collaboration & social design

There is incredible potential for people to connect with each other using the web and web technologies. We see this as an essential consideration in the design of every website.

Collaboration is the word that's been traditionally used in the business-world to describe how people work together. And, for many years, there has been a category of software and websites that have been described in terms of enabling collaboration.

More recently, phrases like "social software" and "social networking site" have come into use, as there is more awareness that the vitality of the connection between people online is deeper than just how they work together.

Through our website design process, we work with our clients to find ways in which their website will provide new and better opportunities for collaboration and even deeper social connection between people.

Websites can enable better connections between your company and your customers, between your customers and each other, between your employees and each other, or between you personally and the people you want to connect with—for example, the people who appreciate your art.

Through our strategy & information architecture consulting, we've had the opportunity to create websites used daily by thousands of people to collaborate and connect with each other. We bring this experience to all of our projects.

We also offer "social design consulting", through which we work with companies and individuals to develop strategies for enabling social features on their new or existing websites.

We have extensive experience designing and working with blogs, wikis, discussion forums / bulletin boards, chat systems, and mailing lists. And, our designs can cover not only implementation-related features, but also the organizational and operational features needed to support a dynamic and thriving online social environment.

...since the invention of call waiting.

—Dave Barry