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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OpenRoad is pleased to announce the addition of Vince Pan, Project Manager to the company. Vince Pan joins the OpenRoad team as a Project Manager/Business Analyst. With a Mechanical Engineering degree from UBC, Vince began life as a Project Manager 14 years ago at an engineering consulting firm. The intrigue and allure of the software […]
On April 17 Travis Smith from Hop Studios provided a review of BC’s three political party websites on CBC Radio’s Early Edition. Travis provided a good, brief review commenting on their creative elements and visual design. What I noticed was missing in his review was the usability angle: can users do what they need to […]
It’s already the end of April here at OpenRoad and 2009 is going quickly. We’re pleased to say that we’ve added some great new employees here and watched one of our sites go live. (spring has sprung at the OpenRoad office. photo: gordonr) Welcome again to Selma Zafar, Mark Johnston, Jen Gerth, ThoughtFarmer’s Allie Henze […]
Disclosure: Neither OpenRoad nor myself has any affiliation with Lenovo nor their battery recall program (other than owning a few of their laptops). Lenovo is was unaware of this blog post and has made no contribution to its contents. A recall is surely one of the most difficult and potentially costly situations that a company […]
