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About us
We make interfaces. We're the team behind interfaces that billions of people click, tap, pinch, and zoom every day. You may not have known it at the time, but you’ve probably used something that we designed. Since 2006, we’ve helped some of the world’s coolest companies build products and services that are attractive, thoughtful, and enjoyable to use. Slack, Coinbase, TED, Apple, Disney, and Google, to name a few. Are you working on something great? We'd love to help make it happen. Want to help us build exceptional products? We're hiring! metalab.co/careers
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https://metalab.com/
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- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Victoria, BC
- Type
- Privately Held
- Specialties
- Interface Design, iOS Design, Web Development, Strategy Consulting, Product Design, UX Research, Mobile Development, App Design, App Development, UX Design, UI Design, Brand, UX Testing, Design Systems, Full Stack Engineering, Frontend Development, Backend Development, Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Vision, User Engagement, User Retention, Engineering, and Design
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101-524 Yates St
Victoria, BC V8W1K8, CA
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303 W Pender St
Vancouver , BC V6B 1T3, CA
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James Clear came to us to transform his Atomic Habits philosophy into a product that supports lasting positive change. Atoms. is a powerful habit-forming app designed to mold into daily life and help users become the person they want to be. Learn more about the method behind the mechanics of the 4.8-star app → https://lnkd.in/gPBenW5U
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Welcome to the app store Suno 🎉 🔥 This one hit home for a lot of the music lovers and creators here at Metalab. Since their first launch late last year, Suno's been leading the charge in the text to music space, which has been equal parts a beautiful expression of creativity and a hotly contested use of AI. The debate should and will no doubt continue, but for now, we're excited to ship a new brand and mobile app to help the 12 million+ users making music everywhere they go. More to come on our recent work in gen AI, so stay tuned. #brand #design #engineering #showreel #genai #music
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It’s a good day to download Suno on IOS. We had an incredible time working on this project with their team. Congrats!
Suno is now on iOS! Download today on the Apple App Store: suno.com/ios Make any song you can imagine, anytime & anywhere, and share with your friends - all from your phone The Suno app is currently only available in the US, but stay tuned for Android, a global rollout, and a lot of fun updates soon. We can’t wait to listen to the music you’ll create!
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Say goodbye to bad habits. We partnered with NYT bestselling author James Clear to create Atoms — the official Atomic Habits app. The same philosophy, but translated into an actionable habit-forming app. Check out the full case study → https://lnkd.in/gPBenW5U
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We didn’t want our social media warning label for Fast Company’s call to tackle the surgeon general’s recent recommendation to be just another prompt that gets ignored. To fight the battle of the mindless scroll, we used visual badges. Aesthetically, the badges resemble glass, pointing to both the fragility and value of the platform. Functionally, they capture attention and direct focus to the short and sweet messaging, supporting the shift of unhealthy behaviour and changing mindsets. Check out the full article: https://lnkd.in/gV6J9wJA
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The good folks at Fast Company asked us for our take on the surgeon general’s latest recommendation that social media should come with a warning label for teenagers. Doomscrolling is the norm, so we took a native approach with our label to have a more lasting and meaningful impact. To do this, we identified key moments in the app experience that often affect mental health. → Seeing someone’s edited or unrealistic photos. → Getting unfollowed. → Scrolling for hours in a blink. → The comment section… Then, we prompted a moment of reflection to encourage a mindset shift. Read the full breakdown on our design: https://lnkd.in/gV6J9wJA
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Our take on design intervention. Thank you Fast Company for including us in this run to generate ideas for the surgeon general’s latest recommendation. Mindless scrolling is the norm, so we didn’t want the label to fall victim of it. Instead, we took a native approach, finding key moments in the experience to prompt a mindset shift. Read more about our design and its goal of supporting the mental health crisis among youth: https://lnkd.in/gV6J9wJA
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A huge win for the Pok Pok team. We can’t wait to see what comes next. Congrats!
Cat’s out of the bag! We are so excited to announce the closing of our $6M Series A led by Adjacent, with participation from Konvoy, Metalab, Michelle Kennedy and more! 🥳 This fundraise will enable us to continue pushing the boundaries of digital play and learning, and bring healthier screen time to even more families around the world—including those on Android! 😉 Thank you to Sarah Perez at TechCrunch for breaking the news. Get the full scoop here. https://bit.ly/3VmgrIw
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💜 This is how we build community. Thank you for sharing Caitlin.
Four years ago this week a Metalab Portfolio Review Night helped me strike a match I hoped would light, breaking me into product design from engineering. A month before I had cold outreached Grace Yang to learn about UX research. She generously got on the phone with me and later invited me to the review night her company was hosting that week. The photo is from that night (I couldn’t yet afford an office chair), where I met Lee Giles (and the incredible Sara Vienna and Denise Salvador). I remember writing down “top of the funnel” because I had no idea what it meant. My partner Tony Nielsen snuck a photo because he was proud. Lee Giles agreed to continue to meet with me, becoming a powerful mentor and a dear friend. I improved my portfolio and soon landed my first role as a founding product designer when Shireen Jaffer took a chance on me. I hustled until I felt equipped to contribute and learn within a design team, which is when Scott Baggett hired me to work with Nick Boes, a bad ass designer who helped me grow visually and strategically. I took a break and freelanced before finding my way to Partner where Jesse Campbell Mark Nichols and Stéphane Fournier helped shape me into a more confident and precise designer. Back freelancing again for the time being, I'm taking on a more challenging product, and asked the wonderfully thoughtful and kind James Hobbs if he could recommend a designer to help me hone my visual skills, which led me to Morgan Jones. I’m reflecting this week how many dominos had to fall for me to land here and how many continue to go out of their way for me. I’m so proud I’ve said yes to every call, meeting, and project that absolutely terrified me (because all of the above did). I look forward to a long career of paying the generosity forward and continuing to learn from incredible designers and leaders.
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