productivity by design?

We believe good design improves productivity in everyday life. (Not so people can work more, but so people can work at what matters.)

Whether the product is a complex website or a simple tool like a hammer, by nature of design it should be easy to use, intuitive and work the way you expect.

on the burner

We can't tell you about it just yet but check back in early 2008, you won't be disappointed.

THE POWER OF ONE BLOG

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EVERYTHING WE LIKE
(and maybe you will like too)

  • A List Apart
  • 37 Signals
  • Creative Good
  • Coudal Partners
  • Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything
  • McSweeney's Internet Tendancy
  • iPhone
  • Scott Berkun
  • GTD
  • Omnifocus
  • Jesse James Garrett
  • Business 2.0 (RIP 2007)
  • Pareto's Principle - The 80-20 Rule

CLIENTS, PAST AND PRESENT

  • Curves
  • Prevention
  • Men's Health
  • vh1/Celebrity Fit Club
  • NBCU/iVillage.com
  • O Magazine
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Country Living
  • Redbook
  • MarieClaire
  • Seventeen.com
  • Bazaar
  • Esquire
  • Bicycling
  • Rubin Museum of Art
  • McGraw-Hill Higher Education
  • Mingei International Museum

FEATURED PROJECTS

featured work Flat Belly Diet

Flat Belly Diet!
Subscription-based diet website based on the “Flat Belly Diet” book from the Editors of Prevention

what we did: user-experience design
featured work lamaze

Lamaze magazine
Magazine companion site to Lamaze International

what we did: user-experience design
featured work vh1

VH1 Celebrity Fit Club online fitness site
Subscription-based diet and fitness companion to VH1's Celebrity Fit Club TV show

what we did: user-experience design
featured work mens health

Men's Health Personal Trainer
Subscription-based fitness training website from the experts at Men's Health Magazine

what we did: user-experience design

featured work O Magazine

O Magazine online marketing
Online marketing - including eblasts, sweepstakes, and microsites - for O Magazine and O at Home

what we did: online marketing design
featured work country living

Country Living House of the Year 2007
Interactive Flash house tour

what we did: user-experience design & flash development
featured work explore art 1

Explore Art by RMA & NEH
Database driven Flash site created to display Himalayan art through sophisticated image galleries and video documentaries.

what we did: user-experience design

featured work explore art 2

Arts of the Islamic World
Database driven flash online museum of Islamic art.

what we did: user-experience design

featured work mcgraw hill

McGraw-Hill Primary Source Investigator
Database driven flash application created to give educators and students research access to rare historical primary sources

2006 Horizon Gold Award Winner

what we did: user-experience design

featured work mens health 2

Men's Health Personal Trainer marketing tour
Interactive Flash marketing tour promoting the MHPT website

what we did: user-experience design & flash development

featured work redken

Hearst Magazines online marketing
Online marketing – including eblasts, sweepstakes, microsites, and advertorials - for Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Country Living, Marie Claire, and Harper's Bazaar

what we did: online marketing design
featured work biggest loser

Rodale online marketing
Online marketing for NBC's Biggest Loser, Men's Health, and Bicycling

what we did: online marketing design