Dogtown Media Happy Hour to Benefit Blood Cancer Patients
Blood cancer. It’s something that happens to other people, right? Unfortunately, it’s all too common, and can strike at any time — a fact that hit close to home for us at Dogtown this past December, when the brother of one of our team members was diagnosed with a rare for of leukemia. The fight […]
What “Anti-Smartphone” Products Have To Teach Developers
App fatigue is an epidemic, and smartphone users feel more overwhelmed by technology than every before. The proof is in the market — and KickStarter has demonstrated widespread public interest in a series of unique “anti-smartphone” products that strip down the phone until it’s basically a flip phone in a smartphone shape. Case in point: the […]
Dogtown Media Tackles Tech Education with Jikei University
In a continuation of Dogtown Media’s commitment to tech education, CEO Marc Fischer accepted an invitation last week to speak with visiting students from Tokyo’s Jikei University. During the talk, Fischer touched on the startup industry, the many ways that tech is re-shaping the international world, and how it has enabled students of this generation […]
How the MedTech Revolution Will Use Mobile to save Lives
If you don’t think medical app developers have the power to save lives, don’t mention it to the doctors at Hahnemann Hospital. In a study from 2015, doctors at the institution experimented with a mobile notification system to encourage patient follow-ups. Readmissions dropped by 16 percent. New upgrades to medical laws in the US (and […]
Outsourcing App Development: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
“Go ahead and outsource.” People are always surprised when we tell them this. We get dozens of questions about offshoring every week, and the people asking always expect us to steer them away from it. After all, we’re an LA-based app development company — why would we encourage someone not to work with us? The […]
Some of the Biggest Tech Products Started as Side Projects
What do Gmail and Facebook have in common with a Post-It Note? The fact that they all started as side projects. More than any other industry, tech has offered developers and designers the chance to rapidly prototype their ideas — however off-the-wall or unrealistic — and bring them to market with minimal investment. iPhone app […]
Explain Like I’m Five: UX vs UI vs Graphic Designers
You say tom-ay-to, I say tom-ah-to. I say UX designer, you say “what’s UX exactly?” Of all the roles in a mobile app development company, the roles of the various types of designers are often most confusing to newcomers. In this post we’ll explain the difference between UI, UX, and graphic designers. More importantly, we’ll […]
4 Mobile App Metrics your Startup Needs to Know
Developing a high-quality iPhone app is just the beginning of the battle; once your iPhone app hits the Apple App Store, fine-tuning the product management side of your startup becomes the name of the game. For design-minded iPhone app developers, this is easily the hardest part of the growth process. How do you know if […]
Startup Applies Tinder UI/UX to the Democratic Process
In a political season where it sometimes feels like everybody and their brother has run for the Republican presidential candidacy, Voter, a startup touted as “Tinder for the government,” brings a fresh breeze of simplicity to the decision-making process — on the voter’s end, anyway. Like any successful iPhone app developer, Voter looked at a […]
Dogtown Media Ranked as a Top Los Angeles App Developer
We’re excited to announce that Dogtown Media has recently been named among the Top Los Angeles App Developers by Washington, D.C.-based research firm Clutch. Clutch asked mobile app development companies, like Dogtown Media, to provide information about the services that they provide, as well as case studies, portfolio items and a list of notable clients. In […]