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2012 round up part 5 – Madefire
We here at MB are getting reflective, thinking of all the great projects we got to be a part of last year and pondering what 2013 may have in store for them. One of our biggest achievements of the year…
App store: Best of 2012
Last week Apple declared its App Store Best of 2012, and we have been thrilled to see some familiar faces among the crowd! For the second year in a row Showyou, the disruptive video sharing app and Ness, the peer…
MB work featured in Apple launch
Apple held a small product launch yesterday – you may have heard whispers of it. And today, in-between the oohing, aahing and excited commentary, we have been ecstatic to see some familiar faces featuring on the launch site of…
You Are Not Your Design
On Tuesday we had visitors from Carnegie Mellon’s design program in our San Francisco studio. 15 bright-eyed students were given a tour, walked-through our process, and were shown a live demo of our Kinect hack, Hand Drawn. We then fielded…
Branded UI
Ownable user interface elements are as much a part of Brand as color, type, and messaging. Flipboard owns the “flip gesture”, the pinch is synonymous with Apple, and the new app Clear has gained traction through their simple swipe-to-complete-task. This…
FastCo launch their InnovativeNess rankings
Fast Company have launched their annual list of the World’s 50 most Innovative Companies. No surprises that the top four spots go to Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon respectively. Slightly more controversially, Square edged out Twitter for the number 5…
Super Bowl 2012: talking dogs, ticked off grandmas and one heck of a day off
It’s that time of year again. There may not be any particular festivities to be had, nor anything relative to the typical English viewer’s watching. But when 110 million people tune in to watch a great American past time reach…
15 Observations from CES 2012
MBSF’s Nick and Scott headed down to CES in Vegas last week. Here’s a beginners guide to what went down, and some eye-witness footage of the highlights everyone is talking about: 1/ Gesture based UI is going to play a…
2011 Round Up Part Four
For me, 2011 was the year when tech didn’t just connect to me, but to each other as well. Suddenly using the Internet and owning an iPhone went from being a geeky past time, to a genuinely useful way to…
