are exceptions to every category and every rule, but it’s frustrating that in 2014, poor interface design continues to be ubiquitous in a variety of places where humans […]

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]]> April Apps for Super Users https://designworklife.com/april-apps-for-super-users/ Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:00:02 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=80020   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 addicted to their phones, so it’s no wonder that every week even more apps are launched. This month we bring you a selection of inspiring apps for caffeinating, traveling, photography, and […]

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]]> Is the Nike FuelBand the DeLorean of the Wearable Tech world? https://designworklife.com/is-the-nike-fuelband-the-delorean-of-the-wearable-tech-world/ Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:00:42 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=79531 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 and casting doubt on the future of the entire wearable technology industry. The story had been quietly rumbling around for a week as social network Secret had seen multiple posts about the […]

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]]> The Return of R.B.I. Baseball https://designworklife.com/the-return-of-r-b-i-baseball/ Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:00:11 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=79212 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 its arcade style, simple graphics, and epic TV commercials was just too good to stay in the dustbin of history. Like being lost in the dessert, we’ve survived on […]

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]]> Seeking The Ultimate Goal Setting App https://designworklife.com/seeking-the-ultimate-goal-setting-app/ Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:12:55 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=78795 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 to do lists and goal setting apps. It makes sense, creative people are always trying to find some secret formula to improve upon the good old fashioned Moleskin to […]

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]]> Finding Digital Inspiration in our Neighbourhood https://designworklife.com/finding-digital-inspiration-in-our-neighbourhood/ Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:00:35 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=78579 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 starters all 5 are featured right in our quaint Vancouver neighbourhood, Gastown. For another, this neighborhood is what Complex magazine once called the 4th most stylish in the […]

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]]> Did Google figure out wearable technology? https://designworklife.com/did-google-figure-out-wearable-technology/ Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:00:39 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=78161 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 phone, but with her iPad. To many this was clear proof that wearable technology is a necessity for us to live better lives. The real question […]

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]]> Where Food + Technology Meet https://designworklife.com/where-food-technology-meet/ Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:00:22 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=77747 The intersection of photography, social, and our insatiable desire to eat tasty animal parts and vegetables means that there is a constant stream of delicious apps, websites, and businesses making food increasingly digital. Here are 6 tasty digital dishes to snack on: The Best Caesar Usually when you call yourself out as the best, it […]

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]]> The Apps of March—SXSW Edition https://designworklife.com/the-apps-of-march-sxsw-edition/ Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:00:36 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=77366 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, and I was hoping he’d unearthed an Indiana Jones-sized cache of sweet new apps. When he texted back from parts unknown in Austin, Texas, […]

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]]> Down the Rabbit Hole of Social TV https://designworklife.com/down-the-rabbit-hole-of-social-tv/ Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:00:19 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=76970 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 multitasking options at their fingertips. They probably also preferred steak and lobster dinners to kale chips too if you had asked them that. Whether they like it […]

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]]> Design and Facebook’s Newest $16 Billion Toy, WhatsApp https://designworklife.com/design-and-facebooks-newest-16-billion-toy-whatsapp/ https://designworklife.com/design-and-facebooks-newest-16-billion-toy-whatsapp/#comments Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:00:48 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=76709 Last week Facebook bought popular messaging company WhatsApp for $16 billion (Yes with a b), giving the social media company yet another crown jewel in mobile application domination after Instagram and Facebook itself. It was shocking that WhatsApp would cost this much given that Google was able to pick up Nest for a mere $3.2 […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/design-and-facebooks-newest-16-billion-toy-whatsapp/feed/ 1 The Era of Publishing https://designworklife.com/the-era-of-publishing/ Tue, 18 Feb 2014 19:19:04 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=76346 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 editorial and publishing business. As Gary Vaynerchuck puts it, almost daily across his social channels, “Everybody in the world is a media company. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a […]

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]]> Apps We Love—Valentine’s Edition https://designworklife.com/apps-we-love-valentines-edition/ Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:00:46 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=75903 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 few of 2014’s hottest apps? From re-imagining the news feed, to the quantified life, or the redesign of the infernal calendar, these apps are leading the way in […]

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]]> What Travel Can Teach Us About Web Design in 2014 https://designworklife.com/what-travel-can-teach-us-about-web-design-in-2014/ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 14:00:10 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=75510 One category that is every designer’s dream playground is travel. Great photography, unlimited adventures, and huge user experience challenges. There are thousands upon thousands of travel websites and online experiences, and new ones are launching faster than old ones can keep up. It doesn’t get more competitive than this space, and that’s why you see […]

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]]> Are we ready for some Jelly? https://designworklife.com/are-we-ready-for-some-jelly/ Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:06:25 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=74940 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 perhaps Mrs. Jay Z was wrong—seems like we might be ready for some sort of jelly after all. For the record, Jack Dorsey beat us to this logical conclusion, but how many […]

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]]> Interfaces of the Future – A preview from CES 2014 https://designworklife.com/interfaces-of-the-future-a-preview-from-ces-2014/ Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:16:06 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=74087 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 week of learning about what our digital future might look like, or more likely what it probably won’t ever really become. This year we learned about how our washing machines […]

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]]> Responsively Redesigning the New, New York Times https://designworklife.com/responsively-redesigning-the-new-new-york-times/ Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:15:45 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=73676 For their New Year’s resolution, The New York Times is launching a beyond ambitious redesign of their future web experience and their first since 2006. Offering a new experience, the requisite press release promises a “cleaner, more engaging user experience” that will define the future of the paper’s digital edition. On Twitter, Rhodri Marsden cut […]

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]]> Digital Design Trends to Look Forward to in 2014 https://designworklife.com/digital-design-trends-to-look-forward-to-in-2014/ Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:00:02 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=73030 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 and greatest technology and digital products. That fun also extends to making wildly unscientific prognostications on what may or may not happen in the next 365 days […]

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]]> HeyHey Apps https://designworklife.com/heyhey-apps/ Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:00:04 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=73006 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 Apps, a three-man software studio based in Belgium, focuses on bringing creativity to children through clever, thoughtful design in their iOS apps. The characters, colors and feel of their apps […]

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]]> 5 things we hope Santa puts under our tree just by looking at their websites https://designworklife.com/5-things-we-hope-santa-puts-under-our-tree-just-by-looking-at-their-websites/ Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:00:29 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=73016 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 help sell a product is amazingly powerful. That it can absolutely crush a Kickstarter campaign or make you go from a Tweet to using your credit card is like when […]

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]]> The Apps of the Year 2013 https://designworklife.com/the-apps-of-the-year-2013/ https://designworklife.com/the-apps-of-the-year-2013/#comments Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:00:30 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=72343 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 the past year. But it wouldn’t be the holidays without a best of the year wrap-up. Get your drum rolls ready; here is our top five that maximize […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/the-apps-of-the-year-2013/feed/ 1 Mobile Creativity and the Louis C.K. Effect https://designworklife.com/mobile-creativity-and-the-louis-c-k-effect/ Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:00:37 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=72252 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 few years ago about just how ridiculous it is when your mobile website or app isn’t working instantly. “Give it a second,” he said, “It’s going to space. […]

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