Make T+L your Start-Up Open House Destination

Come on down to visit Teehan+Lax for this year’s edition of Start-Up Open House Toronto. That’s next Thursday, October 30, from 4-7pm (Entrance on East side of building) We'll be here to showcase and chat about some of the start-up work we've done recently and give you a hands-on tour of the lab.

How-To: Socket.IO & Swift

Note: I am not an iOS developer. I’ve only recently dived into Swift.

Written by on September 3,2014 in Development, Labs

We are The Net Awards Agency of the Year 2014

On Friday, we were named the 2014 Net Awards Agency of the Year. What makes this award very special is that it was awarded to us by our peers.

Written by on May 14,2014 in News

Success

We make things. You, reading this, make things; directly or indirectly. We work to make and support things.

Written by on May 8,2014 in How We Work, Strategy

Affordances matter

This isn’t news, but the shift key in iOS 7 is broken. That is to say, it is functional, it just doesn’t work.

Written by on April 16,2014 in Design

The State of In-Car UX

We are surrounded by bad design. You witness it when you’re taking cash out of an ATM.

Written by on April 9,2014 in Design

iOS 7 GUI templates will ship inside of Sketch 3

I'm really excited today to share the news that our iOS 7 GUI template is going to ship natively in Sketch 3 (Sketch 2 shown above). No longer will you need to Google 'iOS GUI Sketch' and download the file from our site.

Written by on March 31,2014 in Design, News

Zen and the Art of Insight Generation

It’s not even really up for debate. “Insight” is one of the things we value most in the world of creative problem solving.

Written by on February 25,2014 in How We Work, Strategy

Don’t go chasing waterfalls

Waterfall. Agile. Lean. Extreme. Kanban. If you think I’m naming new exercise fads, you’d be wrong. These are just a handful of different Project Management methodologies and processes.

Written by on February 10,2014 in How We Work

Krush iOS Architecture

At Teehan+Lax, we’ve been working on a project called Krush for several months now. Krush is an interesting application from an iOS architectural standpoint because it touches on a lot of common areas that iOS newcomers have questions about.

Written by on February 4,2014 in Development, How We Work

Developing Design

Oftentimes, the word “design” is seen as being synonymous with “appearance.” It is with this mentality that many companies run their businesses – separating design (or appearance) from development (functionality). However, in the world of interactive and web design, functionality plays an equally significant role in the design process.

Written by on January 22,2014 in Design, Development, How We Work

Model-View-ViewModel for iOS

If you've been developing iOS applications for any length of time, you've probably heard of Model-View-Controller, or MVC. It's your standard approach to building iOS apps.

Written by on January 14,2014 in Development