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OpenRoad VP Gordon Ross shares his thoughts on two great days of presentations and discussions at the inaugural OpenGovWest conference in Seattle, WA.

On Saturday March 28, 2010, I hosted a session at day 2 of the OpenGovWest conference that asked the participants what the architecture of gov’t 2.0 looked like, from a high level. I was interested in what other gov’t organizations around Washington, Oregon, California, as well as BC, had done in terms of building their […]

Not long ago, a client asked us the following questions: How much content should we have on a page? What is an average page length in words? And somewhat predictably, I answered, “It depends.” But I went one step further. I let them know why and how it depends.

With the new year upon us, instead of looking backwards to where we were with usability and user experience design, I prefer to look into the future. Upon reflection of past 10 years in which I have been working in the field, user experience has progressed in leaps and bounds. The list below is short […]

With over 15,000 self-proclaimed social media experts on Twitter and all of the year-end buzz about Web 2.0 concepts in everyone’s 2009 top 10 list, it’s often easy to overlook some of the basic business value provided by that other Web, you know, the older more pedestrian Web: Web 1.0. In 2006, OpenRoad was awarded […]

With the end of the year upon us, I thought it would be appropriate to take some time to reflect on the evolution of interaction design in this last year. This year proved to be interesting with some positive advancements in the interaction design trends. Here are some of my favourites that have worked successfully […]