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Helping Charlie Bird and others with MND speak with their own voice
Marino Software

Helping Charlie Bird and others with MND speak with their own voice

Over the past few years, we have been spending some time leveraging technology to help people with Motor Neurone Disease to communicate in their own voice. In 2019 we began working with the Big Life Fix team to create a communication app for Roisin that aimed to enable her to communicate with a digital version of her own voice. We are now working with Irish broadcasting veteran, Charlie Bird, to keep his trademark voice. Our aim is to make this technology accessible to as many people as possible.

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Marino’s 2021 Gift to You: Giving COVID the Jab this Christmas
Marino Software

Marino’s 2021 Gift to You: Giving COVID the Jab this Christmas

This year we want to keep taking care of ourselves and others - that's why our Christmas gift will be to help vaccination in countries where it is needed.

We’re Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award Winners 2021
Marino Software

We’re Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award Winners 2021

Marino Software are thrilled to be among the winners in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2021.

How to Port your iOS app to Android
Aaron Smith

How to Port your iOS app to Android

A guide for app producers (updated May 2021)

How Lord of The Rings, Ducks, and Customer Experience kept us sane in 2020
Marino Software

How Lord of The Rings, Ducks, and Customer Experience kept us sane in 2020

It’s been an unpredictable year for all of us at Marino. Yet while we’ve adapted to a new lifestyle and a different way of working, we’ve also strived to keep each other close. We’ve managed to keep our heads up and achieve great things throughout 2020. And today, we see ourselves as a team who can tackle anything.

Let's help others together this Christmas
Marino Software

Let's help others together this Christmas

As a gift to our clients, this Christmas we made charity donations in their names, here's the results!

How to Accelerate Remote Collaboration
Patricia Herrero

How to Accelerate Remote Collaboration

Working from home has become the new normal. Your team is now online and trying to adapt to this new reality. But how can we effectively collaborate, creatively solve problems and create together remotely?

Remote User Research & Testing: How to “Get out of the Building” When You’re on Lockdown
Garrett Sheridan

Remote User Research & Testing: How to “Get out of the Building” When You’re on Lockdown

Entrepreneur, Steve Blank said that to understand your customers you need to “get out of the building” and speak to them face to face. But how do you do this while on lockdown?

Global Accessibility Awareness Day Webinar
Marino Software

Global Accessibility Awareness Day Webinar

To celebrate the 9th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 21st, between 14:00 - 15:00 GMT, we will host a free webinar. We would love you to join us.

2020 #Marinophotochallenge
Marino Software

2020 #Marinophotochallenge

We’ve created a new and fun photo challenge for you all!

Big Life Fix: Róisín’s Voice
Garrett Sheridan

Big Life Fix: Róisín’s Voice

RTE 1’s Big Life Fix focuses on helping people struggling with everyday tasks due to ill health or disability. They pair people who need help up with engineers, inventors, designers to create innovative ways to enhance their quality of life.

Accessible by Design
Garrett Sheridan

Accessible by Design

Accessible design is not only a matter of civic-mindedness. It is becoming risky not to take users of all abilities into account. Garrett outlines some simple things we can do to help our apps and website be more accessible to all.

Design Thinking for your New Year Resolutions
Marino Software

Design Thinking for your New Year Resolutions

Design Thinking is a key element at Marino's Design Workshops, where we empower businesses to develop successful products and services. To show you how effective this approach can be, we decided to apply it to a real-life problem: Setting - and sticking - to New Year Resolutions.

Welcome to the Museum of the Future
Patricia Herrero

Welcome to the Museum of the Future

How to use Future Casting to design for a world to come

WWDC 2019: Marino's Takeaways
Michael Behan

WWDC 2019: Marino's Takeaways

Apple held its annual developer conference, WWDC, in San Jose from June 3rd to 7th. We didn't win the ticket lottery this year but that hasn't stopped us getting stuck in to all the new developments. There was too much announced to mention everything in one article so here are my biggest takeaways from this year's event.

5 Google I/O Announcements Android Developers Will Love.
Derek Foley

5 Google I/O Announcements Android Developers Will Love.

We recently attended the Google I/O event this past month in San Jose, California. In among the cool product and feature announcements were in-depth talks on Google products. As Android developers we were keen to find out what’s new and what’s coming soon from Google for Android developers and designers. Here are 5 new tools and announcements that we are really excited about!

Celebrating International Women's Day. Let’s hack the gender gap together!
Mónica González

Celebrating International Women's Day. Let’s hack the gender gap together!

At Marino, we think it's important to challenge gender stereotypes and encourage positive female role models.

Productivity and Lifestyle: Minimalism, Github, Rails 6 Beta Release and Quicktype
James O'Reilly

Productivity and Lifestyle: Minimalism, Github, Rails 6 Beta Release and Quicktype

Pull up a chair, as James talks about his favourite productivity and lifestyle finds.

How to Improve Customer Experience and App Store Comments
Ciara Fenton

How to Improve Customer Experience and App Store Comments

One way to gain feedback from your users is as to ask for it through app notifications. We look at some issues to consider when designing and developing review notifications for your iOS or Android app.

Marino’s 2018 Highlights
Ciara Fenton

Marino’s 2018 Highlights

The end of the year always brings a time for reflection and here at Marino we’re no different. 2018 brought new faces, new clients, new rewards, lots of great times and ends with a sense of excitement as to what 2019 might bring. Here are some of our highlights.

Helpful testing articles and tips for testing and device usage
Michael Dixon

Helpful testing articles and tips for testing and device usage

This month, Michael Dixon, Lead QA Engineer, shares some of his favourite finds from the past few weeks.

More than a feeling: How to improve your customers’ experience by measuring happiness
Garrett Sheridan

More than a feeling: How to improve your customers’ experience by measuring happiness

Measuring the "fuzzy" subjective aspects of a user's experience is not easy but it may be key to the success of the product. Here are some strategies for making the most of customer feedback.

How to make your own iOS swipe onboarding animation
Tim Colla

How to make your own iOS swipe onboarding animation

Sometimes you have to make your own animations. We’ll take you through how to create a custom animation to help users in the onboarding process.

We’re Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award Winners
Marino Software

We’re Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award Winners

Marino Software are thrilled to be among the winners in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2018.

Mónica's Favourite Finds on Marketing video and trends, SEO, Design, Voice Search and engaging with your audience
Mónica González

Mónica's Favourite Finds on Marketing video and trends, SEO, Design, Voice Search and engaging with your audience

This month, Mónica González, Marketing Executive, shares some of her favourite finds on UX, Marketing and SEO from the past few weeks.

What Are Beacons and How do they Work? All You Need to Know
Niall Dowd

What Are Beacons and How do they Work? All You Need to Know

What are beacons and how do they work? What can they be used for and who is using them? Read on to learn more and find out what you need to be mindful of if you’re interested in using beacons yourself.

Niek's Favourite Finds: Exploring Android P and More Animations with Less Code
Niek Akerboom

Niek's Favourite Finds: Exploring Android P and More Animations with Less Code

This month, Niek Akerboom, Senior Software Developer, shares some of his favourite finds from the past few weeks.

We are looking for an Android Senior Software Developer
Marino Software

We are looking for an Android Senior Software Developer

Android developers, we'd love to meet you. Reach out if you're ready to be part of the team and build apps for some amazing brands with a lot of nice people.

Inspiring the Future through User Research
Patricia Herrero

Inspiring the Future through User Research

Uncovering real world design opportunities to better serve people in the future

Jessica's Favourite finds: iOS helpful articles and Politics of Code Reading List
Jessica Conway

Jessica's Favourite finds: iOS helpful articles and Politics of Code Reading List

This month, Jessica Conway, Senior Software Developer, shares some of her favourite finds from the past few weeks.

We are finalists for the Irish Content Marketing Awards 2018
Patricia Herrero

We are finalists for the Irish Content Marketing Awards 2018

We've been nominated for Best Content Marketing Award — Specialist for our innovative insights blog and Most Effective Use of Illustration for our Christmas Campaign.

Spatial Audio - Creating immersive soundscapes for your mobile app
Jessica Conway

Spatial Audio - Creating immersive soundscapes for your mobile app

How to use spatial audio in your app to create engaging sound that tells a user about their environment

Swift Island 2018
Tim Colla

Swift Island 2018

On July 4 - 5 2018 the first edition of Swift Island took place in Texel, The Netherlands. Marino Software were so nice to send me back home to attend this conference.

Garrett’s Favourite Finds on Design, Wearables and Screen Time
Garrett Sheridan

Garrett’s Favourite Finds on Design, Wearables and Screen Time

This month, Garrett Sheridan, Principal UX & Product Designer, shares some of his favourite finds from the past few weeks.

Marino Hackathon 2018: A Time Tracking System
Marino Software

Marino Hackathon 2018: A Time Tracking System

For our first Marino Hackathon we created a physical device to speak to our time tracking system. It was a worthwhile challenge to go from idea to a working prototype in 26 hours!

First Ruby TRICK Winner - Best Pangram
Ian Grant

First Ruby TRICK Winner - Best Pangram

Our Ruby team attended Paris.rb Conf in Paris this July. Here's a breakdown of the winner of Ruby TRICK 2013.

App Release Cycles — Why Faster is Better
Aaron Smith

App Release Cycles — Why Faster is Better

A Google I/O ’18 talks that really struck a chord with us was on the topic of release management, and the benefits of a shorter release cycle.

Ian's Favourite Ruby on Rails App Development Finds
Ian Grant

Ian's Favourite Ruby on Rails App Development Finds

This month, Ian Grant, Software Developer, shares some of his Ruby on Rails app development finds from the past few weeks.

Insights from MoneyConf 2018, Ireland's fintech conference
Ciara Fenton

Insights from MoneyConf 2018, Ireland's fintech conference

MoneyConf made a welcome return to Dublin this week and we went along to hear the thoughts of some of the big names in the Fintech and Banking industries.

WWDC 2018 Updates
Michael Behan

WWDC 2018 Updates

We are very excited we are attending WWDC 2018 in San Jose this week. We will be keeping you posted on all things #WWDC18. Don't miss out!

Marino's WWDC 2018 Wishlist: Siri, Swift and much more!
Michael Behan

Marino's WWDC 2018 Wishlist: Siri, Swift and much more!

WWDC week is almost here and with the rumour mill unusually quiet we're getting excited for what might be unveiled. Here's what we're hoping for at Marino Software.

Conor's Android App Development Favourite Finds
Conor Garry

Conor's Android App Development Favourite Finds

This month, Conor Garry, Senior Software Developer, shares some of his favourite Android app development finds from the past few weeks.

Why you Should Stop Supporting Older OS Versions
Seamus Cantillon

Why you Should Stop Supporting Older OS Versions

You might be wondering how many previous versions of the OS should your software support? Supporting very old mobile app OS versions can be problematic and expensive. We will show you that less is definitely more.

How to Engage your Customers through Voice Assistants
Patricia Herrero

How to Engage your Customers through Voice Assistants

Reach your customers through a new conversational voice in Google Home and Amazon Echo's Alexa

On Chatbots, AI, Self Driving Cars and more
Dave McNamara

On Chatbots, AI, Self Driving Cars and more

This month, Dave McNamara, Senior QA Engineer shares some of his favourite finds from the past few weeks.

Highlights from the Dublin Tech Summit 2018
Marino Software

Highlights from the Dublin Tech Summit 2018

Dublin Tech Summit insights from panel discussions across a range of topics from fintech and AI to blockchain and branding.

Ciara's Favourite Finds: GDPR, Uncovering gender bias through AI and Blockchain
Ciara Fenton

Ciara's Favourite Finds: GDPR, Uncovering gender bias through AI and Blockchain

Welcome to the first edition of 'Favourite Finds'. This month Ciara Fenton, Senior Project Manager, picks out her top five articles from around the web over the last few weeks.

Design Challenge: Rapid Prototyping a functioning Augmented Reality App
Garrett Sheridan

Design Challenge: Rapid Prototyping a functioning Augmented Reality App

How to prototype an AR experience that works in the real world and solves a real problem.

How to Quickly Generate Ideas and Make Group Decisions
Garrett Sheridan

How to Quickly Generate Ideas and Make Group Decisions

Avoid lengthy debates with the “note and vote” technique: a brainstorming Design Sprint process technique to save you time.

iOS Product Development tips on Storyboards, Multiple Developers and Git
Michael Behan

iOS Product Development tips on Storyboards, Multiple Developers and Git

Practical tips on using storyboards in large iOS projects

How to Make the Most of Emerging Technology: from Weak Glue to Sticky Products
Garrett Sheridan

How to Make the Most of Emerging Technology: from Weak Glue to Sticky Products

Emerging technologies have given us a palette of new tools to work with, to make your customer’s experience with your brand more streamlined and satisfying. Find out about the potential impact on customer engagement and your bottom line.

Procs & Lambdas in Ruby
James O'Reilly

Procs & Lambdas in Ruby

Functional Programming: First-class functions with Ruby

Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2018
Marino Software

Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2018

Our team talks about top trends, technologies and processes we are looking forward to working on this year. It’s meant to be an exciting 2018 working on...

Designing a Facebook Messenger Customer Service Chatbot
Patricia Herrero

Designing a Facebook Messenger Customer Service Chatbot

Making self-care and phone upgrades easier for customers through a Design Sprint

How Chatbots are Revolutionising Customer Service
Patricia Herrero

How Chatbots are Revolutionising Customer Service

Boost your customer service experience, reduce costs and engage your customers using Artificial Intelligence and Chatbots

OK Google, what’s next?
Garrett Sheridan

OK Google, what’s next?

As part of the Google Developer Agency program we always have access to the latest tools and technologies to help us to deliver the highest quality apps and services to our clients. We were recently invited to visit Google’s King’s Cross, London office to take part in Google Agencies Day Europe.

Coming of Age: Why You Need to Build for Smartwatches
Marino Software

Coming of Age: Why You Need to Build for Smartwatches

Is it time for you to invest in a smartwatch app?

How to Test Creative Concepts Cost-effectively: a Wayfinding App Design Sprint
Patricia Herrero

How to Test Creative Concepts Cost-effectively: a Wayfinding App Design Sprint

Combining spatial sound, geolocation technology and beacons into a user-centered wayfinding app

Going to 'The Future'? Here are 5 speakers not to miss
Garrett Sheridan

Going to 'The Future'? Here are 5 speakers not to miss

Some of the Marino team will be attending ‘The Future’ in the RDS, Dublin on the 3rd and 4th of November. Here are 5 speakers not to miss.

How to Prevent Fraud Without Compromising User Privacy
Tim Colla

How to Prevent Fraud Without Compromising User Privacy

Getting started with DeviceCheck on iOS 11

Simple Security Practices to Protect your App from the KRACK Exploit
Keith Davey

Simple Security Practices to Protect your App from the KRACK Exploit

Over the past few days news of the KRACK WiFi exploit has filtered out into mainstream media, and as a result it is now widely known that WiFi networks can be compromised using this exploit.

iOS 11 is Here
Michael Behan

iOS 11 is Here

The best time to start preparing for iOS 11 was at WWDC back in June when Apple announced it, the second best time is right now.

Want to de-risk your software project in 5 days?
Garrett Sheridan

Want to de-risk your software project in 5 days?

The benefits of Design Sprints and testing assumptions early

iPhone: 10 years on
Keith Davey

iPhone: 10 years on

A recap on how the first iPhones's product launch changed everything about developing software and certainly changed Marino Software.

WWDC17 -  A Retrospective
Marino Software

WWDC17 -  A Retrospective

Two of our developers, Tim and Niall attended this year’s WWDC, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Find out about their WWDC experience and what is new in iOS 11 and Xcode.

Google I/O 17  -  What you might have missed
Aaron Smith

Google I/O 17  -  What you might have missed

Android developers, we tell you the latest announcements from this year’s Google I/O - don't miss out!

iOS vs Android Native Features
Marino Software

iOS vs Android Native Features

Keeping abreast of iOS Human Interface Guidelines and Android Material Design guidelines: a handy comparison list for mobile UX product designers

How to Estimate App Design and Development Projects
Ciara Fenton

How to Estimate App Design and Development Projects

Moving from waterfall to agile and being open to uncertainty and change

Blockchain Hackathon: A weekend in the life of a Developer
Marino Software

Blockchain Hackathon: A weekend in the life of a Developer

Two of Marino Software’s engineers, Tim Colla and Seamus Cantillon, went along to take part and as part of the Orion team, came 2nd out of the 15 teams competing.

Blockchain and Identity: Revolutionising KYC for Financial Institutions
Seamus Cantillon

Blockchain and Identity: Revolutionising KYC for Financial Institutions

We tell you all about our insights from MoneyConf in Madrid, a general fintech event with a focus on Blockchain, Bitcoins and Biometrics.

How to Distribute iOS Apps for Beta Testing and Release
Marino Software

How to Distribute iOS Apps for Beta Testing and Release

A guide for iOS app producers (and their clients)

Draw with Curious George Update Released
Marino Software

Draw with Curious George Update Released

Drawing with Curious George just got a whole lot more fun!

RTÉ's junior broadcast app now live!
Marino Software

RTÉ's junior broadcast app now live!

Want to access free preschool TV, radio and games from anywhere? Check out the new broadcast & activity app designed & engineered by Marino for RTÉjr,

Elmo Loves ABCs wins a Common Sense Media ON for Learning Award!
Marino Software

Elmo Loves ABCs wins a Common Sense Media ON for Learning Award!

More than two years after the first release, Elmo Loves ABCs was one of fifty children’s apps, games & websites last night awarded a Common Sense Media ON for Learning Award.

Elmo Loves ABCs in top 100 paid iPad apps of 2012
Marino Software

Elmo Loves ABCs in top 100 paid iPad apps of 2012

Elmo Loves ABCs, the red and furry iPad app released back in early 2011 has proven to be a keeper,

Curious George at the Zoo inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame!
Marino Software

Curious George at the Zoo inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame!

Marino are delighted to see our favorite little monkey has been inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.

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