Creating and Sending Reusable Emails with React

A couple weeks ago, I was tasked with coding emails. Oh, great… emails. I didn’t want to spend the next couple weeks coding tables for hours every day. There had to be a better way.

Distro.Mic: An Open Source Service for Creating Instant Articles, Google AMP and Apple News Articles

A Crash Course in User Interview Technique

Accidents happen. Important people in product teams get the flu. Airplanes get delayed. Sometimes you just can’t make it to the user interview you had scheduled. User interviews are a vital part of understanding your users and gives you an outside…

Introducing DisOrDatBot

At Mic, we’re always working on new ways to tell stories and engage our readers. Over the past few months, messaging apps have become a much-discussed medium for business-to-consumer interaction. The business case for paying attention to these apps is that their user bases are large and…

Smack: Mic’s Slack Bot for Live SMS Coverage

A few weeks ago, the Mic Product team were testing the idea of sending our users a series of SMS messages as a part of a story. We wanted to see what kind of user engagement we would see and if users were even interested in having messages sent…

Introducing Mic for iPhone: Lock-screen storytelling with video

Shooting for the Moon!

Design Driven NYC Event presented by FirstMark Capital

If you don’t know what to name your module it’s probably too big