Not a lot of posts this month. I’ve been swamped with work, life, and travel. Lots of great stuff going on!
In the meantime, RDVO is still hiring like mad! We have immediate openings for seasoned .Net developers looking to get involved in some great new projects.
Here’s the job listing if you’re interested.
Email me directly if you’d like to know more.
We’re again looking for amazing people to join our team at RDVO. We have a number of new interactive and user experience projects for clients like Microsoft, Monster.com, and Gillette. We are mostly seeking people for full-time positions but are also open to working with freelancer.
We’re specifically looking for the following roles but as usual we’re on the lookout for pros in all disciplines:
These and other positions are listed on the careers section of the RDVO website.
You can also email your resume/portfolio directly to RDVO: jobs at rdvo.com.
There’s an interesting presentation from Mule Design on how a designer’s approach and strategy for copy can make or break a digital interface.
For a lot of projects, copy and wording are considered “icing” or an element of the design process that gets fitted in later—often with little or no involvement from designers. While many user interface experts believe that digital interfaces cannot support copious amounts of copy (the concept that users scan rather than read), the trend in UI design is more copy, not less. Wikipedia and Facebook are both great examples of how text can be used as the core of the user experience.
The presentation also discusses new communication and expression trends that are evolving as aspects of Web 2.0 – the concept that “We aren’t writing, we are speaking in text.”
The presentation, Copy as Interface, is embedded below.
Things have been crazy at RDVO the last few months. We’ve just wrapped up our best quarter ever, and there a lot of great projects and announcements coming down the pike.
We’re also aggressively hiring. We have immediate openings for interaction designers, producers, and developers. Check out the RDVO jobs page to see the latest openings.
Last week we launched HunterPatients.com, an information resource for a rare genetic disease called Hunter Syndrome. We developed this project for Shire HGT.
Free ice cream at JP Licks. Red Sox opening day. Impromptu jazz ensemble in The Square… Springtime is finally here!
We just found out today that RDVO’s work for the Gillette Young Guns has been named a 2008 Webby Award Honoree in the celebrity/fan category. Details on the awards and honorees can be found here.
Winning a Webby Award is a great honor – congrats to both our internal team and fantastic and wise clients at Gillette.
Interested in Silverlight and WPF? Mike Demopoulos, partner and creative director at RDVO, maintains WPFDev.com, a growing compendium of the latest projects, technology advances, and how-tos for Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
At RDVO, we’ve identified Silverlight/WPF as an exciting and emerging new technology for building truly dynamic web applications. While the technology has yet to truly take off, it will only be a matter of time until it’s embraced by a wider audience.
Take a look at WPFDev.com for a taste of what’s to come and see how cutting-edge organizations are already using the WPF and Silverlight platforms.
Over the weekend RDVO launched the new Gillette Young Guns Website. It’s an update to the original site we launched last year. The site is a Flash-HTML hybrid website that’s updated every week with the latest driver information, race results, and general news. It’s quickly becoming one of the most visited NASCAR fan sites on the web.
It’s a really great site that solidly supports Gillette’s growing NASCAR promotions. The site was a 2007 MITX Award winner for Best Entertainment/Sports Website.
The new website was refitted and updated with a number of new features and functions. Two new drivers—Denny Hamlin and Clint Bowyer—joined the Young Guns and now prominently featured on the site. We also developed driver-specific screensavers that are automatically updated with news, driver updates, and other exclusives. There is a wealth of multimedia, images, and text content tailored for NASCAR fans.
We also extended out existing multimedia features and content, including our Google Maps-driven track locator. Several new community and content features are planned for later this year.
Congrats to the combined Gillette and RDVO team for pulling together a great new site!
I was recently profiled at Communication Arts as part of their “Insights” feature. Check out the article. I basically ramble about why I love social bookmarking, Edward Tufte, 80s music and rotisserie ovens (set it and forget it). It’s great to get a little bit of press…although I hope I don’t seem like too much of a dork!
Communication Arts recently went through a redesign and rolled Design Interact into the main site. The new site looks great and is improved by the integration of their interactive stuff.
My company, RDVO, is looking to hire a number of new people in our digital strategy and research group. This is the team I lead and we work with clients to develop the underlying strategy and direction for projects ranging for digital products, web applications, and large-scale websites. We do a lot of cutting-edge work and our strategy folks are really on the front-lines.
Responsibilities will include:
The full job description and information on how to apply is available at rdvo.com.