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in Code, Design, Findings, News on March 29th, 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.…
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in Business, Marketing, News on March 29th, 2010
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.…
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in Business, Design, News, Usability, browsers on February 15th, 2010
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…
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in Business, News on February 2nd, 2010
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!
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in Design, News on November 18th, 2009
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/
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in Business, Marketing, News, Reviews on November 17th, 2009
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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in News on November 12th, 2009
PRESS RELEASE -
November 11, 2009
Chicago Interactive Agency, Billups Design, Inc., behind new Adobe® BrowserLab
Adobe Systems, Inc. announces on October 16, 2009 that it has officially released BrowserLab®
Many hail it as the next big thing for web developers.
This innovative new product has its roots in Chicago.
Chicago interactive agency, Billups Design, in partnership with nondisruptive, Inc. set out in 2006 to conceive and invent Meer Meer, a subscription-based, full service web site testing tool for web developers and designers. The tool allowed a subscription user to see their sites remotely on different browser and O/S platforms, document problems and correct…
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in Awards, Code, Design, News on October 20th, 2009
We love our friends across the pond! DesignFridge UK has included billupsdesign.com among its best Web 2.0 sites of 2009. That’s a pretty nice tip of the old derby. If you have time, visit DesignFridge UK, and see their entire gallery of 2009 outstanding web sites designed and developed in html/css. To view our feature page, go here. Thanks, gentle people!
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in Business, News, Software, browsers on June 3rd, 2009
What started as an idea in our humble office on the north side of Chicago is now available to web designers worldwide!
BrowserLab, formerly named Meer Meer, was made available for free trial download on June 2. Read the press release here.
Our principals, Charles Stevenson and Ted Billups, formed a collaboration with Joshua Hatwich and Dean Vukas in 2006 to develop a web-based experience testing tool that would streamline web designers’ cross-browser testing processes and save them thousands of dollars on hardware required to do the tasks.
Together our team worked on all facets of this nascent SaaS idea: application development, remote…
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in Awards, News on May 5th, 2009
It has been a good year for Billups Design in the awards category. We are happy to announce that the 2009 American Design Awards have recognized Billups Design with a Silver Medal for its work on markshale.com. The site was rated for its eCommerce engine, usability and layout, overall brand and interface design and cross-browser compatibility. This is a high honor for us as we’ve always admired the other winners in this semi-annual / annual competition. Congratulations to everyone on the Mark Shale team (SB, SB, RM and RK) and the BD team (RN, TB, CS, SM, and OI)!
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