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There’s now a handy API for getting company logos into your app

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by on July 1, 2015 at 9:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Clearbit, a provider of business intelligence APIs, has launched a service for getting company logos into your app. The API is free and grabs company logos from a number of sources including Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook or directly via their meta links. It’s pretty easy to get user avatars into your app using Gravatar, but Clearbit saw a need for a similar service to exist for company logos. To get the logo for any company you only need to make a single API call and it’s returned as a link to a resized version hosted on Clearbit’s content delivery network. ➤ Company Logo API [Clearbit]…

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7 tips to create awesome mobile app designs

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by on July 1, 2015 at 8:59 am
Posted In: app, Around the Web, design, Design & Dev, Mobile

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Native app UI design doesn’t give you much room to work with. When designing for smaller screens and shorter attention spans, your UI design must work at the speed of thought. Ideally, you want to design an interface that’s easy enough for novice users, without boring experienced users. In this post you’ll learn proven ways to get it right. Photo Credit: Omar Jordan Fawahl, Creative Commons 2.0 If you’d like to dive even deeper into mobile UI design, check out the free e-books Mobile UI Patterns  and Interaction Design Best Practices. The Rules of Interaction Design Always Apply Just because…

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SwiftKey adds adaptive layouts for Bengali, Kannada and 7 more Indian languages on Android

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by on July 1, 2015 at 8:49 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Keyboard, Swiftkey

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SwiftKey has added adaptive layouts for nine Indian languages to its predictive keyboard app for Android. The latest update makes it easier for speakers of Bengali, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Assamese, Oriya, Konkani and Manipuri to type in their native languages. SwiftKey’s adaptive layouts for Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam In addition to support for the new languages, the update also brings emoji prediction for Bengali, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Assamese, Oriya, Sinhala and Urdu. The company recently added adaptive layouts for Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati and Marathi, as well as a new interface and a slick new dark theme. ➤ SwiftKey [Android…

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Amazon finally begins selling physical products in Mexico

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by on July 1, 2015 at 7:08 am
Posted In: amazon, Around the Web, Insider, mexico

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Amazon has opened a Spanish-language online store for physical products in Mexico, two years after it began selling its Kindle ebooks in the country. The new store, which can be found at amazon.com.mx, has millions of products available in more categories than Amazon has featured at launch in any of its international markets. Shoppers will be able to peruse a wide range of offerings from Amazon and many local businesses, in categories like consumer electronics, video games, sports and outdoors, kitchen and home, health and personal care, music, movies, TV series and books. Orders above MXN 599 ($38) that are…

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