The premise of a hackathon is simple. Technology enthusiasts come together to brainstorm and come up with solutions to a given challenge within a short time frame. The tech-based solutions are demoed and judged, a team is deemed the winner of the hackathon, they are awarded a prize, and more often than not that’s the […]
The Level Up team is thrilled to announce our new strategic partnership with Stick & Hack. We will be pairing our expertise in product design and development with their passion and knowledge of the golf world to create a one-of-a-kind digital golf community. Get to know: Before we dive too far into exactly what we […]
Wow, what an awesome GIE Last month I made some predictions about what cool stuff we would see. Let’s see what I hit and what I missed! Here were my predictions: We will see more commercial full-electric offerings, as well as more residential machines. There will be a hybrid machine this year (We will review […]
The beauty of using a framework like React is the reusability of its components. This makes React a great choice when you need a UI that is capable of changing certain aspects dynamically, while still re-using components across the application… a few examples would be buttons, form elements, re-used layout components, and anything else you […]
How does a person today want and expect to interact with the machines they use? Most people think we can just add a bunch of electronic controls that look good on paper. But the thing is, if we start adding electronic controls for the sake of adding electronic controls, then we are going in the […]
Context is more than location When we think of ‘context’, we usually think of location, as in where someone is when they are doing something. Are they at their desk or walking to an appointment? While location matters, it’s not the only facet of context that informs pragmatic design. A holistic contextual picture can answer […]
Data is information, information is knowledge, and knowledge is wisdom. Right? Well, not exactly. As Miles Kington once said, “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” In the same way, knowledge is using the information from your users; wisdom is not defining them by it. […]
The typical – Design Thinking – designing for a target audience that you know nothing about. During a recent project we were faced with designing for a target audience that we knew nothing about. This is where Design Thinking excels. Especially when it involves new ways of solving problems. Design Thinking is a mindset that […]
