May 2010
2 posts
Developing Swatch 2.0
When you start developing a 2.0 version of your app, it’s like your kid graduating from high school. Either nothing really changes and the kid just goes to work, or you send him to college and then receive him a few years later, nearly unrecognized by his own mother by how much he changed.
As we love our apps we want the best for them, so we send them to college. For Swatch this meant...
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Swatch 2.0 - News
You may have seen our tweet (http://twitter.com/fuelcollective/status/13809299828) the other day with a little preview of what Swatch 2.0 will look like. We still have a ton of work to do on Swatch 2.0 but we wanted to share some insight with everyone. Swatch 2.0 has been completely rewritten from the ground up and has a few new features that I think everyone will enjoy. Some of which have been...
April 2010
2 posts
Making Permute
I’d like to talk a little about making Permute and what the process was like. Why Permute? I think it has been by far our best executed application in terms of both design and functionality. We did a lot of things right and learned quite a lot in the process. What was different about Permute from the others? We had a much more clear vision, we went to the people, and we had experience.
We...
Adding Features
One of the hardest things to decide when we’re working on our apps is what features get added, which we hold off on, and which we just don’t have room for or don’t fit in our vision of the app. Lately we have been trying to take the approach of 37signals and take in all suggestions and then delete them or resolve the issue with a nice reply.
Now I don’t want to give the...