About us
At tap tap tap, we develop our creations by sticking with several important principles:
- Your tasks should be accomplished with just a few taps (hence the name “tap tap tap”)
- Everything should be simple and intuitive for you to use
- Everything should look amazing
- High quality software doesn’t have to cost you a lot
- Love what you do and it’ll show in the things you create
- And last, but not least… there should be some fun thrown into the mix
Principals
tap tap tap is headed-up by two-time Apple Design Award winner, John Casasanta. John’s a long-time Mac developer and the creator of MacHeist, the #1 Mac software promotion site. Although born a programmer, John’s well past his coding prime now and can’t be trusted around a compiler these days without the proper supervision.
Scott Meinzer, John’s MacHeist partner in crime, is our one-man web developing army. Scott worked his web magic to make this site that you’re looking at now actually happen. Beyond his web duties that he so often shirks, Scott’s been instrumental in UI and app design.
To round out the leadership team and complete the MacHeist directorate trifecta, we have Phill Ryu. Phill co-created the bestselling Classics and when he’s not cooking-up cool app ideas, he’s cooking-up ways to craftily get those apps into your hands.
Designers
Great design is a prerequisite of great products, not a feature. The top notch designers in our team makes sure every single pixel in our apps is perfectly placed…
Since John has worked together with lead designer Wolfgang Bartelme on several projects in the past, all with stellar results, he felt that Wolfgang would be the perfect person to turn our’s concepts into graphic reality. And he couldn’t be happier with the results. Our design sessions have become one of the most loved parts of doing our business. You can see more of Wolfgang’s work at Bartelme Design.
During the day, David Lanham works at the Iconfactory illustrating beautiful icons. At night, he transforms into the designer equivalent of Batman and makes sure our designs are, at minimum, badass, if not straight up awesome. (Along with sharpening his skills with personal art, which you can see on his site.) Unlike Batman however, David has superpowers in Photoshop and Illustrator, which we make sure he only uses for the powers of good.
Lisa Bettany
Lisa Bettany is our photography guru, in charge of making our best selling app, Camera+ take the most amazing photos. Lisa created all the scene modes and fxs in Camera+ and continues to produce the app's main photo components. When she's not busy working on Camera+, she can be found mastering her evil Russian accent as MacHeist's lead bond girl, Sophia.
Programmers
If you have great designs but don’t have talented people to code them up into actual apps, then you’re just sitting on a bunch of pretty pictures. That’s definitely not the case with us, as we’ve assembled one of the strongest programming teams around…
Kevin Packard is the head of Blackfrog Software. John met Kevin through a Mac software contract for IBM waaaaay back in 1999. You’d think that working at IBM would be all stodgy and boring, but it was actually at IBM’s T J Watson Research Center, where many really cool technologies were born. Kevin and John have remained in contact throughout the years, occasionally getting together for buffalo wings / beer / geek talk. So when John was looking for someone with great coding chops and a great UI sensibility, he knew that Kevin would be perfect for the role. Kevin’s the lead developer of our hit app, Convert and a few new things stewing in the cauldrons.
Oliver Cameron is the founder of Taptivate, an iPhone app studio based in England. They have developed some of the most popular apps on the App Store, including the TV-featured Postman and our very own number one hit Voices. He and Phill met years ago hanging around in the MacNN GUI customization forums where they argued with each other over nitpicky UI details. They’re still arguing to this day.
Karl von Randow is heading-up on our most ambitious project to date. Some of Karl’s more notable projects include Birdbrain and Mobile Fotos for iPhone and the popular Charles web debugging proxy app.
Mark Davis Mark hasn’t provided a pic/bio yet, so we’re temporarily using one of another “award winning” Mark Davis until he does.
John Eddie, aka iBloke has been dreaming of coding delicious apps ever since he was a kid, when he wrote a program for the Commodore 64 before he even had one. (The program ran perfectly once he was finally able to get his hands on a C64.) Now he’s continuing this lifelong passion and goal of creating sweet apps on the iPhone, but this time he actually has one. John runs Zicron Software
Devin Ross was introduced to the team through Oliver from their work on Attic. His first project for the team came by taking over the Digg application. He also gives back to the iPhone developer community with the rock solid Tapku Library. Don't be fooled though, he can get lost for days pixel-pushing in Photoshop.
Team Crossover
You’ve likely seen these faces before if you’ve been following our other endeavor. What do you think they could possibly be cooking up??
Karl Baron
Karl is our one-man web developing army. Wait… that’s supposed to be Scott. We’re not really sure what’s going on but somehow he’s able to take the most complex web projects we throw at him, delay working on them until the last minute, then miraculously complete them in time, somehow. While drunk. We believe it is because he is Swedish, but whatever the case, he is very good at what he does, eats “interesting” food, has been working with us in some capacity since 2006, and knows all of our passwords.
Alumni
Sophia Teutschler is the creator of the Mac iTunes controller, CoverSutra. She and John were the original founders of tap tap tap, but after the two got to the point where they had too many irreconcilable differences, they decided to split up and go their separate ways. Sophia’s now gone back to the simple software development life and creates Mac and iPhone apps under her Sophiestication brand.