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A Look Inside The Astonishing Tribe's Headquarters!
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A Look Inside The Astonishing Tribe's Headquarters!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 2 Mar 2012 11:20 am
TAT = Teasers Are Torture. Well, actually TAT = The Astonishing Tribe, the amazing UI design company which Research In Motion acquired back in December 2010. Based out of Malmo, Sweden, the TAT aka RIM Sweden team has been teasing torturing us for over a year now with amazing app and UI demos, the power of which will be put into the hands of developers when TAT's Cascades UI framework is...
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TAT = Teasers Are Torture. RIM's Teasers Show Off Innovative Thinking on PlayBook, But When Will We See Product?

Posted by Chris Umiastowski on 29 Feb 2012 4:04 pm
[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] Yesterday in Barcelona, Simon Sage posted a video (watch it above) showing off a very slick demo of a multi-user application called Confetti. Involving local file sharing over PlayBook devices and a webcam-driven spatial referencing system that ties in with Cascades, it creates a social group sharing experience we've never seen before on any...
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Whipping up advanced and fun app user interfaces with the Cascades Cookbook!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 7 Feb 2012 10:16 am
[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] When Research In Motion purchased the Sweden-based company The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), it purchased more than a talented group of people obsessed about advancing user interface design. It also bought TAT's technology framework, called Cascades. TAT's philosophy is that Design Loves Technology, and the Cascades development framework makes it...
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A closer look at the development of Scrapbook for the BlackBerry PlayBook

Posted by Michelle Haag on 20 Jul 2011 6:02 pm
Our friends over at the BlackBerry Blog posted a guest piece today from Dan and Minna from the RIM TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) team in Sweden. This is the team that worked on the Scrapbook application for the BlackBerry PlayBook, and they give you a little peek into what all went into developing this cool little app. As with some of the other applications we saw back at Mobile World...
Scrapbook for BlackBerry PlayBook updated bringing new wallpapers, stickers, and Facebook sharing!
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Scrapbook for BlackBerry PlayBook updated bringing new wallpapers, stickers, and Facebook sharing!

Posted by Michelle Haag on 13 Jul 2011 2:52 pm
Back in May at the BlackBerry World Conference, Scrapbook was unveiled for the BlackBerry PlayBook. This app was developed by The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) and is a fun way to put your pictures together with clip art and colorful backgrounds for sharing. I like using this app, as does my daughter, but I always wished there were more backgrounds and clip art to choose from. Today that wish has...
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First Look: How the technology behind TATs apps will be implemented on the PlayBook & made accessible to 3rd party developers!

Posted by Kevin Michaluk on 4 May 2011 10:59 am
Sneak Peek at the BlackBerry PlayBook NDK that will allow developers to tap into powerful effects via TAT's engine [ youtube video link for mobile viewing ] During BlackBerry World 2011 we had the opportunity to sit down with Chris Smith, Sr. Director of the BlackBerry Development Platform, and Rasmus and Karl from the The Astonishing Tribe, to get a look at how RIM plans to utilize TAT...