Jason is ReignDesign’s new Interface Designer. Jason grew up in Los Angeles and later moved to Seattle where he studied both design and psychology. Since then his tireless work ethic has seen him practicing design in all media: graphic, industrial, web, video, and motion graphics. Jason ran a small design consultancy in Seattle for two …
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Camille Christian joins ReignDesign
Camille joins ReignDesign as a executive assistant. Why we’re really proud to have her as part of the team: Camille is like a super-woman, she is extremely smart (got best grades of her year in college), knows how to kick ass (trained in all sorts of martial arts since she was 3 years old) and …
Happy Chinese New Year from ReignDesign!
We had a busy year of the horse! 2014 was the first year for our new Chile office. We explored iBeacons, helped people swipe through their support tickets, attended cool events like Barcamp, CocoaHeads and GMIC, got kicking for the World Cup, helped a local entrepreneur, made some Shanghai street signs, figured out a more agile …
Anukriti Verma joins ReignDesign
Anukriti Verma joins ReignDesign as a Visual Designer. Next to creating visual designs for interfaces, she is passionate about user experience and product strategy. Hailing from New Delhi, India, she is a graduate of the IDC IIT Bombay. During her studies, she took on the humongous project of creating a beautiful typeface of 280 characters of …
Merry Christmas!
Hello there! Since Christmas is almost here, I wanted to give my colleagues a special gift. And drawing is what I do best – since I am a graphic designer, so I decided to do a Holiday version of each of us. Since we’re in three different countries, I thought this would bring us together …
Educational Games: Not Just Child’s Play
I recently presented at the Game Developers Conference China on the topic of Educational Kids’ Apps. Here’s a summary of my talk. We all know that kids really love tablets: the immediacy of interacting on them, the games they can play, and the creative opportunities. But what do their parents think? A lot of parents’ …
Preparing for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus screen sizes
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be aware that Apple announced two new iPhone models yesterday, as well as a nice piece of jewellery. For iOS app developers and designers, one of the most significant changes is to the screen sizes of the new iPhones, which differ significantly from what came before. The …
There are Two Ways to Build a Pyramid
There’s an old story about two pharaohs. Both wanted a magnificent pyramid to house their tombs, so each hired a pyramid builder. The first builder started constructing his pyramid from the base and working upwards. However, one day, the pharaoh suddenly died, and the pyramid was left incomplete. The pharaoh was sad (and dead). The …
A better way to ask “how much would it cost to develop this app?”
As an app developer, a question you are very used to hearing is “how much does it cost to make an app”. It’s also a question you quickly learn to dread. Why? Because providing an accurate fixed price for designing and developing a mobile app is next-to-impossible. Worse, comparing fixed-price quotes from different companies is …
ReignDesign attending GMIC Beijing 2014
Matt is attending GMIC Beijing 2014 today and tomorrow, and guest-blogging for the GMIC Blog! GMIC is the major mobile internet conference in China, and this year’s theme is “mobilising the next 5 billion”. You can read updates from the event on the GMIC blog or follow ReignDesign on Twitter for live updates and photos. …
CocoaHeads Shanghai
On Thursday, May 8, ReignDesign will host the next CocoaHeads! CocoaHeads is a monthly meetup group for iOS developers and designers in Shanghai. The theme will be Beacons and Bacon. We can guarantee interesting talks about iBeacons, but there may be a shortage of the food of the gods. Spaces are limited, so if you …
Making your own Shanghai street sign
At my recent engagement party we had designed some personalised Shanghai street signs! A lot of people asked me how to make one, so I thought I’d provide a tutorial. If you’re not familiar with Shanghai street signs, this is how modern signs look! You’ll still find older green signs around Shanghai, but all signs in …