Creating digital products requires a special combination of postures and disciplines. It’s a team sport where each individual often works in isolation for set periods of time. This means that we have to be extra intentional about the way we approach our work. …

‍tl;dr — Making experiences in Augmented Reality is fun; Crema decided to try our hand at a holiday-themed effect; we created a neat scene-switching mechanic; our project file got corrupted and our friend helped us solve it; we learned valuable lessons along the way. Great Augmented Reality experiences are like…

“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.” — Dennis Gabor Most articles trying to predict technology trends will tell you that solutions like chatbots, AMP and SEO optimizations, and innovative voice search tools are all going to be big in 2021. But you already knew all of…

Welcome to this brief mini-series focusing on the Why, What, and How of being a developer at Crema. Note that I’m pulling heavily from language that our team worked on to refine each of these points. Development is a team sport! Designing effective workflows is an important part of any…

Welcome to this brief mini-series focusing on the Why, What, and How of being a developer at Crema. Note that I’m pulling heavily from language that our team worked to refine on each of these points. Development is a team sport! We have a simple mission as developers: We design…

Originally published at www.crema.us on May 13, 2019 Throughout the course of our two-day developer conference in San Jose, California, we shared exciting new updates and innovations to explore the relationship between technology and human connection. This year’s event featured 70+ sessions and offered hands-on experiences with Facebook’s products and…

Creating an app for iOS/Android was once a daunting task. Often the skill, time, or cost were prohibitive factors that held people back from building something great and getting it deployed to the App Store(s). Many toolsets have attempted to solve these problems, including (but not limited to) React Native…

The app/web development industry is in a funny place. There’s no real way to know whether you’re on track for a long, fulfilling career or whether you’ll be replaced by a robot in 6–12 months. …

I love the simple elegance of podcasts, specifically ones that are audio-only. The medium affords an easy-to-digest bundle of information with a personalized touch. You can listen to one episode or subscribe to hundreds of them and still feel a connection through the conversational format. This just in: video has not killed the radio star. Over the years, the tools…