Category Archives: Design

The summer hiatus…it’s almost over!

This blog has been on a bit of a summer hiatus, but we are starting to trickle back (finally!) To ease back into things, here are some tidbits from this past summer:

Getting a sneak peak of SharePoint 2010 and preparing for THE SharePoint conference this year (drop me a line if you’re attending and we’ll [...]

Movie Review: Objectified

Last week a few us at Habanero went to see Objectified, which is a film about designing objects as well as the people and process behind them. The director, Gary Hustwit, was at the screening at the Rio Theatre to introduce the film and to answer questions after. I think it’s great to see the [...]

Exploring the Z-Axis

No, this isn’t a blog about physics, math and all that good stuff, but I want to take a moment and talk about the plane we normally don’t use in our day-to-work: the z-axis. Why? Well…as I’ve said before, I’m a dork and I love math! No really, stay with me here – this definitely [...]

CAPP Website: Part 1

It’s a new year…and a new launch
We started working with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) in late May and are delighted to announce the launch of their new website — http://www.capp.ca! This was an exciting project for us as we got to work with an enthusiastic client, the project included interesting subject matter [...]

Drawing parallels in the usability of everyday things

As I stuck my foot into the elevator at the Habañero offices — from the inside, of course — to hold it open for a colleague this morning, it struck me that a lot of the principles of user-centric design that we hold dear for interactive media and web development are not as readily applied to everyday [...]