Sorry to burst your bubble and scuttle your budgets of time and money. It’s true. I’ve seen it dozens of times: clients come to us saying something has to has to has to be shipped in 12 weeks. We tell them there is no way that can happen, no matter how much they pay us. They disagree and pay us what is required. They are subsequently unable - between their internal approvals, back-end engineering, design integration, product testing, deployment and many other factors- to get their product shipped anywhere near the deadline.

Beyond the Sisyphean nature of the frustration felt by everyone involved, our relationship with the customer is ostensibly strained in these situations. On one hand, we’ve worked hard and quickly and done everything we could in the contracted time frame; on the other, the design remains incomplete albeit for reasons beyond our control. Most customers are reasonable and accept that the delta is caused by their internal issues. Sometimes we try to give a little extra to help them get over the hump. Every rare occasion an unscrupulous client tries to take advantage of the situation and compel us to work for free because of their issues. Either way, nobody is happy. Our goal is always to lead or help our customers in shipping incredible software, and making a reasonable profit in the process. If we wanted to afford yachts and vacation houses, believe me we would not be in the services business to begin with!

It is generally accepted among the design intelligentsia that Apple is designing better software and hardware than pretty much everybody else in the core areas they choose to play. Yet there is one area where they have notably failed - if only by non-participation - yet stands as one of the most vital hardware solutions in the present and future: docking.

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SANTA CLARA, CA (U.S.) - September 10, 2009 - Involution Studios today announced the successful Beta release of the completely redesigned McAfee Total Protection suite. McAfee Inc, the world's largest dedicated security technology company, selected Involution Studios as their external partner on the project.

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ARLINGTON, MA (U.S.)—February 6, 2009— Involution Studios, a software design consultancy headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, announced they will host a free industry event in their Boston-area studio later this month. Titled “Sex, Money & Storytelling,” the event features the talent of industry luminaries Kevin Brooks and Whitney Quesenbery, who are writing a book on storytelling for user experience publishing house Rosenfeld Media. It is scheduled for Saturday February 28 from 10 to noon at Involution’s downtown Arlington studio location.

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ARLINGTON, MA (U.S.)—January 19, 2009— Involution Studios, a software design consultancy based in Sunnyvale, California, announced the opening of a second studio location in Arlington, Massachusetts - just north of downtown Boston - today.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (U.S.)—September 26, 2008—Raptr, a social platform for people who like to play and discover games, went into public Beta release earlier this month. Incorporating both a web and desktop client, Raptr is a next generation software product that synthesizes the richness and power of a thin client application with the elegance and desirability of a well-crafted social network. Involution Studios was the original design partner on the Raptr product through its alpha stage, helping from initial product conceptualization through Raptr staffing its own internal interface design team.

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SUNNYVALE, CA (U.S.)—June 5, 2008—Yahoo! Small Business yesterday received Editor’s Choice recognition from PC Magazine. A key part of their offering is the Site Solution product, for which Involution Studios was Yahoo!’s external design partner.

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SUNNYVALE, CA (U.S.)—January 8, 2008—The Involution Master Academy released their Winter 2008 Semester schedule today. Expanding to offer five total courses and featuring two new instructors, the upcoming semester builds off the very successful initial course offerings from last fall.