Announcing The Mobileys produced by Mobile Future
We’re thrilled to introduce The Mobileys, a brand new competition that rewards entrepreneurs who look to inspire change through mobile innovation, produced by Mobile Future and conceptualized/ designed...
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Rackspace Startups Website Redesign
We love working with Rackspace for their unique combination of racker savvy and scrappy start-up style. When we had the opportunity to work on the Rackspace Startups website redesign together, we knew...
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Behind the Scenes: GE Trade Data Visualization
The Task: We partnered with GE to create a bold, intellectually engaging, and visually striking data visualization that shows relationships between variables around global trade. Executing the concept...
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CourtPlay’s Brand and Digital Platform Launch
CourtPlay, the brainchild of two die-hard tennis enthusiasts and professional coaches, came to iStrategyLabs with a clear mission: streamline the scheduling process between tennis coaches and players,...
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Behind The Scenes: Natural Markets Food Group Web and Social Strategy
In 2013, Natural Markets Food Group (NMFG) expanded their flagship restaurant and market concepts — Richtree Natural Market Restaurants and Mrs. Green’s Natural Market — across the US and Canada, and...
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RobotsConf 2013 Recap
The inaugural RobotsConf event was held on Dec 6th-7th at Amelia Island, Florida. As a whole, the event aimed to be “A Software Developer’s Hardware Conference,” bringing software developers of all...
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The LED Cave Sign: Powered By Electric Imp & Arduino
As our company has continued to grow our desire for common work space has increased. We recently decided to turn our “Dev Cave” into a multipurpose meeting area — allowing for our team to take client...
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Take An Instant Selfie With This Magical Mirror
Meet S.E.L.F.I.E., the “The Self Enhancing Live Feed Image Engine”. Triggered by simply standing in front of the mirror and holding a smile, hidden LED’s indicate a countdown, then simulate a “flash”...
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What’s it like to be a student at General Assembly?
Since January, the DC tech/start-up community has been abuzz about General Assembly, an educational institution that offers courses, classes, and workshops in web development, product management, and...
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Join iStrategyLabs – Get a Free Dog or Two
The recruiting and hiring process sucks. A great team just wants to find another great team member. Simple, right? The B.S. associated with job boards, recruiters, posturing/positioning/perk-promoting...
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Meet Transit, The Latest In Commuter Technology
Lately, I have been obsessing over the Electric Imp, a small internet connected device that allows makers to do some pretty awesome things. Where it truly excels is pulling in live data from APIs....
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The Power of “I Don’t Know”
I’d say in most of life, but particularly in development, sometimes the best answer to a question is “I Don’t Know.” I am a huge fan of the Freakonomics podcast series, and was recently listening to...
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Introducing Gennifer: The Latest In Data Generation
Here at ISL, we eat, sleep and breathe social. As you may or may not know, our Grandstand platform specializes in taking social interactions and doing things as simple as data visualization to more...
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Airmail: Major Security Vulnerability?
Internet security and cryptography have always been a huge interest of mine and are topics that are becoming increasingly more important for people to understand. To further my knowledge of the...
View ArticleInvestigating Browersify: The Development Tool That Lets You Write Modular...
A while back, the engineering team adopted AngularJS as the front end JavaScript framework of choice. Not every project we work on requires a framework like Angular, but when we need one — it’s where...
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What It’s Like To Be A Teacher At General Assembly
Teaching is something iStratetyLabs fully supports — nay encourages — for its employees both internally and within the community. We have a multitude of opportunities to both teach and learn from our...
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The Facebook “Mentions Box” Goes Live At The Emmy Awards
Facebook, already the biggest brand in social media, was looking for a better way to bridge the gap between celebrities and fans, specifically at live events. Behold: The Facebook “Mentions Box” which...
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DoubleTree App Redesign: Behind The Scenes
DoubleTree Hotels first approached us in 2013 to redesign Home & Away, their app that acts as a concierge for business travelers staying at DoubleTree properties. When we initially looked into...
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Swept up in the stream: 5 ways ISL used Gulp to improve our process
ISL recently switched our front-end build system from Grunt to Gulp. Our primary motivations for switching are Gulp’s preference for code over configuration, node streams, and asynchronous tasks by...
View ArticleThe Dev Digest: The Hottest Engineering News From ISL & Beyond
There is a lot to cover from the past couple weeks! Our very own @clarepolitan returned from EmpireJS armed with new and amazing JS and accessibility knowledge! From diving into virtual reality in the...
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