January 21, 2008 – 3:40 pm
Eleven days ago, I was driving a completely full 24-foot moving truck from Pasadena, Maryland to Blacksburg, Virginia. Today I’m on a plane returning from New York City to Blacksburg after a new business presentation. There’ve been several adventures in between, not to mention learning experiences. For example, I learned that a completely full 24-foot […]
October 23, 2007 – 12:05 pm
The Roanoke Valley SPCA site has won an Interactive Media Award ™ for outstanding achievement. Contestents are graded on design, content, feature functionality, usability, and standards compliance. This site was a lot of fun to put together, and we’re happy that we were able to help. Congrats RVSPCA.
October 22, 2007 – 9:35 am
SiteLogic Founder Matt Bailey uses the power of analytics — that is, statistical analysis — to determine how Star Trek’s famous Red Shirts can live long, happy lives instead of being messily killed on one of Captain Kirk’s adventures. A noble project. But Bailey’s analysis ignores both context and behavior, and this is the result:
We […]
October 12, 2007 – 3:03 pm
One lesson jumps out from the dozens of interviews and usability tests we’ve conducted with universities like Virginia Tech and Imperial College London: You should blow up your admissions site.
October 5, 2007 – 9:33 am
In an earlier post I wrote about how we have adapted the KJ Method for getting consensus on site architecture. We used this approach extensively when we worked with various administrative and academic departments at Virginia Tech, to revamp their parts of the overall vt.edu site. The people in the Financial Aid office did a […]
September 11, 2007 – 7:41 pm
Site maps used to take us forever. Getting the product guy to agree with the marketing lady, not to mention the customer support team, was a matter of weeks and 10 or more revisions.
It’s still a very challenging process and the best site maps are developed with thorough user research. But we stumbled on a […]
August 20, 2007 – 4:50 pm
Creating Sounds for Tweetsie Memories
Sound on the web is a tricky thing. We’ve all seen, heard actually, gratuitous flash sound effects or techno music that make us reach for the mute button. But sometimes a piece of interactivity really benefits from sound.
Our team recently finished a new feature for the Tweetsie site, called Tweetsie […]
Congratulations from all of us at New City Media to the Roanoke Valley SPCA. Together we launched their newly designed site on June 1st. They’ve been great to work with and we enjoyed working on the site as we’re all animal lovers and almost everyone here at NCM owns at least a cat or dog. […]
New City Media will have its work cited in the forthcoming Graphis Design Journal: Americas, a focused sampling of the best design in America, organized regionally. National Geographic Magazine’s WildCam Africa continues to garner such accolades and has been very well received by the publisher’s readers. This project will mark New City Media’s first […]
This has been a terribly difficult week for us here in Blacksburg, as you are certainly aware following the shootings at Virginia Tech. My wife and I started New City Media in this wonderful little college town in 1995. For all those years most of the troubles of the world have been “out there,” while […]