Over the last couple of years we’ve completed a number of fun projects. Some of them for clients and some just for fun... but one thing they all have in common is a sense of fun, experimentation and exploration! Check them out below.
It can be difficult to meet people at web conferences, so we built Hello App to make it easier. With Hello App you can check into your seat, display your skill set and make contact with the people around you. We also inserted a gaming element to the app that allows you to gain points and win badges. We've already used Hello App at a number of our conferences and it's been a blast.
Special thanks goes out to Matt and Redgate who dontated their time and skills to help build Hello App.
As you probably know, we produce events and workshops for web people. The thing is, not everyone can afford to come, especially the kids (school leaving age). These guys have some pretty amazing ideas and a lot of passion for the web, so we thought we'd put on a small and free two day event here at Carsonified HQ called 'Summer Camp'. We had a ton of applications for Summer Camp from which we choose eight to join us here at Carsonified for two days of talks, inspiration and fun. It was an amazing experience for everyone. Check out the showreel we made from the event.
In 2009 Carsonified teamed up with Joel Spolsky and Stack Overflow to produce the Stack Overflow DevDays world tour. The Stack Overflow DevDays tour visited seven cities across the USA as well as London, Cambridge and Amsterdam.
We also had a bit of fun with the DevDays site design. Check out the use of the Parallax scrolling technique we used on the background.
For our third 'Four Day Project' we designed and built a Mobile Web Widget. We also made twiggy.carsonified.com to explain how to build one.
A Mobile Web Widget is basically a mobile app that performs a specific task, like keeping you up to date with the weather or the latest sports results. Our Mobile Web Widget was a simple Twitter Search facility. Mike designed the Twiggy website and the Twiggy App UI while Elliott Kember built the Widget.
Web people who attend conferences are used to getting some schwag so we decided make something really special and unique for our attendees. We created the Carsonified Journal. A completely bespoke journal made from scratch using recycled paper and card. Mike also created a number of unique hand drawn illustrations which are dotted thoughout the journal.
In June 2008 we embarked on our second 'Idea Week'. We built MATT. MATT stands for 'Multi Account Twitter Tweeting' and it's an App that allows you to tweet a single message from multiple Twitter accounts.
We built Matt to see if it was possible to launch a simple web app in four days - everything from design, to development to marketing. We also wanted to play around with Django, Git, the Twitter API and some other nifty tools.
We blogged and filmed the whole week in hopes that the experience would be useful for all of you. Hope you enjoy.
We at Carsonified are not normally found blanket stitching and shaping felt - email, Twitter and RSS is usually our cup of tea. This site and our custom-made Hugs stem from a project called Idea Week.
We gave ourselves the challenge of dreaming up, making and then launching a project within one week, and Hugs - a range of covers for MacBook Pros and iPhones - are the result!
The whole idea was to take a break from digital life and produce something really analogue and handmade. We designed and sewed each Hug and then gave them away. It was a total blast!
Have you ever needed to send a large file, but couldn't because it was too large to attach to an email? That's exactly why we built DropSend. It was our first major web application and thankfully, it was a runaway success. So much so in fact, that it was acquired in 2008.
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