Designing for digital products, specifically the web and mobile devices, boils down to doing three things: making rectangles, selecting colors, and picking out fonts.
React is all the rage right now. And since Smashing Boxes is always all the rage, we decided that we should start using React. It all began in Smashing Labs, our weekly innovation time, when a few developers started making small apps using React.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve teamed up with the New Orleans Pelicans for a community event we’re calling “Smashing Boxes Tech All-Stars”. Kids from New Orleans area schools are invited to to tell us what their dream app would be!
Modern software development requires a ton of research.
An actionable solution to the age-old question, that 980 million Google results have not quite answered: how to play music at work.
Every Friday, we at Smashing Boxes take four hours out of the day to play and explore our own personal interests and, for the past few months, I’ve been interested in Clojure.
In episode 8 of the Next Matters Most podcast, Nick Jordan sits down with Pierce Freelon about what is happening in the world today and what he wants to do about it. Pierce has always been a voice for change and does not have a stop sign in sight! Pierce talks about what everyone can do to help misunderstand and misrepresent groups in our businesse
In episode 7 of the Next Matters Most podcast, you will meet (future) Nobel Prize Winner Doug Speight is a 5x entrepreneur, innovation commercialization expert, and current founder and CEO of Annex Tech Partners. This man on a mission has lofty goals: to change the way the tech industry operates; close the wealth and opportunity gap for women and
Mental well being is Don’s business and he really knows his stuff. Nick and Don question why there isn’t more focus on the emotional well being of workers in the workforce, how to design the workplace and workforce of the future, and what it means to strive for authentic happiness. Can software or technology be built to assist in this movement towa
As COVID-19 changes the course of our country’s education, what will be left behind when the dust settles? How can we use the pandemic as a springboard to incite changes that have been on the verge of existence for a long time? The value of cultural norms such as a college degree is changing by the day, alongside the way in which institutions deliv
With the evolution of technology and the availability of information on Google, is using an attorney to help your business still important? Where does the balance exist between doing your own research to save money and paying a professional to save time? It turns out that, even in the midst of increased automation, sometimes the use of an attorney
In the midst of a pandemic, the task that many of us are focusing on is how to “return to normal.” The goal for many is the go back to the way things used to be before COVID-19 drastically changed life as we know it. Why does that have to be the case? Why can’t we use this time to get to a better version of how the world used to be? With a virus tu
Nick talks with Eric Porper, Co-Chair of the North Carolina Blockchain Initiative, about his work in helping politicians encourage technology as an industry, and helping them adjust to the fact that companies are expected to incorporate tech into their business plan, whether or not they identify as a tech company.
What does it take to be an entrepreneur? In modern-day America, it’s easy to think of entrepreneurship as something that’s untouchable – only accessible to those who have an excellent education or an incredible mind. Nick talks with Jes Averhart, creator of the Reinvention Roadmap, and Founder of Jess and Co.