ideacodes

Friday, November 06, 2009

Ideacodes Designs Honk

Ideacodes is pleased to announce that our design work on Honk is now live. Honk is a social platform for car shoppers that gathers and shares opinions and insights from like-minded people to make the process of discovering cars simple, social, and most of all, fun. Powering Honk’s search tool is a social recommendation engine that analyzes opinion and profile data from hundreds of thousands of new car buyers from diverse backgrounds. The result is a unique set of data that allows consumers to search for vehicles based on who they are as an individual, not just the vehicle’s body type, price, and fuel economy.

Posted in Business | Permalink

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Emily Chang Invited to Judge the HOW Interactive Design Award

Ideacodes co-founder Emily Chang is one of three judges for HOW Magazine's 11th Annual Interactive Design Awards. Entries range across media - web, DVD, motion, kiosks - and disciplines, and will be judged on communication/message, navigation/usability, visual design and technical strength. Fellow judges include Liz Danzico, co-founder and Chair of the new MFA in Interaction Design Program, and Sean Donohue, VP, Creative Director of skinnyCorp. Winning entries will be featured in HOW's April 2010 Design Annual.

Posted in Ideacodes in the News | Permalink

Ideacodes and Mind Over Media

Ideacodes is thrilled to be working with Mind Over Media, a team of content and creative experts whose clients include the New York Times, Harvard Business School, Estée Lauder and American Express. Ideacodes is providing a range of services for several of Mind Over Media's projects, ranging from web strategy, UI and UX design, to open source development.

Posted in Business | Permalink

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Emily Chang Cited in WE Magazine’s 100 Women Bloggers to Watch

Emily Chang, designer and co-founder of Ideacodes, has been included in WE Magazine's 100 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2009. WE magazine is a "woman's online magazine, an International Digital Business & Lifestyle Magazine that made it's debut in the fall of 2006. Our focus is on the total woman. WE's audience consists of women who want to explore great destinations, improve their outlook on life, learn quick and easy ways to get and stay healthy, fine out about the latest technology gadgets and information, get some networking tips, become inspired as they read about women making a difference in the world and even ideas for great entertaining and learn how to more effectively and efficiently market and promote their business on and off the web."

Posted in Ideacodes in the News | Permalink

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Ideacodes designs gdgt

Ideacodes is excited to announce that our design work on gdgt is live. gdgt is "a new kind of technology site -- a social gadget platform that enables you to connect with the community through your gadgets, and connect with your gadgets through the community. It's a place for you to engage with your devices and hang out with people who are as passionate about their gear as you are." Congratulations to gdgt's founders, Ryan Block and Peter Rojas, on creating this next generation gadget platform.

Posted in Social Media Business | Permalink

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Ideacodes and MTV International

Ideacodes had the pleasure of working with the social responsibility division of MTV Networks International on the launch of the microsite for Cherry Girl, their newest global talent. At MTVCherryGirl.com, visitors can find out more about her intriguing philosophy of life. The MTV audience will be able to check out this exciting new discovery on-air, online and via mobile when she makes her debut on the channel as part of Earth Day 2009 (April 22). See more about the project in our portfolio.

Posted in Social Media | Permalink

Friday, February 20, 2009

Emily Chang Nominated for the 2009 National Design Awards

Ideacodes co-founder Emily Chang has been nominated for the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards 2009 program for excellence in Interaction Design. This is the first year that they will be giving an award in Interaction Design. The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum ten years ago to honor the best in American design. "First launched at the White House Millennium Council in 2000, the annual Awards program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement. Read more...

Posted in Ideacodes in the News | Permalink

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Ideacodes and the IDEO Redesign

Ideacodes contributed to the 2008 site-wide redesign of ideo.com as interaction designers and consultants. Bringing added perspective to the in-house team, Ideacodes collaborated with core members on navigation and functionality to create "delightful modes of interaction and content presentation."

Posted in Business | Permalink

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Ideacodes Helps Launch Howard Rheingold’s Social Media Classroom

Ideacodes worked on the design and implementation of the public website for Howard Rheingold's Social Media Classroom, which launched today. The Social Media Classroom platform itself, developed by Sam Rose, includes a free and open-source web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes - integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos. Educators are encouraged to use the Colab and SMB materials freely, and there's a hosted version of the Colab communities if you don't want to install your own.

Posted in Social Media Education | Permalink

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Ideacodes Redesigns Sodahead

Ideacodes has been working with Sodahead to redesign the information architecture, user flow and UI. SodaHead is a community that offers a free and dynamic environment to share and gather opinions and meet friends - a place to ask questions, express ideas, and connect over opinions on a wide range of topics.

Posted in Social Media | Permalink

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Emily Chang Cited Among The 50 Most Influential Individuals in Silicon Valley

Ideacodes co-founder, Emily Chang, has been included in NowPublic's 50 Most Influential Individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco. "The Index is a detailed (and transparent) barometer of whose voices are most heard in the digital landscape as new channels - Twitter, Facebook, Flick, YouTube and the like - transform how media is created and spread."

Posted in Ideacodes in the News | Permalink

Monday, June 23, 2008

Ideacodes and the.colis Web Startup Competition

Ideacodes co-founder, Emily Chang, has been invited to be on the jury for TWS2008 (the.colis Web Startup), Israel's office dot com competition, presenting the most promising Israeli web startups of the year. A "well known and respected jury will choose 10 of the most exciting Israeli start ups for a chance to present their venture to more than 500 international and Israeli high tech industry members, private investors and VCs."

Posted in Ideacodes in the News | Permalink

Monday, March 10, 2008

Ideacodes and Adaptive Path

Ideacodes is delighted to be working as a design partner for Adaptive Path, a leading user experience firm in San Francisco.

Posted in Business | Permalink

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Ideacodes and Automattic

Ideacodes is pleased to be working with Matt Mullenweg and Automattic, the company behind WordPress, Akismet, bbPress and other fine web services.

Posted in Social Media Business | Permalink

Monday, February 04, 2008

Emily Chang Quoted in the New York Times

Ideacodes co-founder, Emily Chang, was quoted in an article titled "Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?", in which Noam Cohen compares the websites of the two candidates.

Posted in Ideacodes in the News | Permalink

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Twitterverse Awarded Mashup of the Day

Thanks to MashupAwards for awarding Twitterverse the mashup of the day. Twitterverse is an Ideacodes Labs project which provides a visualization of the most commonly used words in a given time period from the Twitter public timeline. MashupAwards is a hand-picked showcase of the best web mashups based on uniqueness, creativity, utility, content and user experience.

Posted in Ideacodes in the News | Permalink

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Ideacodes and Howard Rheingold

Ideacodes had the pleasure of working with Howard Rheingold on his new video blog, vlog.rheingold.com. In Howard's words: "It all started when I started thinking about updating A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community, which I wrote twenty years ago. It didn't take long to realize that a description of how I spend my time online these days would be conveyed more effectively via video/screencast than plain text." Howard Rheingold is "one of the world's most foremost authorities on the social implications of technology. He was the first Executive Editor of HotWired, an editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, and one of the founders of Electric Minds. He's also credited with inventing the term "virtual community" and the author of Smart Mobs, "widely acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era." We greatly enjoyed implementing Howard's unique design into a video blog.

Posted in Social Media | Permalink

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Ideacodes Redesigns ReadWriteWeb

Ideacodes has been working with Richard MacManus, Founder and Editor of ReadWriteWeb, on a redesign of the site which launched this week. ReadWriteWeb is a leading blog that provides web technology news, reviews and analysis, and is ranked among Technorati's Top 20 blogs in the world.

Posted in Social Media | Permalink

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Ideacodes and the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Ideacodes co-founder, Emily Chang, has been invited to be a judge for the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. The awards "honor talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education. Reflecting the growth in the interactive design field and the importance of the integration between design and development, Adobe has added several new categories in three media areas: Interactive Media, Motion Media, and Traditional Media." Emily is pleased to join this year's prestigious group of design experts. If you're a student, enter now in 12 categories with over 60$K US in cash prizes to be awarded in New York City. Submissions close May 2, 2008.

Posted in Ideacodes in the News | Permalink

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Berkeley College of Engineering Redesign

Ideacodes worked with the prestigious UC Berkeley College of Engineering on its website redesign, including information architecture, design and front-end code. We're proud to have been a part of the cross-discipline team that made this redesign a success. Read more about the project.

Posted in Education | Permalink