Blend is now available for free download on the App Store!
Download Blend for iPad FREE at http://bit.ly/MHyJQp Please enjoy, share and comment below to let us know what you think! Please note it’s currently only available for iPad 3 and 4 (retina).
Author Archives: Elizabeth Maybury
The DIT Mobile Moguls App Showcase
Today Blend had its first official outing! The DIT Mobile Moguls App Showcase was run by the DIT Hothouse, EY Entrepreneur of the Year and Innovation Dublin. It featured several guest speakers including Frank O’Keefe of EY, Eamon Fallon of Daft.ie and theJournal.ie, Owen Harris of Bitsmith Games and Hugh McAtamney of DIT. In addition […]
The Videos
After filming our instructional videos, we still needed to edit them and put some text over them. We decided to split the workload in a way that would ensure continuity in the look and feel of the videos, with one person responsible for the same element throughout all three videos. So Eoin trawled through all […]
Would You Like to Download Blend?!
We’re releasing a new build of Blend tomorrow (Tues 2nd Dec) morning. If you’d like to try it out, please sign up on Testflight: http://tflig.ht/1bW8HDt At the moment the app works on iPad 3 and 4. If you’ve already signed up, no need to do anything now, you should receive an email from Testflight tomorrow to […]
Visit us at the Digital Media Showcase on Dec 11th
We’ll be showcasing Blend at the Digital Media Showcase on Wednesday, December 11th. In addition to the exhibition of apps from DIT, there’ll also be talks from a panel of digital media entrepreneurs with an audience Q&A afterwards. Admission is free! More info here and register for free tickets here.
www.blendtheapp.com is LIVE!
We’ve swapped over to a custom domain so you can reach this blog at http://www.blendtheapp.com and lots more will be added to the site in the coming weeks!
Sprint 3 – The Last One!
On Friday we had our third and final sprint presentation. We gave an overview of what we’ve done since the last sprint and actions taken regarding feedback received after the last sprint. We showed this video for anyone who couldn’t see the app on the iPad: If you were freaked out by my reflection in […]
Icon Update
Here’s how the icons look now. They’ve been reworked a good bit as we found in our testing that users were confusing them with buttons and trying to tap them in the menu. Some users also had issues telling what each one meant. Some casual testing of these has revealed that users are finding them […]
General Update with Current Photos and Visuals
These are screenshots from the actual app as it appears on the iPad, so this is how the main navigation looks now, with our new photographs in place. The icons have also been updated. There are a few minor issues to be fixed, such as formatting the text, which is difficult with Corona. But we’re […]
Photoshoot
This was a day we’d been looking forward to (and slightly nervous about)! We bought all our spices last week and picked up the fresh herbs on the morning of the shoot. We began at 9am as we had 16 blends to shoot, in addition to 40+ individual spices. That’s a lot of photographs! While […]
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