It\u2019s difficult for me to look back at 2015 without the use of the calendar app, Foursquare and neatly \u0001sorted photo library. Nevertheless, here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/p>\n
Our company has seen growth again this year as we\u2019ve been hired by new international clients to solve their (user experience) challenges. Since we are almost exclusively hired through word of mouth, I guess our key to success is doing high quality work and doing it fast and on time.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve worked with some of the most amazing clients in Canada, Croatia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. It might sound frightening, but our 2015 clients collectively employ close to 100.000 people.<\/p>\n
The nature of our services is such that we can\u2019t disclose much about our projects until they are fully released. However, the Benton Modern project<\/a> was a great success for the client and for us, and it resulted in a few speaking engagements and a case study article<\/a> for Smashing Magazine.<\/p>\n We finally gathered a passionate and close-knit team that I\u2019m extremely proud of. Apart from yours truly, other members are Irena Dugonji\u0107<\/a>, my wonderful wife and a business partner, Mario Lon\u010dari\u0107, our first hire and Rade Bruji\u0107<\/a>, our UK partner. We\u2019ve known each other since 2004, but this year we finally formalized everything and created some big plans for 2016 and beyond, in large thanks to our unofficial, but extremely helpful advisory board including Ivan Podnar<\/a>, Kristina Podnar<\/a>, Tin Kadoi\u0107<\/a> and Vitaly Friedman<\/a>.<\/p>\n The web industry is so much different from anything else out there. Time and time again I witness how sharing our experiences and giving back actually makes our work collectively better.<\/p>\n But what I like even more is spreading our culture to other industries. That\u2019s why presenting at the Typographics<\/a> conference at Cooper Union in NYC that attracted graphic and type designers was such an enlightening experience.<\/p>\n The highlight of the year was the Ampersand conference<\/a> where I had an honor to wrap up the day following the amazing line-up of really smart and inspiring presenters. Huge, massive thanks to Richard Rutter<\/a> for the opportunity!<\/p>\n Speaking of which, the conference organizers are some of the loveliest people out there who are not recognized enough for their sleepless nights and hard work behind the scenes. Thank you Lydia Giner<\/a> (Awwwards Barcelona); Cat Hunter<\/a>, Mariona Aloy Ciller and Markus Seyfferth<\/a> (Smashing Oxford, Freiburg and Barcelona); Cara Di Edwardo<\/a>, Roger Black<\/a> and Sasha Tochilovsky<\/a> (Typographics NYC); Karmen Marohni\u0107 and Tin Kadoi\u0107<\/a> (Design First NYC); Emanuel Blagoni\u0107<\/a> and Lucijan Blagoni\u0107<\/a> (WordCamp Rijeka); Kate Bulpitt<\/a> (Ampersand Brighton); Christian Ziegler (DrupalCamp Vienna) and Vladimir Kon\u010dar<\/a> (IxDA Zagreb).<\/p>\n Apart from progressive disclosure, topics that often pop-up at cocktail parties are those about the activities outside of work. My wife and I try to raise three beautiful kids and that\u2019s a job in its own right. But even with all that I do find some time for personal development, so in 2015 I rediscovered two long-forgotten activities.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all folks. I hope yours was as exciting and I\u2019ll see you next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s difficult for me to look back at 2015 without the use of the calendar app, Foursquare and neatly \u0001sorted photo library. Nevertheless, here\u2019s what you need to know. Work Our company has seen growth again this year as we\u2019ve been hired by new international clients to solve their (user experience) challenges. Since we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Speaking<\/h2>\n
Life balance<\/h2>\n
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