Category Archives: Design

Oh la la - a new and cool sounding conference!

Thursday, August 30, 2007 – 10:23 AM

For those of us interested in user experience and interaction design (and furthering our skills in those areas) we’ve got a new conference to whet our appetites!
It is called Interaction 08, and is put on by the venerable IxDA. Happening in Savannah, Georgia from February 8 to 10, 2008, the conference has a pretty wicked [...]

By Joni | Also posted in Information Architecture, User Experience | Comments (0)

Design Dinner Take 1

Friday, May 18, 2007 – 1:45 PM

I met with a couple of designer friends last night at 6 Acres to break bread, talk shop, and get inspired. It’s a very informal event, and I hope to hold it regularly. Chris from Free Agency Creative and Kevin Broome both came out, and a lively conversation ensued.
To keep the conversation grounded in design, [...]

By Kathleen | Comments (3)

A New Director, User Experience for Habañero!

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 – 12:45 AM

For the last few years I have been doing two jobs at Habañero: leading the User Experience Group and also leading the User Experience Practice. I made a commitment to myself (and to Steven and Elliot) a year ago that I would figure out what I want to focus on and how I want to [...]

By Ben | Also posted in Team Work, User Experience | Comments (1)

Terasen Gas Goes Live!

Monday, March 5, 2007 – 2:03 PM

It has been an exciting couple of days here, as we just launched the new Terasen Gas website. As with most design projects, there were a lot of challenges: a complex information architecture (IA), detailed corporate graphic standards, and a large collaborative team (read: a large team to approve the design!)
Links, links everywhere

Check out the [...]

By Kathleen | Also posted in Team Work | Comments (7)

Kids Know Best!

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 – 7:31 PM

A few months ago I facilitated a design discovery workshop with one of the local school districts. A group of internal stakeholders responded to our initial design questionnaire, and from these responses I put together a digital scrapbook. The idea was to narrow down our options and come to a unified concept for our design [...]

By Tracey | Comments (0)