Our Journal
A collection of our team’s best thoughts, stories and experiences.
Reimagining the Dashboard for a Fintech app
The era of finance tech apps is here to stay for our good. Be it for investments, great credit cards, or financial planning, these apps are here to help and simplify the lives of consumers and how they make financial decisions. We at Startaê worked on a redesign exercise experimenting a great interface and interactions for a finance app.
Read MoreWhat if you only had one day for a Design Sprint?
Recently we had the chance of experimenting a new idea here at Startaê. In order to provide assets for a sales presentation, our Biz Dev team came up with the idea of actually making a one day…
Read MoreHow we made our meetings more productive and fun with Cuckoo
Cuckoo is a productivity timer for distributed teams. Its mission is to help teams get more things done together in a friendly and collaborative environment.
Read More10 Plugins for Sketch selected by the Startaê team
The most useful plugins that’ll help your team be more productive and organized on Sketch.
Read MoreHow we helped one of the biggest wine ecommerces in Brazil to grow by making wine discovery easier
Evino is an innovative online wine business in Brazil. Their vision is to make people fall in love with wines through good deals and discovery. In the exclusive online store, they offer a premium wine selection at the best prices.
Read MoreHow can the team help its members to evolve with a 360° feedback system?
Communication is key for our team and we see feedback as an intrinsic part of it. In this post we share how we've created a simple and effective process where every member on our team can give and receive feedback from one another.
Read MoreThe reason why our distributed team meets face to face
One of the greatest challenges of keeping the culture in a remote team is, as we're far away from each other, to sustain the connection and the energy of the team. This is how we have been making it happen.
Read MoreThe Frontend stack of Startaê (Part 1)
Being a design studio, we couldn’t care more about the interfaces we develop. In this post, we share some parts of our frontend stack behind these interfaces.
Read MoreRethinking Vacations: Do we need to reach burnout to rest?
We believe that we should always question whether our practices and processes are working. Even the most fundamental and obvious ones. In fact, especially those. This series of posts will document all our internal experiments to evolve how we relate to work.
Read MoreLess offices, more possibilities, here’s to: Officeless
We’ve talked about thinking globally and how we believe that the greatest people and opportunities are spread around the world, not only in our city. However, we think that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Read More2016 was a great year! Here's why.
2016 was fantastic and it’s getting to an end. A lot happened. Most of the things were great, but we also faced some tough stuff. We wanted to share some of these milestones with you. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
Read MoreHealtholic
Although we love what we do and enjoy being with our co-workers, we think that taking care of family and health are crucial for a great life balance.
Read MoreMy first Hackathon with the Startaê Team
Since I started working at Startaê, I became excited about having hackathons with the team. Here I'll talk about my first design-sprint experience at Startaê, where we designed and developed Cuckoo from scratch.
Read MoreWhy motion design is important for a great user experience
Details are more important than we think. In general, most of the people just ignore the details when they are designing digital products. Have you thought why you love a particular product? I'd say the reason is in the details.
Read MoreOKR as a tool for empowerment
The structure behind our operation model is responsible for providing a significant impact that goes beyond business. It brings a humanized approach, it’s focused on individuals and team empowerment.
Read MoreWhat to expect when applying for a job at Startaê
At Startaê we want to find and hire the best people. That's why our hiring process is a little bit unconventional.
Read MoreOne Step Back: How We Rebranded
We have changed our logo recently and we already showed why we decided to do that. This post will talk about how we created, the successes and the pitfalls we had and everything we learned during the rebranding process.
Read MoreImprove your development workflow using HTML preprocessors
Being a developer means to work with tons of files every day. Have you ever asked yourself how to improve your workflow? Preprocessors can be the answer to that question. Ready?
Read MoreStaying up to date with Javascript Frameworks
One of the main challenges in the career of a Frontend developer is to stay up to date with the latest technologies out there. As new frameworks are constantly released how can we choose what is worth learning ? We came up with two rules to help you make this decision!
Read MoreOne More Step: The story behind Startaê’s rebranding
On April 10th, Startaê celebrated its 4th anniversary. During these four years, Startaê has changed, grown and established its culture, but the logo has remained the same. We believe our logo has to speak for us. It has to represent who we are and the things we believe in. Our old logo was not doing that anymore; it had to evolve as we did.
Read MoreThink Global
Where are your clients from? What's the location of people you work with? Are you limiting your relationships to the place you live in? For a company like ours who pushes the remote work philosophy, the location has never been a problem, but you need to make some decisions to make it happen. Here's what we did.
Read MoreModular and Object Oriented CSS with BEM
One of the hardest things to deal with in frontend development is when the project starts to become bigger, and the CSS organization begins to fall apart! How to handle with it? Is it possible to have my frontend code as modularized as the backend? Is it possible to code my CSS object oriented? BEM is a methodology that will help you break this paradigm. Enjoy!
Read MoreHow to keep your Mac development environment up-to-date
Hey developer, have you been in a situation where you try to run a local project and suddenly it stopped working? That might have happened because you let your development environment get rusted. I'll share with you simple things you can do not to let that happen.
Read MoreFrequency is the word
Frequency. The condition of occurring at frequent intervals. In other words, carve out time and do a little bit every day. This concept may seem simple but when applied it can be life changing.
Read MoreStop complaining and start doing something about it
How about trying to spend 24 hours without complaining. Not even a slight mumble. It is not that difficult!
Read MoreHow habits can shape or break your company culture
Every time I listen to or read about company culture it seems that it’s a hugely abstract concept and that it has nothing to do with the small things we do every day. And that bothers me a lot, it bothers me because they in fact are very connected. What we do every single day is what shapes our culture.
Read MoreWe need to talk about your job application
In case you missed it, we're hiring and we started getting emails from people who want to work with us.
Read MoreHello World!
This has been a year of big changes for us. One that you have probably already noticed is the complete redesign of our website. And of course, our blog couldn’t be left behind.
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