Category Archives: Team Work

Musical ensembles as a model for leadership and teamwork

Thursday, April 2, 2009 – 9:54 AM

A couple of months ago I went to see Broken Social Scene, a great Montreal-based band, at the Orpheum in Vancouver. After the show, I had a few “aha” moments while slightly tipsy from a bourbon & ginger, and had an enthusiastic discussion with my husband about how the band’s front man, Kevin Drew, was [...]

By Mallory | Also posted in Blogs by Author, Vancouver | Comments (0)

Engineering blog is launched!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 – 8:48 AM

It’s finally ready, and I know you all have been waiting for it…the Habañero engineering blog is live! I know there are many technical people out there who are interested in the inner-workings of the developers on our team and this will be a great resource.
The team has some awesome plans for this blog with [...]

By Jasvir | Also posted in Blogging | Comments (0)

Co-op 101

Monday, February 23, 2009 – 3:53 PM

We are putting out the call once again for interaction design students to add to our team. We are looking for 4 month internships – so if you’re interested, stop reading right now, and email me!
If you’re still reading this, I thought I would offer a few words of wisdom that I picked up during [...]

By Jasvir | Also posted in Vancouver | Comments (2)

Tools, tools, and more tools

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 – 4:02 PM

Lately we have tried different tools at Habañero during our design process because we’re always on the lookout for ways to improve how we do things. We looked at some usability testing, video capture, and design deliverable applications, among others. I thought it was about time to share some of the tools we have tried or want [...]

By Jasvir | Also posted in Usability Testing, tools | Comments (1)

Working the process

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 – 4:49 PM

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 [...]

By Kathleen | Also posted in Design, Uncategorized, User Experience | Comments (1)