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Truckers online prove web 1.0 still a powerful force

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 […]

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2009 Interaction Design Year in review

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 […]

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Communicating your intranet requirements

Are you a company looking for a new intranet? Are you wondering if ThoughtFarmer meets your needs? Are you looking for a way to make your evaluation process a lot easier? Buying software is not an easy job. There’s a ton of software options out there. We’ve been on the other side of the table […]

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VanUE: World Usability Day 2009

World Usability Day happened on November 12, 2009 and a small squad of Vancouver user experience professionals got together at 8:00 a.m. at the Pine Street Community Garden to spend the day together, wondering how to best bring our professional expertise to bear on the issue of “sustainability”—the theme for WUD2009. Cat, Ben, and Barb […]

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Slides: Mobile UI design – user-centred design and UI best practices

If you enjoyed (or if you missed) Selma Zafar’s hugley popular Mobile UI seminars at Wave Front in Vancouver, you’ll be pleased to know what we’ve posted the slides from the session on Slideshare. In her presentation, Selma covered the basics of user-centred design, interaction design principles, and usability testing as they pertain to mobile […]

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OpenRoad welcomes Developer Rodney Gitzel

The team has grown a fair bit in the last few months here at OpenRoad and we’re pleased to announce the arrival of another great developer: Rodney Gitzel. Rodney’s web development expertise goes as far back as OpenRoad’s 15 year history, as editor of Euphony Net-Magazine the first online arts magazine in Canada and publisher […]

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What makes a successful web development project?

We were recently asked the question, “What makes a successful web development project?” by a potential client. It’s a good question, one that I spent a fair bit of time pondering. Every project is different: the clients we work with come from varied industry sectors, have different organizational cultures, and different objectives. Over the past […]