Tag Apps

April Apps for Super Users

  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.…

Seeking The Ultimate Goal Setting App

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…

Where Food + Technology Meet

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…

The Apps of March—SXSW Edition

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…

What Travel Can Teach Us About Web Design in 2014

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…

HeyHey Apps

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…

The Apps of the Year 2013

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…

Eat Real Essentials Interactive eBook

Eat Real Essentials is an interactive eBook designed for use the iPad. Beautifully designed, the book features all kinds of great information about healthy eating geared specifically towards busy people—something I know many of us could benefit from. In addition to…

Lotta Nieminen: Beautified App

I’m loving the design that Lotta Nieminen came up with for Beautified, an app that helps find and book last-minute beauty appointments from a curated group of top-tier salons and spas.

New iPad App: Urban World

The McKinsey Global Institute just released a fascinating new iPad app, Urban World. Urban World provides users with a visually engaging way to explore urbanization for over 2,600 cities. You can read more about the project in detail right here.…

Shop With Me on Luvocracy

Yesterday we talked visual inspiration apps. Today we’re going in a totally different direction: shopping. Luvocracy is a relatively new social shopping site where you can post finds from shops around the web and organize them into thematic collections. It’s very…

Introducing Colabs

Colabs is a new creative community currently being developed by Brooklyn-based designers Noah Akinson and Jennica Johnstone. Once launched, the site will support connections between creative individuals for the purpose of collaboration, finding roommates and workspaces. This sounds like a fantastic…

Introducing Wee Society

Creative parents will love Wee Society, a new kids brand from some of the folks at Office, “a team of moms and dads who believe in bright little minds, uncontrollable giggles and happy design.” Their initial offerings include both prints and an ipad app.