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Choosing your future tech stack: Clojure vs Elixir vs Go

Programming is a fashion industry. As developers, we have to keep on top of the trends or we quickly become outdated.

The Smashing Boxes Webby Awards Voting Guide

It’s the time again! The nominees for the 20th annual Webby Awards have been announced, and the site we built for Moogfest 2016 was selected in two categories

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Being a Service Designer at a Digital Product Agency

My experience at Smashing Boxes has been more exciting and boundless than I could have ever imagined. Smashing Boxes is more than just a digital product agency.

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Moogfest Website Fuses Art and Technology

UPDATE 4/5: The Moogfest website has been nominated for two Webby Awards

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Typography for the Digital Interface

Designing for digital products, specifically the web and mobile devices, boils down to doing three things: making rectangles, selecting colors, and picking out fonts.

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A React App Done Right

React is all the rage right now. And since Smashing Boxes is always all the rage, we decided that we should start using React. It all began in Smashing Labs, our weekly innovation time, when a few developers started making small apps using React.

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Be a Tech All-Star with Smashing Boxes and the New Orleans Pelicans

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve teamed up with the New Orleans Pelicans for a community event we’re calling “Smashing Boxes Tech All-Stars”. Kids from New Orleans area schools are invited to to tell us what their dream app would be!

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Essential Research Skills for Engineers

Modern software development requires a ton of research.

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