Social Media Extroversion: Does your brand need to get out more often?

by Erik May 5, 2010 • 03:53 pm • Comments (1)

Several months ago, we created our own Olive and Company Facebook Page. This fact probably won’t surprise anyone since A) we are in the creative services industry and more and more of our projects include social media elements, and B) most of us have been actively using Facebook as individuals for quite some time now. With that said, we thought we’d take some time to discuss our reasons for creating a Facebook Page, and invite you to follow us as our Page(1) grows and evolves.

Expanding the Web’s visual vocabulary

by Erik January 14, 2010 • 12:21 pm • Comments (3)

The following article was originally included in the October 2009 issue of our OliveNotes newsletter, but we feel like the content is worth sharing with non-subscribers as well, so we’re republishing it here in its entirety. We’ve also included a brief postscript to update a few aspects of the article. As always, please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Designing a Web app UI, part 2: The Concepts

by Tom January 4, 2010 • 04:16 pm • Comments (0)

Quite a while back, I shared some insight into a project where we were designing the UI for a soon-to-be-released Web app. Now we’ll take a look at the concepts we presented the client and the feedback they provided. As before, the client and project are held in confidence. Here’s a look at our first round: