We’re thrilled to announce the date of our Second Modern Web Development Workshop. This time we are headed for Seattle!
Upcoming Modern Web Dev Workshop in Seattle!
16 Jul 2013
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IxDA Portland July | Microinteractions: Designing with Details
11 Jul 2013
IxDA is a global network dedicated to the professional practice of Interaction Design and the Portland chapter usually meets on the third Tuesday of each month. July’s event focused on microinteractions, and we were fortunate to have the author of the recently published book on the topic, Dan Saffer, discuss these ‘small moments that add up to a delightful customer experience’.
A half-baked defense of carousels
11 Jul 2013
Recently, the web community has been sharing a link that argues that carousels don’t work.
A visit from Portland Homeless Family Solutions
9 Jul 2013
Earlier today, our good friends from Portland Homeless Family Solutions stopped by to meet our team.
Webvisions 2013 Post 2 - More Sketchnotes from the Conference
2 Jul 2013
Back at the end of May, I went to the 2013 Webvisions Conference. I had decided that I would use the conference as an opportunity to take some “Sketchnotes” and post them to the blog as my contribution of what I learned at WVs this year. My post last month was on “The Art of Explanation by Lee LeFever”. This month, I have 2 new sketch notes that I have uploaded. .
Putting pen to paper... by season
2 Jul 2013
We look back at all of our design and development clients since 2006 and breakdown, by month and season, when they made a decision to hire us.
CreativeMornings June
28 Jun 2013
In my role as a Business Developer at Planet Argon, it’s important to keep connected to Portland’s creative and business community. One of the ways I attempt to gather local intelligence and randomly bump into interesting strangers from other companies, is to regularly attend several of the awesome networking type events around town. There are many to choose from, but this post will focus specifically on CreativeMornings.
Design Processes for Brainstormr Mobile, Our New iPhone Application
18 Jun 2013
When I first came on staff as a User Experience Designer at Planet Argon, one of my very first projects was to take our responsive site, Brainstormr and bring it into the mobile world by building an iPhone application for it. My experience designing Brainstormr was the first time I had gotten an opportunity to do a Mobile Application design and I jumped at the opportunity. There was a lot of research and learning involved, but it was totally worth it, and now i am proud to say my first application design came out a success. Here are a few things I learned along the way.
Brainstormr mobile App Launched
18 Jun 2013
We've launched a native iOS app that everyone can collaborate on or offline, export ideas to Evernote, collect ideas from their social networks and keep up with their Brainstormr lists on-the-go.
Internships Create Professionals
13 Jun 2013
Perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned while being at Planet Argon has been the value of learning on the job. As a design student, there is freedom to create something that is largely for your own visual tastes. But in a professional environment, the world changes when there’s a client and an approval process.