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Design Forces in Ekawada, Part 5

In making Ekawada a free app, one of my hopes is that people with little or no experience with string figures might be tempted to download it and give it a try. But a list of string figures and some cryptic instructions are...

Design Forces in Ekawada, Part 4

For many people, string figures are games that they learned as children, and haven’t touched since. The years are rarely kind to memory, so what this means is there are a lot of people who remember doing figures, but can’t remember wha...

Design Forces in Ekawada, Part 3

String figure books are great resources, but they can be incredibly frustrating, too. Even if you’ve never tried to use one, it’s not hard to imagine having a string looped around your fingers, trying to hold the book open with your kn...

Design Forces in Ekawada, Part 2

In my previous post, I talked a bit about one of the “forces” that influenced the design of Ekawada, my as-yet-unreleased string figure catalog app for iOS. In this post, I want to talk about another of the forces that affected the app......

A look inside Ekawada’s design

Around the time I was thinking of doing a native iOS app for cataloging string figures, my co-worker (and master designer) Ryan Singer posted this article and video about “designing with forces”. My take-away from it was that you don

Screen Printed Poster Series

Part of my job here at Hashrocket is to not only provide design support on projects, but to introduce design into the culture. While my day-to-day mostly focuses on the web and related fields of design, I can't help but find ways to try and design things that aren't normal for a web development firm.

Part...

Hello, HeyBrainstormr.com

If you follow me on twitter, you might have heard that we launched a little project that we’ve been cooking up at Planet Argon. (news post)

HeyBrainstormr is a lightweight web application that we created so that we could start a brainstorm on a specific topic and solicit ideas from each other....

RailsBoxcar.com 2.0

In case you missed the tweet from Alex ...

Twitterrific

Our team just designed, developed, and deployed a new site for, Boxcar, our streamlined deployment environment for Ruby on Rails applications.

Boxcar

Feel free to take a tour to learn more about our product plans, which...

Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist

As mentioned in a recent post, I’m hoping to share some lessons that were learned throughout the process of launching a client project. Over the past few years, we’ve been part of several dozen client projects and the big launch date is always an anxiety-filled, yet exciting point for the client and our team....

Google Chrome: discuss

I’m sure that most of you heard the news that Google is releasing a new web browser named Chrome. Their comic for the announcement was very refreshing and entertaining read. Granted… nobody that I know has seen it (as of today)...

For me, I’m really interested in seeing what they’ve done to hopefully improve...