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8 Pro Tips for Effective Prototyping
We’ve talked about how prototyping plays a part in our creative and development processes. Recently we’ve seen an uptick in interest among clients and momentum building, which is very exciting for us here at R/GA. With one of our major clients we’re now hearing the rallying cry internally, “Powerpoints don’t win customers!”. The benefits of […]
Published by Nick Coronges
Posted: 2012-07-31
Filed under: Best Practices, Design
Twitter Tea Time: What’s Happening at Twitter
Over the last couple of months Twitter has been hosting a series of events for developers in their San Francisco HQ. However, because they felt they were excluding a lot of developers that work with their platform they started to sponsor Developer Teatime to share insight with the community and help spread more knowledge of […]
Published by Jonathan Solarz
Posted: 2012-07-17
Filed under: Events, Industry, Technology
Mike Scoops the Popular Press
Six months ago we published: “Comparing Food Trucks and Software Development” http://techblog.rga.com/software-as-a-food-truck And today InformationWeek publishes “What Food Trucks Can Teach IT Pros” http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/240003234 Stay tuned for Mike’s stock market predictions…
Published by John Mayo-Smith
Posted: 2012-07-16
Filed under: Technology
Browserless JavaScript Testing
As users expect more sophisticated AJAX, animation and event functionality, the amount, and complexity of Javascript code is increasing. Even small sites and RIAs can contain 100’s of lines of Javascript code. With the increase in complexity comes the potential for bugs. Writing clean code matched with lots of testing is what’s required to keep projects […]
Published by John Tubert
Posted: 2012-07-10
Filed under: Browsers, Technology
Nexus Q & High Voltage Plasma Arc
All music in this video captured live and emanating from the audio modulated plasma arc situated at the upper rudder of the metal toy. “Yellow submarine playing yellow submarine.” Happy 4th of July everyone!
Published by John Mayo-Smith
Posted: 2012-07-03
Filed under: Technology
Google I/O
“Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.” – Ivern Ball A handful of R/GA attendees were the lucky ones who got a place to sit at the filled-to-capactity Android sessions; we were also thrilled to be part of the keynote audience while athletes descended in wingsuits overhead. However, in my opinion, so far, the most inspiring […]
Published by John Mayo-Smith
Posted: 2012-06-28
Filed under: Technology
10 Tips for Avoiding Frontend Single Points of Failure
Last week I had the pleasure of attending an eye opening chat by Google’s Steve Souders at Etsy’s Code as Craft Technology Talk. He focused on Front End Single Points of Failure. Steve made the point that redundancy is not just for hardware. It’s important that our code gracefully recover from failed dependencies. This would […]
Published by Eloy Anzola
Posted: 2012-06-26
Filed under: Design, Events, Technology
Richard Ting on Cannes of the Future
Richard Ting reports having a great time at the Cannes Google+ Hangout working with luminaries and Lion award-winning impresarios. “One of the first panels that I participated on in a virtual plus hangout. Very cool to be a part of a Cannes event while situated in Hell’s kitchen, NYC. It’s Just like Cannes (without the […]
Published by John Mayo-Smith
Posted: 2012-06-25
Filed under: Technology
R/GA at Cannes
The following post was written by Nick Law, Chief Creative Officer from Cannes: In some of its ads, Nike claims to give athletes an “Unfair Advantage”. This week at Cannes I felt as though it was R/GA that had an unfair advantage. We had our best week on our industry’s biggest stage, thanks to […]
Published by John Mayo-Smith
Posted: 2012-06-23
Filed under: Technology
Using Data to Create a Global Browser and Device Matrix
In an ideal world, any technology project would be able to support all browser and device combinations. The reality is that there are always going to be some users who have ‘the wrong browser’. Clients want to reach as many people as possible, but especially for global brands who operate in a large number of […]
Published by Anthony Galvin
Posted: 2012-06-21
Filed under: Browsers, Technology

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