{"id":48,"date":"2007-10-01T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T23:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/2007\/10\/01\/teknision-branded-applications-and-agile-design\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T17:24:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T23:24:59","slug":"teknision-branded-applications-and-agile-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/2007\/10\/01\/teknision-branded-applications-and-agile-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Teknision, Branded Applications, and Agile Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Ottawa this week, I had the chance to chat with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teknision.com\/\">Teknision<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaborvida.com\/\">Gabor Vida<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/teknision.blogspot.com\/\">Tony MacDonell<\/a> in an empty conference room at the Ottawa Sheraton. Teknision works primarily in Flash-based technologies &#8212; Flash, Flex, and AIR &#8212; and serves as a good example of the &#8220;designer\/developer&#8221; role that I&#8217;ve seen emerge over the past year as Ajax and RIA have gone mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Gabor and Tony explain what it means when they say they created &#8220;branded applications,&#8221; a concept that Teknision is well known for and and successful with. We then get into one of my favorite topics for small shops: how do you manage the ongoing relationship with clients, esp. pushy ones. On this topic, we talk about what I&#8217;d call &#8220;agile design,&#8221; or the way that agile software development ideas and practices can be applied to the design\/developer process.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teknision.com\/\">their blog<\/a> for more write-ups of the Teknision philosophy and practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Ottawa this week, I had the chance to chat with Teknision&#8216;s Gabor Vida and Tony MacDonell in an empty conference room at the Ottawa Sheraton. Teknision works primarily in Flash-based technologies &#8212; Flash, Flex, and AIR &#8212; and serves as a good example of the &#8220;designer\/developer&#8221; role that I&#8217;ve seen emerge over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-interviews","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}