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ReignDesign 6 months retreat

Monday, August 24th, 2009

2009年8月21日-8月23日,ReignDesign举行了半年一次的公司会议,议题主要是对以往工作的总结,以及对公司未来的工作等等进行一系列的规划。

经过大家的讨论,地点选在“上有天堂下有苏杭”的苏州,这里我已经迫不及待的要为大家展现我们这次有着特殊意义的苏州之旅了。

下图为21日早上前往苏州的动车组上,开心的瞬间

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Welcome the latest member of the ReignDesign team…

Friday, August 7th, 2009

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I'd like to extend a hearty welcome to the latest addition to the ReignDesign crew. Say hello to Nabby! Nabby is a Nabaztag, a hackable robotic rabbit. She comes equiped with an audio system, 5 powerful LED lights, and a set of moving ears. Not to mention a dead-simple web API to interact with her. Did your last hire have all that?

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The Great iPhone Promo Code Giveaway!

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

free All day tomorrow (Wednesday 5th August) we'll be giving away promo codes for FREE copies our iPhone apps on our @reigndesign Twitter account!

If you'd like to get your hands on a FREE copy of Spot the Difference, Bible Promises or Obama Quotations, just look out for our tweets tomorrow. For 24 hours we'll be giving away one free app every 30 minutes - but it's first come, first served!
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Weekend hack: Posting to Twitter via SMS in China

Monday, July 6th, 2009

twitter-smsTwitter provides phone numbers to allow you to update your status via SMS. Unfortunately, local numbers are only available in a few countries: the US, Canada and India. Elsewhere, you need to text their international number in the UK, which can be quite expensive. ReignDesign is based in Shanghai, China - so how to update Twitter for the price of a local SMS? Via a local Twitter-like service Fanfou.com, and a simple PHP script, it's possible!
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Design an iPhone app in 15 minutes… then build and publish it in a day!

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

At Barcamp Shanghai this weekend, Matt held a session called "Design an iPhone app in 15 minutes". After a couple of minutes of introduction, teams had to grab paper, stencils, glue and scissors, and mockup a concept for an iPhone app as quickly as possible! When the time ran out, each team had 30 seconds to present their idea.
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Can you Spot The Difference?

Monday, June 8th, 2009

If you have been listening outside our office recently, you may have heard phrases like this:

"I can finish in thirty seconds!"
"Come on, it's so tiny! How do you expect me to find it?"
"I can't see ANY difference!"
"My girlfriend loves this kind of game"
"Done!!! I told you I'm superman!!!"

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An unexpected side effect of long meetings

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Menger Sponge 1Since we mostly work with clients remotely, I have a lot of teleconferences and Skype meetings. I tend to get fidgety, so I started making Business Card Menger Sponges using old name cards with our previous office's address. A Menger Sponge is a kind of 3D fractal, or, in layman's terms, a fun cubey thing. (more...)