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MetaLab is an interface design firm headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, that provides product design, engineering, and research services. Their clients include Slack, Google, Uber, and Amazon.
Industry | User Interface Design |
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Founded | 2006 |
Founder | Andrew Wilkinson |
Headquarters | Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia |
Key people | Luke Des Cotes (CEO) |
Number of employees | 150+ |
Website | metalab |
MetaLab was founded in 2006 by Andrew Wilkinson and is now part of a group of companies that includes Dribbble. MetaLab also founded Pixel Union, a theme supplier for platforms including Tumblr, Shopify, and WordPress.
Products
editMetaLab has the following products in its portfolio:
- Ballpark is an online application that allows invoices to be sent, payments received, and bidding on projects.[1]
- Flow is a task management platform to create, organize, discuss, and accomplish tasks.[2] In March 2011, MetaLab announced the launch of Flow for the web, iPhone, and iPad.[3][4] A redesign of Flow was released on 25 September 2013.[5]
- Pixel Union is a collaboration between MetaLab and 45royale that creates curated internet themes for webpages and platforms.[6]
Mozilla
editIn March 2010, Andrew Wilkinson (cofounder of MetaLab) wrote a blog post claiming that Mozilla "literally copied images straight off of our site" for use in the design of their FlightDeck editor.[7][8] The story, which was picked up by TechCrunch,[9] 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
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ Kincaid, Jason (2011-03-23). "MetaLab Launches Flow, A Beautiful Tool For Task Management". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ "Victoria's MetaLab launches Flow App for Task Management". BrainStation®. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ "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.