Category Archives: Design

A website as an application

There’s been a lot of talk lately of extending websites out from the browser (Silverlight, Expression Blend, Adobe AIR) and recently I found about Mozilla Prism. Mozilla is now at the point where they are releasing a new prototype that splits a website out of Firefox and installs it as a separate application on the […]

Tired of your personalized Google home page?

There are a couple new and different themes for the Google home page. The Earth Light theme is very nice if you want to see if your friends around the world are in daylight or not, and the Simplicity is Complex is a cool and very different look from the other themes.
By the way, […]

New horizons

I’m excited to announce that I am co-teaching the Interface Design course at Langara College this semester. Part of the Electronic Media Design (EMDP) program, it’s a fast-track one-year program in all things electronical - music, video, websites, etc. I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time - having coffee […]

Travel safe

Just in time for your holiday trips, check out the newly designed travel insurance application at Pacific Blue Cross. We worked with their development team to design and integrate the new front end. Hats off to Hilla for IA, Kathleen for design and Mark for UE dev.

Pacific Blue Cross Travel Plans

A click-free, gestural website

I came across this site today while digging through some old email. Forgive me if you’ve already seen it, but I thought it was an interesting approach to replacing clicking behaviour with gestural behaviour. Much like the iPhone, it takes no time whatsoever to pick up how to navigate between sections and pages. 
http://dontclick.it/