What might the future of art look like?
PressPausePlay
23 Jan 2012
Observations of an Android to iPhone convert
23 Jan 2012
I bought a Motorola Droid in the summer of 2010. I wanted a smartphone so I could check my email on the go, replace my aging GPS, and browse the internet occasionally. I bought a Droid because Amazon had a great deal (it was basically free), and I wanted to be able to do whatever I wanted with it. I rooted it within a week of getting it since that was the easiest way to get the updated version of the Android OS at the time.
I was really happy with the extremely easy and tight integration with all of the Google services I used (email and calendar mostly). But my wife really wanted a smartphone as well, specifically an iPhone. I was against the idea because I knew she’d have questions about how to use it, and without one of my own I’d be in the position of supporting two kinds of devices. When I started working for Planet Argon where everyone has an iPhone, I encountered my first small disadvantage…
Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse - a mobile workshop
17 Jan 2012
Last night, I was fortunate enough to participate in a dry run of Jason Grigsby and Lyza Danger Gardner’s WebVisions New York mobile workshop- the somewhat awkwardly titled “Zombie Apocalypse of Devices Preparedness 101.”
On open-plans and groupthink
15 Jan 2012
From an Opinion piece in the New York Times by Susan Cain.
“But it’s one thing to associate with a group in which each member works autonomously on his piece of the puzzle; it’s another to be corralled into endless meetings or conference calls conducted in offices that afford no respite from the noise and gaze of co-workers. Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted. They’re also more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, stress, the flu and exhaustion. And people whose work is interrupted make 50 percent more mistakes and take twice as long to finish it.”
Very interesting…
Our Plants
13 Jan 2012
There are more plants than people in the Planet Argon studio, and we felt it was time to tell their story.
The Elements of Style
12 Jan 2012
Smart advice on how to present written information to your users.
Gesture recognition
3 Jan 2012
Impressive stuff.
2011 Year in Review
30 Dec 2011
As we look forward to 2012, we’ve also been taking time to reflect on this past year. There are a lot of new faces, a lot of personal stories, and it seems that we’ve been able to squeeze out a lot of projects for both our clients and ourselves.
Responsive Design for Brainstormr
23 Dec 2011
Brainstormr is a microsite that works well within the immediacy and simplicity of mobile web use, so we made it into a responsive design.
McMenamins hires Planet Argon
10 Dec 2011
We've added McMenamins as a new client! Welcome!