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Mobile Jazz and Worldreader

Worldreader is a non-profit organisation with a truly honorable mission, bringing free digital books to families and children in the developing world. It has received tremendous recognition, including support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mobile Jazz built the Worldreader Mobile app and collaborated with the Google Design team for a fantastic user experience. The app was built with the Android One device in mind, which has much more availability in the developing world.

The Worldreader team are a delight to work with and we’re so proud to be helping them reach their goals.

Find out more about Worldreader

Get it on Google Play

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How Do You Switch Off?

As 99% of mobiles and tablets support email and have apps for everything, it can be tough to switch off after work with emails trickling in and notifications popping up.

We take work/life balance very seriously at Mobile Jazz and we believe a happy team is a productive one. We often take company retreats but we consider that true work/life balance begins at home in day to day life.

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Southeast Asia and Oceania

Our CEO Stefan Klumpp is volunteering in an Offshore Odyssey in the South Pacific, manning a sailing boat for 3 weeks, crossing the equator north to south from Micronesia to New Caledonia. Throughout May, Stefan will be joining our Web Team Lead Fran to work from Bali, Indonesia. They’ll be documenting their experiences, so keep an eye for a full report soon!

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Insights

Discover useful insights in innovation, technology and business.

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7 Strategies To Improve Your App’s User Experience

It’s been seven years since the launch of the App Store and still, the vast majority of mobile apps are missing the mark on the basic fundamentals of user experience. Good user experience is what separates the successful apps from the forgettable ones. So how do we create a great user experience for the mobile app you’re spending so much time and money on?

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How to find a CTO/Technical Co-Founder

There’s a talent war brewing outside your office and it’s one that you can’t afford to lose. Every single day, thousands of “revolutionary” technology startups are born and the big guys like Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook continue to grow larger and more powerful. As a consequence, finding, attracting and retaining top-level technical talent is more challenging today than ever before. And tomorrow, it will be even harder.

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What, How and the Cost of Building A Mobile Application

If you’re a Spanish speaker, you may be interested in a talk given by our Mobile Team Lead Joan Martin, who spoke at Conversion Thursday last week.

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Tools

Increase productivity and make your life easier, here are just a few of the great tools and tips shared from our recent weekly hangouts.

Alfred for Mac

Alfred is Spotlight-like productivity tool for Mac that streamlines your day to day actions.

Ori the Cardboard Standing Desk

Ori is an affordable ($25), collapsible standing desk which has been available in the US and Canada for sometime. They recently announced they are shipping internationally!

Caption Bot

Caption Bot from Microsoft analyzes images and describes them with natural language.

Nope

Nope is a small, elegant magnet to cover your Mac’s iSight camera when not in use. Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning.

1Keyboard

1Keyboard is a Mac app which enables your keyboard to be used as a bluetooth wireless keyboard for other devices.


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One Final Thought

As designers and developers, we’ve all heard comments like this before! However, when we recently saw this on Twitter, we laughed but had a realization that we never hear this kind of thing anymore. So to our all our clients out there: thank you and we love you!

Pablo Garcia Roca

Pablo García studied graphic design at degree level and has been working on UX and UI for many digital platforms.