rhyne kyle richter jeff lamarche marcus zarra key people kyle richter ceo jaimee newberry coo products software consultancy briefs changes slender number of employees 51 100 1 website martiancraft.com martiancraft is an american based software company . the company has launched mobile and mac apps such as briefs and touchpad . rob rhyne and jeff lamarche founded the company in 2009 . the company has acquired a number of app related companies including bitbq dragon forged software and zarra studios . 1 contents 1 history 2 briefs 3 publications 4 external links 5 references history edit martiancraft s briefs app was first discussed in 2010 following its development and submission to the apple app store . the app was quickly compared to other apps such as google voice that have had their app under review for a number of months by apple s review team . the app left martiancraft s app in limbo for the foreseeable future . 2 in 2013 martiancraft launched their briefs app . briefs was initially launched as an ios app in may 2013 and the tool was created for prototyping ios apps . macworld featured the app explaining that while the app wasn t for programming apps explaining that it was therefore not a direct competitor to apple s xcode . 3 at the time of release briefs was said to cost 199 and allowed the user to develop a working prototype of their app . gizmodo featured martiancraft writing on their blog about apple s design changes when they launched os x yosemite . the analysis predominantly covered the icon changes apple had made to their operating system . 4 in february 2014 it was stated on storify that the consultancy firm empirical development were to merge . 5 following the announcement one of the founders of empirical development featured in fast company discussing the legacy app updates for ios7 . 6 later that month martiancraft acquired bitbq who were in control of the touchpad and numpad apps . 7 touchpad was then redesigned for ios7 in 2014 . the redesign came on the popular app which was acquired by martiancraft years earlier . 8 later in 2014 martiancraft acquired the denver based software developer dragon forged software which was founded in 2004 . the software company had primarily focused on developing apple based software before their acquisition . 9 martiancraft therefore took over the control of slender resolve and trivium . 10 the final acquisition of 2014 came when zarra studios was acquired by martiancraft . 11 martiancraft was named to the inc. 5000 list as a fastest growing private company in 2015 12 and again in 2016 . 13 briefs edit following its release briefs was analysed by fast company . briefs was put on hold by martiancraft for nearly 3 years . after working on other projects the app was accepted by apple in 2013 . 14 while the project was delayed for a number of years the creator stated that the delay had made the app better . 15 it was stated that when briefs was designed it didn t want to affect the existing workflow it would rather add to it . 16 briefs would be able to sit alongside tools designers and developers already use . the app was said to have taken influences from final cut pro adobe photoshop and also adobe illustrator . 14 briefs had an overall positive reception when it was released . the app was rated by macworld 4 out of 5 in their official review . 17 publications edit many members of staff of martiancraft have written or been quoted in numerous publications . these have included jeff lamarche 18 alan bradburne 19 kyle richter 20 joe keeley dave wood matt henderson cory bohon marcus zarra 21 kirby turner michael hay and eric blair . the majority of their publication coverage has been as authors co authors or technical reviewers . external links edit martiancraft official website references edit a b martiancraft llc . crunchbase . rose michael august 27 2010 . app store approval limbo boxes in briefs . tuaw . moren dan may 1 2013 . hands on briefs is an ambitious tool for prototyping ios apps . macworld . keppol nick july 7 2014 . inspecting yosemite s icons . gizmodo . apple donates 100 million in products toward obama s education initiative and other news from feb. 4 . storify . february 4 2014 . truong alice september 17 2013 . ahead of ios 7 s release tomorrow apple offers legacy apps to support older devices . fast company . martiancraft acquires bitbq llc . martiancraft . may 22 2014 . white joe june 17 2014 . touchpad is back adds an ios 7 redesign new dark theme . appadvice . martiancraft acquires dragon forged software . martiancraft . october 15 2014 . dragon forged software announces slender 2.0 for mac os x . prmac . martiancraft acquires zarra studios software . veooz . october 2014 . martiancraft 2015 . inc5000 . 2015 . martiancraft 2016 . inc5000 . 2015 . a b five obstacles to simplicity in mac app design . fast company . panzarino matthew may 11 2013 . the rise of the app director . the next web . briefs in the app store . itunes . tabini marco may 28 2013 . review briefs makes ios app design easy and stress free . macworld . jeff lamarche books . amazon . practical rails social networking sites . good reads . kyle richter . amazon . marcus zarra books . amazon . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title martiancraft & oldid 744149735 categories software companies of the united states2009 establishments in the united statescompanies established in 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was 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