Category Archives: Team Work

Re-focusing this blog

Friday, July 4, 2008 – 12:32 PM

As we wish our friends south of the border a happy July 4th (and a belated happy Canada Day to our northerly brethren), we thought we’d kick off the summer with a little insight into our attempt to re-focus the direction of the Habañero User Experience blog.
Of late, there have been murmurs and rumblings around the office about [...]

By Jasvir | Also posted in Blogging, User Experience | Comments (1)

Travel safe

Thursday, December 20, 2007 – 6:38 PM

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

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

Getting consensus on scope with a large stakeholder group

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 – 2:05 PM

I find that one of the most challenging parts of the consulting process involves getting a large group of decision makers to agree on project scope. Not only can the process be time consuming, but there are often politics at play behind the scene (or right in the scene, for that matter!) that can make [...]

By Mallory | Also posted in Blogs by Author, Information Architecture, Intranet | Comments (0)

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 Design, 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 Design | Comments (7)