MetaLab, Ltd.
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| Industry | User Interface Design |
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder | Andrew Wilkinson |
| Headquarters | Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia |
Key people | Richard Ward (CEO) |
Number of employees | 130+ |
| Website | metalab |
MetaLab is a interface design firm headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia that provides product design, engineering, and research services. MetaLab has a distributed team working from over a dozen different countries and serving clients all around the world. Their clients include Slack, Google, Uber, Amazon, other Fortune 500 businesses and startups. MetaLab also founded Pixel Union, which is a now an independent company and theme supplier for platforms including Tumblr, Shopify, and WordPress.
The company, founded in 2006 by Andrew Wilkinson is now part of the Tiny group of companies which include Dribbble, Pixel Union, and Flow.
Products
MetaLab has created many of its own products over the years including:
- Ballpark is an online application to "send invoices, receive payments, bid on projects, and keep [your] team on the same page."[1]
- Flow is "an online collaboration platform that makes it easy for people to create, organize, discuss, and accomplish tasks with anyone, anytime, anywhere".[2] On 25 September 2013, MetaLab unveiled a major new redesign of its collaboration app, Flow.[3]
- Pixel Union is the result of a collaboration between MetaLab and 45royale that "create[d] a series of beautiful premium Tumblr themes that are not only unique, but also incredibly affordable".[4]
Mozilla
In March 2010, Andrew Wilkinson (MetaLab founder) wrote a blog post claiming that Mozilla "literally copied images straight off of our site" for use in the design of their FlightDeck editor.[5][6] The story, which was picked up by TechCrunch,[7] caused Mozilla to tell Wilkinson that "[the] design which used [MetaLab's] site’s design elements was a development build and according to [Mozilla] the design has been changed in newer builds." Wilkinson then requested a public apology.
References
- ^ "Get Ballpark". MetaLab, Ltd. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ "Flow: Task Management". MetaLab, Ltd. Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ "MetaLab Delivers A Huge Overhaul For Its Task management solution Flow App". CEOWORLD Magazine. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
- ^ "Premium Tumblr Themes | PixelUnion". MetaLaband 45royale. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ Andrew Wilkinson (2010-03-09). "MetaLab - MetaLab Goes Open Source?". Blog.metalabdesign.com. Retrieved 2012-08-12.
- ^ Keizer, Gregg (11 March 2010). "Design firm accuses Mozilla of UI plagiarism". Computerworld. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- ^ "MetaLab Accuses Mozilla Of Plagiarizing Its Design (Updated)". TechCrunch. 2010-03-09. Retrieved 2012-08-12.
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