tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55187555502684162082010-04-28T19:07:19.783-04:00<a href="/index.html"> smackerel home </a> | <a href="/smackerel_recent_work.html">recent work</a> | <a href="/selectedwork01.html">past work</a> | <a href="/black_white.html">biased history</a>Davenoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518755550268416208.post-34677819064620710582010-04-28T19:01:00.004-04:002010-04-28T19:07:19.790-04:00

I just saw this video of Tom Wujec speaking at the TED conference in 2009. In the video, Tom delivers a very entertaining lateral-thinking parable. Different teams are given the task of building a tower out of sticks of spaghetti. Apparently, young kids are 3 times better at this task than business school grads. via Boingboing  We worked with Tom a long time ago, and its great to see him

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518755550268416208.post-79417845450565362282010-02-25T17:53:00.002-05:002010-02-25T17:53:40.490-05:00

The good news is smackerel has been really busy this winter, (though we're always available to talk about your future projects.) The bad news is, our own website needs a major spring cleaning. We promise to give it some loving attention as soon as we've hit some big deadlines in March.

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As mentioned here a few weeks ago, Blackberry lacks a community of designers such as the iPhone has — people who freely share their assets and make their entire community more efficient. I made these wireframe elements in September, while working on a series of Blackberry apps. At that time I found nothing useful to help me get started; having created this work from scratch, I resolved to share

Davenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518755550268416208.post-90050098708924904862009-12-07T16:18:00.001-05:002009-12-07T16:31:22.096-05:00

If you have the budget to develop for two mobile platforms, its iPhone and what? Clients say 'Blackberry', because every exec is issued one on their first day. Their consultants say 'Android' because of charts like this one, that show only two platforms are gaining audience. On the O'Reilly blog, Marc Sigal took a good hard look at Android, and wrote this 1800 word essay on what's good (carrier

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518755550268416208.post-9107517058579639192009-11-18T13:39:00.003-05:002009-11-18T17:28:26.935-05:00

Last summer, iPhone’s App Store had over 50,000 apps; Blackberry’s App World had just 2000. Today, there may be 100,000 apps for iPhone. What's behind this dominance? Are iPhones that much better? Recently, smackerel was working on a series of mobile apps for both Blackberry and iPhone. Designing for both platforms, side by side, gave us some perspective on the 25:1 preference for Apple’s

Davenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518755550268416208.post-89358921090823137102009-11-18T13:37:00.000-05:002009-11-18T13:37:55.420-05:00

Congratulations from smackerel, to our client Rosetta Stone, and their marketing agency HZDG. From over 1,400 entries, the Rosetta Stone website won Best Web Design (Non-Flash) in the semi-annual American Design Awards. We're thrilled to have a firm like HZDG helping to tell our client's story! Visit www.americandesignawards.com to learn more about this honour.

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