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Gigawatt - The Illuminated Mixtapes. I came across this website last week and I’ve been streaming the “Mixtapes” ever since. Really nice work!

C4C Website Design for the University of Washington— Another WordPress Site

University of Washington Center for Commercialization

In close collaboration with Debbie Woo, we created and launched the Center for Commercialization website in mid January. Once the layouts and XTHMLtemplates were created we integrated the site into WordPress. WordPress was used so that we could leverage the built in content management system (cms) and integrate various areas of the site that could easily be controlled by the CMS. We should also note that Jean Orlrebeke of Obek Desisn developed the C4C brand as well as initial look and feel of the website. Using her initial layouts as a baseline, we designed additional pages, built and launched the final site.

Fisher Communications Website Design – We’ve launched!

Fisher Communications Website Design

Kicking the project off in late October of 2010, we were commissioned by Fisher Communications to develop and design a new company website. Fisher is a Seattle-based communications and media company focused on creating, aggregating, and distributing information and entertainment to a broad range of audiences.

We launched Fisher’s new website late last week. Using WordPress as a baseline for the framework and content management system, we were tasked to execute on and integrate with a variety of features, such as seamless integration with Taleo, a third party employment tool and various investor-related pages and RSS feeds from Thomson Reuters.

We had a great time working with the Fisher’s internal marketing team and stakeholders of the site. We think the results are pretty great!

ROI Tools that Actually Look Good—A Challenging Website Design

ROI Tool Website Design - Korrio's Cost Savings Calculator
A few months ago our friends at Korrio (and a great client), commissioned us to create an ROI tool that demonstrates the cost-benefits of using their product. It had to speak to a no-techie audience, be simple yet effective and give the user multiple options for sharing the resulting information.

I don’t know about you but when I think about “Return on Investment” tools I think about dry, left-brained analytics tools – no fun for us right-brianers right? As I started doing research I came a across a beautiful ROI project by Google, appropriately called, “Gone Google”. Inspired by what they had created, as well as a few others, we dove right into design.

Yes this project was a bit of a challenge but fortunately the client let us get creative with it and we like that! In terms of coding, fortunately those genius Korrio developers were able to connect the final dots and launch what I think is a really well-rounded web design project. The resulting PDF might be the most impressive part so be sure to take a look.

Microsoft OEM Brand & Logo Design—It’s Great Working with our Redmond Neighbors

Microsoft OEM Logos

Wow, get this, after 28 various marks we then honed in on the final. From there we created 192 variations of the same logo. This, of course, included localization, 1 color and print/rgb versions. Once the logo was complete we had the pleasure of working on additional collateral which helped to define the look and feel of the new brand, namely the style guide, website mastheads, a power point template and business cards, to name a few.

 

The iPad, the Kindle and the Nook, Will They Influence a Paradigm Shift in our Approach to Design?

What’s up with these new gizmos - so much buzz and hype! It may actually be for good reason. I don’t yet own one of these devices but, believe or not, I had the privilege of designing one of the first apps to launch with the iPad. We pretty much had to design blind as the yet-to-be-launched device was under lock and key… I quickly came to realize that I had to approach design in a significantly different way. They say that the approach is similar to designing for the iPhone but even that’s a reach. The iPad is 4 times larger therefore there is much more room for content, navigation, ads, etc. not to mention various new gestures have been added to the mix.

Sure, we can make pretty pictures all day - that’s easy, but what about usability and way finding? How do we create new and intuitive visual queues that help guide the user down a particular path?

Writer Steven Levy of Wired Magazine paints a picture in broad strokes but I found his article inspiring. It may be a bit apple-centric but it’s worth a look!

Does Your Website Look Good on an iPad?

Thanks to the folks over at iPad Peek you can get a quick preview of how your site renders in the iPad both landscape and portrait modes.

The web preview has a few limitations. There, of course, is no touch scrolling, ads turn into pop-ups and flash will still render in the emulator. The real-deal doesn’t support flash. Either way it’s a convenient way to quickly get an idea of how your website will look in the iPad. Take a peek: ipadpeek.com

UIEvolution Website Design—Clean Corporate website with WordPress Integration

UIEvoluiton Website

Based in Kirkland, Washington, UIEvolution is specializes in creating mobile applications and solutions across multiple devices and platforms. They’ve created a variety of applications for clients such as ESPN, Disney and Microsoft Bing, to name a few.

We worked closely with the team to design simple website that would bring their work into the foreground, leverage various social media tools such as WordPress and Twitter and, last but not least generate leads.

It was a great website design project and it has been a pleasure collaborating with the UIEvolution team to create a web site that will make their brand shine! Take a look here…

Senior Designer: Tim Moser

Creative Director: Vincent Dean

16 iPad Design and User Interface Resources

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A few weeks ago a client of mine shot me email indicating that he might be interested in creating an iPad application. By the end of that week my client was oozing so much enthusiasm for creating something that I was only happy to oblige. He already had a huge web site with a substantial amount of users and he was working on the 3rd iteration of a related iPhone app so it only seemed natural that we dive right into something for the iPad.

Where to start? Everyone’s completely green. I’m fairly certain the only real experts at iPad design and development would be the folks out at Apple and even they are waiting on folks like us to help interpret and define what the iPad is fully capable of.

Once I got the official “green light” from my client. I kicked of the project by mining for as much information as I could find. As a result I’ve compiled a list of iPad resources that I hope will be of use. Read the rest of this entry…

Website Design & Social Media Integration for Seattle Company Opscode

Wow, funny how time flies. We’ve been meaning to post this for a couple months now but we’ve been slammed!

It was just a bit intimidating creating a web site for a group of web gurus of this caliper. The Opscode team is “comprised of a team of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world’s largest websites and cloud computing platforms”.

Pixelube stepped up, created the website design then output an XHML template system that integrated with the existing Opscode infrastructure. The Opscode website design and template system was created so that the team could easily integrate it with it’s various social media properties such as the twitter and blog, and rss feeds.

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