You can thank the region's passion for design, combined with an extremely helpful wrinkle in the Norwegian tax code.

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The ability to work in the kind of visual environment that designers are used to, generate working comps for clients and export code for developers will both speed up design development, but also avoid the unintended awkwardness that can result from programmatic design decisions made without sufficient visual feedback.

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The ability to quickly export CSS code for text and objects, and import color swatches to easily design incredible websites.

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Being able to code, or design, or sell or run marketing campaigns or do one of the critical things for your concept, all by yourself makes a big difference.

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The company provides engineering services to offload the complexity of maintaining multiple code bases which has proven to be a common issue for smartphone manufacturers, freeing the manufacturer to focus on hardware design and integration.

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Advances in the life sciences means it is now possible to design DNA on a computer screen and send the DNA code to a "bio printer" for assembly.

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Hence, cross-platform design tools that incorporate support for both HTML-5 as well as the ability to code some features in the native language have risen to fill this void.

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