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Jan 02 - 2014

Bikestorming & Tectonica: Creating a New Open-Source Mobile App with an Environmental End

  (Abajo encontrará una versión en español) As part of our initiative to collaborate with innovative and socially beneficial local projects, Tectonica recently partnered with Bikestorming on the development of the mobile app ¨Bikecheck¨ that...
Dec 20 - 2013

Tectonica Announces the Opening of Its Training Program

(Abajo encontrará una versión en español) We at Tectonica consider ourselves lucky to have had such success over the last couple of years, working on such amazing and important projects as the Labour Party, Rhode...
Jan 18 - 2013

Tectonica´s New Digs!

I am very excited to announce that Tectonica has some great new digs. Both Mar and I consider ourselves very lucky to have an abundance of amazing clients with inspiring projects since we began Tectonica....
Oct 16 - 2012

Think of User Engagement First

I had one of the most frustrating website experiences ever this morning. The reason why that was so might surprise you. It was not simply a matter of poor design - it was the failure...
Jun 21 - 2012

Tectonica Named to NationBuilder Architects Program

We are happy to announce that we have been named by Nationbuilder.com as part of their NationBuilder Architects Program. The program is a selection of top notch designers hand picked by the NationBuilder's Lead Designer,...
Jun 19 - 2012

How Tectonica Got Its Name

We are often asked how we got our name. There has been more than one person who has asked us, “what exactly does ‘Tectonica’ mean”? Others have asked us, “ how did you develop a...
May 29 - 2012

Worth a Thousand Words

There is nothing quite as sad as seeing a great web design ruined by terrible photos. I can recall on several occasions, watching clients upload amateurish, poor quality photos onto a finely designed website we...
Apr 25 - 2012

Non-Profits: Make Your Website Your Outreach Centerpiece

A lot of non-profits think of their websites as afterthoughts –something that they feel they have to do because they are supposed to. Which is not surprising considering most non-profits are understaffed and overwhelmed with...
Apr 12 - 2012

Revision Time: Making the Most of It

Website construction is an entirely collaborative process. The creation of an amazing site depends not only on a talented designer, but also on a client for articulating a vision, attentiveness to the project, knowledge of...
Apr 12 - 2012

Taking Time for Quality

Everybody is excited to have their website completed. Often this leads people to create artificial or unrealistic deadlines. Other times, there are actual forces that necessitate that a site be completed by a specific date....
Apr 12 - 2012

Keeping the Ship Sailing in the Right Direction

The process for creating a website is generally a linear one. Unfortunately, there is not a great amount of room for backtracking once past a certain phase. Each time we need to backtrack, it takes...
Apr 12 - 2012

Bells & Whistles: Why its Good to Wait

Now we know that you’ve seen stuff out there on the web and thought “wow, I want that on my site”. Trust me, we’ve done the same thing. But please take caution when attempting to...