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 ...
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.”
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 ...
Female Bloggers
I wanted to take a moment and thank the following bloggers and sites for including me in their recent lists of top/favorite female bloggers. I don’t tend to pay the most attention to lists and rankings. There’s always deserving people that don’t get included and the general nature of lists is subjective. That said, I ...
Emily Chang Cited Among The 50 Most Influential Individuals in Silicon Valley
Emily Chang, designer and co-founder of Ideacodes, has been included in NowPublic’s 50 Most Influential Individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco. “The Index is a detailed (and transparent) barometer of who’s voices are most heard in the digital landscape as new channels – Twitter, Facebook, Flick, YouTube and the like – transform how media is created ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Quoted in the New York Times
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.
Twitterverse Awarded Mashup of the Day
Thanks to MashupAwards for awarding Twitterverse the mashup of the day. Twitterverse is an Ideacodes Labs project which and 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 ...
Ideacodes and Howard Rheingold
Ideacodes is delighted to work 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 ...
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.
Emily Chang 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 ...
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.
Social Design Strategies Panel at SXSW 2008
Emily Chang and Max Kiesler‘s proposed SXSW panel, Social Design Strategies, has been selected for SXSW 2008. The panel description: “Now that social networking is quickly becoming a regular feature set, designers need to understand the dynamics of designing experiences that encourage social behavior, while giving individuals a sense of privacy, personal gain, and ownership. ...
Ideacodes Featured in Netdiver
Ideacodes is proud to be featured in Netdiver‘s highly selective portfolio section and What’s New. Netdiver, created by the extraordinary Carole Guevin, is a digital culture magazine that’s been going strong for over a decade. It’s “one of the pioneering new media portals devoted to tutoring, empowering and stimulating creativity as well as excellence in ...
eHub in PC Magazine’s Top 100
eHub gets listed in PC Magazine’s list of “sites that cover the Web 2.0 revolution” and their Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites, which includes “…picks for the top new or under-the-radar sites of 2007. You may not know many of the sites on this list, but you should.” On eHub, writer Brian Heater says: “We’re ...