Wonder what makes Smashing Ideas so smashing? Our people! We sat down with Kevin Wick, Executive Creative Director, to talk shop, how ‘social impact’ work resonates with him personally and professionally, the top 7 tips he gives to UX newbies, and the correlation between Metallica, Plato, and design. You’ve recently joined Smashing after having
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CALLING ALL PARENTS! We are looking for kids, ages 6-10 to help us test our latest app made just for kids. Play testers will get a sneak preview of Mindful Powers™, a kid-first, holistic approach to building social-emotional learning through the power of play. Our program is based on mindfulness, the ability to know and understand
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By Kevin Swann, Strategist Insight is a strange word. It sits somewhere between the process of research and the process of making, and it’s meant to help designers and agencies know what to make and also how to make it. But, what exactly is an insight? I don’t think I’m alone in my confusion. Folks in the
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By Jeston Furqueron, Senior Developer I have designed games for about 20 years…some games were very big hits, others were decent, a lot were not so good, there were numerous bad ones, and many of them were word games. Word games are everywhere. Books penned by Lewis Caroll are still being studied centuries later for its
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Every day we inch closer to a world where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities will overhaul our personal and professional lives. The impact will be inevitable, so we sat down to ask a selection of our technical braintrust to weigh in on the following question, from their unique vantage point: From a technical perspective,
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