Articles we published about Touchgram, the stories behind the product, the technology and related issues such as data privacy.

2021

• Touchgram vs the iMessage Corner of Doom
  Thanks to a new tester, found a gotcha in our Sense Touch editor design that makes it look like Touchgram just crashed.
  

2020

• Apple Privacy - What iMessage Extensions know about you
  Explains how Apple safeguard your privacy by running iMessage extensions like Touchgram in a state of ignorance. We know nothing, not even your name.
  
• Touchgram Origins — Personal
  The family history and backstory inspiring Touchgram, including how my parents returned to England from Australia & made me aware of what it's like having young children with remote grandparents.
  
• Touchgram Origins — Technical
  The dual obsession with touch-driven interfaces and user-empowering tools such as Hypercard which inspire and set goals for Touchgram.
  
• Birthday Card via Canva + Touchgram 
  A walkthrough of starting with a Canva birthday card template, customising that card and making a two-page Touchgram. It shows that the way v1.0 handled background pictures did a lousy job with landscape content because all pictures were stretched, so that was fixed in v1.1.
  A walkthrough of starting with a Canva birthday card template, customising that card and making a two-page Touchgram. It shows that the way v1.0 handled background pictures did a lousy job with landscape content because all pictures were stretched, so that was fixed in v1.1.
• Redesigning Touchgram for Dark Mode
  A story for designers and developers about the challenges of how Dark Mode on phones requires you to rethink your app color scheme. It includes some technical discussions and a spreadsheet where the color values were worked out. Because most of your interaction within Touchgram is within the Messages app, we had to support dark mode for iOS 13.
  
• The Foot Mom
  The quirky true story behind the foot tickling example that's been part of Touchgram since the very beginning.
  
• Testing iOS 14
  A little piece confirming that all is well - the current v1.2.5 on the App Store works just fine on the iOS 14 beta.