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Our designers are daily challenged by the different screen sizes of Apple’s devices: iPhone 3(G)(S), iPhone 4(S), iPhone 5(S coming this fall), iPad 1 / 2 / 3 / mini. It inspired Faraz to make this wall painting in our office. And it helps us remembering all screen sizes too…
Don’t push the buttons, Harry Hamster! is an exciting, good-humored, interactive picture book for iPhone and iPad with games and sound effects. Harry is going to the spaceport, with his dad. There is just one condition: he is not allowed to touch any buttons. That’s not easy for a hamster who loves buttons… The book was written by the Dutch children’s books author Corien Oranje (she wrote over 40 books) and illustrated by illustrator and cartoonist Willeke Brouwer. We designed and developed this book for iPhones and iPad.
At Grappetite we design and develop mobile apps (iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone). We are working with a small team of 10 talented designers, developers, project managers, and testers. We don’t care about office politics or function titles, but rather aim for excellent products and more than satisfied clients with a team that feels like a family.
We have recently been ranked as one of the top mobile application developers in Europe by Sourcing Line, an organization that does independent research on IT companies. Sourcing Line added us to their leaders' matrix, recognizing the quality of our work and communication.
Faraz, one of our designers, took an iPad with the home over the weekend and today we found this in the ‘Paper’ app…
Halaat-O-Meter is the crowd sourced platform we recently launched to enable residents to posts update on their neighbourhood during times of trouble. The initial response of, especially, the people of Karachi was overwhelming and today we found that Halaat-o-meter is even featured at Al Jazeera. Anyone can report the current situation in his neighborhood (we call this the ‘halaat’, in Pakistan) on a real time map.
We are currently working on the “Don’t push the buttons” app, a rich children’s picture book with lots of funny games. The book has been written by Corien Oranje and is illustrated by Willeke Brouwer. Yesterday the voice recordings for the app were done in Ton Kerkhof’s studio in English, Indonesian, Dutch and Frysk. Thanks Richard, Anna Margriet and Mila!
Our production office is based in Karachi (Pakistan), a great and vibrant city but not a typical place when it comes to safe traveling. As we, and our 20 million fellow citizens, often wonder if we can travel safely to certain areas of our city, we decided to build a halaat-o-meter. A platform for anyone to share the current safety situation in his neighborhood, using Google Maps, Facebook, and the user’s input.
We are very happy as a team, but we feel that we are missing the warmth, company and support of a talented UI designer/front-end developer and a driven Android app developer.
Last month we 4 new developers joined the Grappetite team. Sobia, Asna and Yumna will be developing iOS, Android apps and (mobile) websites while Haris will be leading the development team.