Interview with Charles Broskoski

Charles is one of the founders of our favorite inspiration and research tool, the weird, collaborative, wonderful Are.na.

Jest mocks roasting on an open Firestore

Recently, we wrapped up a project where we built a Native iOS and Android app and an accompanying admin tool for a client. The admin tool served as a CMS, allowing users to create content that would later appear in…

Building a Headless Mobile App CMS From Scratch

The Problem Finding a mobile app CMS to fit our unique requirements For the past few months, we’ve been building a mobile app with NativeScript-Vue, a JavaScript framework that allows us to quickly build and ship native iOS and…

See You Later, Generator

We are building a mobile app with NativeScript-Vue and Vuex that allows a user to search for events nearby. The user can specify what type of events they want and how far they are willing to travel. The API we integrated…

Interview with Maggie Shannon

Photographer Maggie Shannon has been thriving, recently working with editorial giants Wired, The New York Times, and Vice.

Last (Vuex) Action Hero

At Upstatement we’re currently developing a pair of mobile apps using NativeScript-Vue, which lets us build fully featured Android/iPhone apps with a framework we already know and love: Vue and Vuex. Apart from the general challenges of native applications…

Make Tech Research More Fun (and Effective!) with a Little Design Thinking

How engineers at Upstatement design & facilitate workshop activities You’ve probably seen the aftermath of a design workshop — Sharpies and Post Its everywhere, walls covered in confetti colored paper. If you walk around the Upstatement studio,…

Welcome to the Postdigital

We spent three decades becoming digital, what’s next? We’ve been thinking a lot about how to describe the work that we do, and the work we think we’ll be doing in the next few years. As designers and engineers, we’re…

Discussing Data Visualization with Andrew Garcia Phillips

Andrew Garcia Phillips tells stories with data. After years at The New York Times and Wall Street Journal making graphics, he moved into data visualization for sports superfans at Chartball.com, as well as freelance projects for newsrooms…

Creating Powerful Editing Experiences with Gutenberg

At Upstatement, we use a variety of content management systems to power the websites we build. When choosing the right CMS for the right job, one of the factors we consider is what the client needs from an editor.