The UX London experience
From 10th to 12th of April, London became the UX capital of the world. The best people in the field gathered around for inspiring talks and intensive workshops. Covering all the talks during the three...
View ArticleFive Minutes takes part at WinDays13
During the next few days the city of Umag is the centre of the ICT industry. WinDays13, the biggest IT conference in the region, is being held there from April 22nd till 26th. Two of our experts,...
View ArticleFlaster won first prize at D-Day
This year’s international festival of design held in Zagreb presented the best young designers from Croatia and neighbouring countries. During the last four years D-Day has become an important venue...
View ArticleNew people on the block
A great service starts with great people. We’ve been on a hiring roll lately, and have yet to stop. During the last few months we have hired a number of excellent people who have joined our UX/UI...
View ArticleJedan po jedan, pedeset i sedam!
Ako niste znali, trenutno brojimo 57 ljudi. Samo u 2013. godini smo zaposlili 19 ljudi, a najbolje od svega je da do kraja godine planiramo zaposliti još 5 do 10. Nije loše.Danas vam ovdje...
View ArticleDeveloping for Chromecast, a $35 Internet-to-TV streaming stick. Worth your...
It’s been over two months since Google made a splash with Chromecast, a 2-in gizmo that plugs into your TV’s HDMI port and can be controlled by more than one device – phone, tablet and computer – if...
View ArticleGit tips and tricks
In a few short years Git became one of the most popular source control management system, especially for newly started and open source projects. If you’re a developer, you’ll eventually cross paths...
View ArticleThe Android Cookbook
From small and affordable to powerful and large, nearly 80% of all newly shipped smartphones in the world use some version of the Android operating system. Primarily designed to be flexible, Android...
View ArticleCipele46: A recap of our first community hackathon
This July we hosted our first open hackathon in the office. The purpose was to bring together a number of clever and creative people to collaborate on a project for the community in a short period of...
View ArticleNapster partners with Five Minutes for international application development
Five Minutes was chosen as a strategic partner in developing mobile applications for the first subscription digital music service in the world, Rhapsody, which offers its services in Europe under the...
View ArticleHackathon project: Bitbucket2Asana
We at Five Minutes work on projects of various sizes and complexities. But since we are primarily a mobile development shop, often the projects last for just a few months and they overlap in different...
View ArticleTaking notes with SweetPicks!
We are pleased to announce that SweetPicks, a note-taking iPhone app that we have developed for one of our clients, has been launched in the App Store.A large part of being productive in our personal...
View Article2012 Year in Review
It’s the end of the year, and the holiday season is the right time to for the review of the year 2012. Fortunately, there are no parallels with the eponymous disaster movie title – we ended up with 43...
View ArticleIf you like it, then you should put a Diamond in the Rough ring on it!
Diamonds are girl’s best friend. And so are mobile apps. Especially ones which will make you feel like a princess just by using it. Diamond in the Rough is one such iPhone app and we’ve just launched...
View ArticleSmart First, Phones Later
December 1995, American Airlines Flight 965 departed from Miami on a trip to Cali, Colombia. The pilot selected the wrong entry from a list of nearby navigation fixes starting with “R” — whose latitude...
View ArticleIncomplete user flows – risky business
Lots of mobile apps start out as simple sketches on a piece of paper. Those sketches are then transferred to digital wireframes with the help of wireframing tools. Some projects and companies stop here...
View ArticleHow to create an interactive blur effect in iOS8
iOS8 introduced an interesting visual effect: when you pull down your home screen to reveal the search field, the background gets blurred. This blur occurs in an interactive fashion, as you completely...
View ArticleThe shape of materials to come
After the presentation of Material design this year, we couldn’t wait to see the new guidelines from Google. Animations became essential for screen designers, and Google gave us a preview where this...
View ArticleCode Review, Five Style
Code review. That dreaded moment when a team gathers around for a series of soul-crushing criticism, indulging in fist fights even, over the legitimacy of their own ugly, but still their own,...
View ArticleSolving the binding problem with Swift
In a fight for great software architecture, our hands are often tied by the shortcomings of frameworks or languages we work with. Simple tasks like downloading a photo and presenting it in a view,...
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