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Simple Android Networking 22 Aug 2013 | 06:54 pm
Labs projects and experiments tend to be coded in a very messy way. This is not surprising, as the nature of rapid prototyping is fast and ever-changing. For this reason, we pick languages and toolkit...
Reproducing the iOS 7 Mail App’s Interface 20 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
iOS 7 introduced a whole new visual layer applied to its existing information architecture. One of the more interesting changes it made to the familiar gestures was how it augmented the swipe-to-delet...
Killing Big Strategy 15 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
I started working at Teehan+Lax a year ago. I am often reminded by Dave Gillis, one of the partners here, of something I said shortly before I was hired: “Any good Planner or Strategist worth their s...
When to Drop iOS 6 Support 12 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
iOS users tend to update their phone’s operating system quickly – probably due to the over-the-air update system. We know from experience that when iOS introduces new features, users expect apps to ta...
It’s OK to Fail 1 Aug 2013 | 11:53 pm
I’ve been taking UBC’s Creating and Managing the Analytical Business Culture, a course focused on the non-numbers side of measurement & analytics; culture, frameworks, etc. I was inspired by this part...
How to Start Developing for iOS 7 Now 31 Jul 2013 | 06:58 pm
iOS 7 is still in beta and will stay unreleased until the Fall. In the meantime, developers have their hands on the new OS and the iOS 7 SDK. That means that they can begin developing applications wit...
Migrating to iOS 7 17 Jul 2013 | 07:05 pm
Last month, Apple unveiled iOS 7, surprising the iOS industry not only with the direction of the changes in the new OS, but also in their magnitude. A whole new visual look-and-feel and an extensive s...
Checklists for Creative Work 12 Jul 2013 | 07:05 pm
If you have worked in a creative discipline long enough, you have no doubt had to deal with a project that didn’t turn out the way you hoped. There are many reasons why expectations and outcomes can b...
Why we’re an XOXO Festival Patron (again) 21 Jun 2013 | 08:11 pm
Last year, I was intrigued by a Kickstarter started by Andy Baio for something called the XOXO Festival. The Kickstarter page at the time was pretty vague. The description was “A festival this Septemb...
Getting Started with ReactiveCocoa 22 May 2013 | 07:08 pm
Note: This is going to be a slightly more technical post geared toward our friends in the iOS developer community. In my previous post, I covered high-level aspects of ReactiveCocoa, the Objective-C f...
