Studio design coordinator Celsa talks scrappiness, getting down and dirty with sandblasting, and socially informed design for the buildout of Hattery’s first floor workspace. See how she brought new life to an old space and made it a place to meet, think, and create.

Tina Dang, Hattery’s executive chef, talks about why food is an integral part of office culture and creativity. Read her anecdotes on all things food and kitchen, and try a delicious pasta with asparagus and preserved lemon.

What if managing your sales leads was as simple as managing your playlist? Consumers have come to expect and demand elegantly designed interfaces. But what about products for the enterprise market? We examine the habits of highly successful enterprise products — and where they go wrong.

Cristobal Chao, our engineering intern, discovers that sometimes you need to create a new tool for the job at hand. Read his post about how user experience design informed the engineering process for a brand new plugin, and check out the code to use for your own project.

A year ago, we formed Hattery because we wanted to change the way businesses are built. Like most entrepreneurs, the three of us created our business because we had a strong belief that there was a market opportunity that we could — and should — harness. Read more…

Local San Francisco type designer James T. Edmonson has loved drawing letters ever since he was a little kid, but he doesn’t just draw them—he creates unique and innovative digital products that stretch the bounds of typography. Watch how he created a seamless script font for Hattery with a sharpened pencil, graph paper, and a macbook pro.

Anyone who lives in this city can tell you about the quirks of the transit they regularly use: when to avoid which highway; which is the flattest bike route from the Haight to Market St; whether the express bus from the Sunset to Downtown stops by their house. And any one of them can most likely tell you the areas they’d like to see improved. The people who attended reroute/sf and used their skills to help fix the problems they saw in the city weren’t just hackers — they were citizens, working in collaboration with the city to carry out their civic duty.

Tech jobs aren’t confined to the coasts. They’re an economic force in a country that is still in recovery from the largest recession since the Great Depression. Clare Bayley and the Hattery team used Google Fusion Tables, SQL, and jQuery to turn more than one million data points into a coherent and compelling story about technology job hubs across the United States.