Monthly Archive for August, 2009

Carbon Five at SXSW 2010

We’re planning our return to Austin for the South by Southwest interactive conference with a session we have put together with the folks at Aardvark. Titled The Experiment is the Product: Innovation through Iteration, Rob Spiro and I are going to break down how we merged our Agile software development practices with their user-focused and research-driven product design process.

There’s great stuff about cheap and fast prototyping and testing techniques, building feedback loops in to product design, and how to come up with emerging product definition that can drive an iterative software development process.

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Code Formatting in Xcode

Working in Xcode I almost forgot how much I like IntelliJ’s code formatting tools. Luckily for me Mike Smith recently pointed out that UniversalIndentGUI can be used to setup your own code formatting in Xcode.
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Once Upon a School, Hot and C5 in Fast Company

I was just forwarded a great writeup in Fast Company of the work Hot Studio and Carbon Five did for Dave Eggers and 826 Valencia on Once Upon a School. Truth be told, the article is primarily on Hot’s fantastic contribution to the project. Check it out!