Material Instinct LLC, a New York company, was formed by Aaron Smulktis in 2017 after over a decade of experience in software design & development dating all the way back to our portfolio from 2008, working for some of the world’s biggest brands, working alongside many of the people still on the team today.
We are a small (partially distributed) but incredibly efficient group of innovative and passionate designers, developers, and technologists. We are all signers of the Programmer’s Oath (video explanation here) and whenever permitted we are strict followers of Agile precepts & methodology, the principles of a 12Factor app, and TDD (test-driven development) for unit testing as well as user testing.
We’ve built sites using technologies like ReactJS, NextJS, VueJS, D3.js, React Native, Python, Flask, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Swift, C++, and Processing, often powered by content coming from WordPress, Drupal, Indexhibit, Prismic, Contentful, or from databases like MySQL, Postgres, and MongoDB.
