In a nutshell Google Me is a social network that doesn’t have the restrictions that come with G-Mail like Google Buzz did.
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A methodical look at Hotel booking engines
5 major brand hotels sites evaluated by users in a formal study. See the results.
Read MoreCreativity International Awards recognizes The Stairwell!
Two sites we’ve been working on for a few years now were recently honored by the 40th Annual Creativity International Awards. In the Blog category, The Stairwell took away Honorable Mention honors, and in the website Category, highschoolsports.net received a Silver Award! Thank you to all the talented and visionary people who help make these two sites lofty standards in online excellence.
The goings on at the UX Book Club Chicago monthly meetings (3/31/10)
If you’re not already familiar with the UX Book Club’s Chicago chapter, let me get you up to speed. It’s a small group of passionate design folks who meet downtown to talk about things in the industry. Such as our jobs, our roll as designers, and what is going on in our professional spheres. We praise each other’s triumphs, as well as bitch about other designers, clients, educators, etc. We also digress into joking about current events, or corporate drug testing, or Battlestar Galactica, or whatever happens to pop up organically throughout the evening. Oh yeah, and there’s books too. Every…
Read MoreSXSW 2010
Being involved in the web industry, one event always comes to mind when talking about big conferences, South by Southwest. One of my New Year’s resolutions was to attend this event to see what it had to offer and to experience what all the commotion was about. I have to admit, SXSW was my first real conference, so I don’t really have anything to compare it to, but from what I have heard and what I experienced, it’s hard to compare it to anything in the first place.
Before heading to the conference I did not really know what to expect.…
Read MoreSony Comes Out Swinging With Massive New Playstation Tech Role Out
Sony’s marketing campaign for the Playstation 3 had more than a few critics when it first started. In 2006 Sony was behind the ball on the interactive controller and was the third of the new generation consoles released. (Behind Nintendo’s WII and Microsoft’s Xbox 360) Add that to a product recall, a steeper than expected price tag, and the fact that they backed Blue-Ray tech before it emerged as the main player (Sure it turned out well, but in 2006 it was a bit of a gamble) and there was talk that Playstation may lose its video game system crown.…
Read MoreAbstracting the web, the iPad, and print media coming full circle.
In another blog post, I brought up the topic of how the web is being “abstracted” into new mediums and devices such as Rich Internet Applications, netbooks and tablets (e.g. the iPad). After pondering this topic a little more, it hit me that that this concept might be a lot bigger than I initially thought, and deserving of an individual posting.
As I already mentioned, there are new mediums and devices coming out that are abstracting the web and displaying the content in other more unique forms. Instead of the typical user sitting down at his/her work station and loading up…
Read MoreWNBA’s Chicago Sky signs with BD for ad creative
We are thrilled to be teaming up with the WNBA’s Chicago Sky in preparation for their upcoming season! BD will be creating a series of online ads promoting the team’s exciting Season Tickets Giveaways leading up to Opening Day. Look for them on your favorite web sites – and get your chance to win a stack of free tickets!
Nike ‘Delicious Is…’ Contest launches today!
We’re excited to announce we’ve completed work on the new Nike Women’s Training ‘Delicious Is…’ Contest and it is set to launch today! The micro-site is loaded with interactive features that allow young female athletes the chance to upload photos and text, vote and review all other entries. We also handled all creative and copywriting too!
You can check it out here: http://www.highschoolsports.net/nike-delicious-is-contest/
Read MoreHaystack is here! Our initial thoughts…
Well, Jason Fried, the President of 37signals, announced the imminent release of Haystack on his Twitter page in October, and now it’s officially here – Haystack. Haystack is similar to a job posting board, but is engineered to allow design agencies to post themselves in a single destination and hopefully get located (like a needle in a haystack) by prospects all over the country or in their city.
This is a good idea for 37signals (the company behind the product) as it potentially places them squarely in the middle of that intersection where design agencies and companies in need of interactive services…
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