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Which Festival Does UX Best?

1 Aug 2016

Which Festival Does UX Best?

When summertime comes, it’s a chance to get outside – barbecues, picnics, swimming, hiking, camping. And for many, it also means summer music festivals. Festivals of all genres and interests are organized every year around the world and are inseparable from the technology that makes it all happen. And it’s not just the technology that appears at the festival (like jumbo screens and holograms of dead artists). It’s also how we connect to the festival, before and during the event, that completes the experience. From schedules, to buying tickets, this is a comparison of the online experience of a few well-known (and some unknown) festivals.

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Portland Home Buying: A UX Perspective on Listings

24 Jun 2016

Portland Home Buying: A UX Perspective on Listings

For those who are in the process of buying a house, receiving your region’s multiple listing service (RMLS) via email is a common way of getting real time updates on houses that match your criteria. This post examines some of the issues I’ve experienced first hand using this information, and some solutions that might make the experience a little more enjoyable.

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Portland's 63rd Fastest Growing Private Company

17 Jun 2016

Portland's 63rd Fastest Growing Private Company

Planet Argon made the Portland Business Journal's Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies list this year!

Congrats to Abby, Annie, Beth, Brian, Carl, Carlos, Casey, Charly, Corinne, Emily, Jack, John C, John L, Jonathan, Kathryn, Neil, Olivia, and Patrick. We all couldn't have done this without you. 2015 was quite an adventure. #PBJ100

Also, huge thanks to all our clients, friends, family, friendly competitors for your role in this.

We 💙 you,

Robby and Gary

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What Sketch Can Learn From Fireworks

10 Jun 2016

What Sketch Can Learn From Fireworks

The designers and front-end developers at Planet Argon started transitioning from Fireworks to Sketch in early 2015. I can do most of what I want to do in the Sketch quickly, efficiently, and intuitively. There are, however, a handful of Fireworks features that I would love the Sketch developers to emulate.

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There's always a catch with 'free'

2 Jun 2016

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