Monthly Archives: October 2008

Working the process

A new quarter has started at Habañero, which means new rocks to help improve internal processes. A small group from the UE Team were tasked to develop a solution to help communicate the UE process to the rest of the organization. Through discussion and analysis, we have come up with a pretty nifty (and still [...]

The guy who invented this is a genius!

I found out about a neat feature in Photoshop CS4 yesterday – content aware editing. It’s pretty neat to see it in action (scroll halfway down the page to play the video).
This feature intelligently re-sizes, or re-targets, images by being aware of the content in the image (skin tones, objects, etc.). Using this tool, you [...]

IDEA Conference

I just returned from the 2008 IDEA conference, a yearly conference about “Information: Design, Experience and Access” sponsored by the Information Architecture Institute and thought I’d write a bit about some of the speakers I took in at the conference:
On Day 1, I took in the pre-conference workshop with Paul Gould and David Bishop from [...]

The Little Intranet That Could

After many months of concepting, designing, developing and iterating, we are proud to announce the launch of Canadian Pacific’s intranet. RailCity grew from the original CP intranet, RailTown. RailCity was originally just the name for the project, but it quickly grew on everyone and became the name of new intranet. This is a good example [...]

Mad Men & the Creative Process

I have to admit that I am starting to watch more TV now that the fall season has started. One of my favourite shows right now is Mad Men. If you haven’t see it, it’s a show that takes place in the early ’60s and follows characters who work in an ad agency in New York.
One [...]