How we built a COVID-19 app that helps doctors save lives

We partnered with Brigham & Women’s Hospital to build an app that put fast-changing best practices around COVID-19 care directly in the hands of doctors.

Integrating Algolia Search with WordPress Multisite

At Upstatement, we recently wrapped up a project where one of the more notable engineering tasks was implementing global search for a large WordPress multisite network. We were tasked with revamping the web experience for a college of a…

Building Custom Elements with Web Components for the 2020 Elections

I don’t know if you knew this, but there’s an election going on. There are approximately 89 people in the democratic race and a lot of primaries coming up that could determine the future of our country. So when …

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,…