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A brief "walk through history" of some of the projects we've worked on in the past...
| 03.11.10 | The Secure World Foundation (a private operating foundation dedicated to maintaining the secure and sustainable use of space by engaging with academics, policy makers, industry, scientists and advocates in the space and international affairs communities) hires inovdesigns to conduct a User Experience Evaluation of their public-facing website. |
| 03.01.10 | Inovdesigns is hired by Kaango/Atex, the leading web classifieds software platform in the United States, to provide User Experience and User Interface Design Consulting for the Kaango platform, including bringing best-practices expertise to complex functionality such as online and newspaper print ad configuration. |
| 01.06.10 | Inovdesigns contracted by Paper Direct (a leading supplier of custom pre-designed and high-quality stock desktop papers) to conduct a User Experience Evaluation on the overall shopping, customization, and order processing functionality for both paperdirect.com and ideaart.com websites. |
| 12.01.09 | Inovdesigns partners with Cry Baby Design to redesign Asthmapolis.com, a new kind of disease tracking and reporting service. Through an integrated database and targeted data collection and analysis tools, patients and researchers can work together to help improve public health by tracking how often and where patients use their inhalers to aggregate objective, real-time data on the timing and location of asthma symptoms. |
| 11.06.09 | Inovdesigns selected to re-architect and redesign the small-business-targeted "affiliate" website for Turnhere.com. TurnHere is a leading Internet video marketing services company with a global network of professional filmmakers and over 20,000 customers. |
| 09.07.09 | Inovdesigns selected to provide User Interface and Usability Expertise for the redesign of jonesncti.com. Jones/NCTI is a leader in online broadband training, cable employee training & certification and the new website will enable advanced coursework purchasing, sign-up, and management for both students and instructors, nation-wide. |
| 08.10.09 | Inovdesigns contracted to develop a series of application interfaces to allow FiserISS account holders and client representatives to create, manage, and approve online distribution requests, significantly reducing processing time, customer service support requests, and internal paperwork. |
| 06.23.09 | Inovdesigns is working with Inspiring Apps to create a new iPhone application that integrates with existing financial accounting software packages to allow for "in the field" time, customer, crew and materials tracking and reporting. |
| 06.02.09 | Inovdesigns is hired by Inspiring Apps to provide User Research, Strategy, and Design services for the RiteSeries suite of eProducts available from Church Publishing Incorporated. CPI, in the nearly 100 years since its first publication, has emerged as a principal provider of liturgical and musical resources for The Episcopal Church, along with works on church leadership, pastoral care and Christian formation. |
| 05.07.09 | Inovdesigns is selected to conduct usability testing and an email readership survey for the Colorado Health Foundation. The Foundation invests in the Colorado community through grants and initiatives to health-related nonprofits that focus on goals of increasing the number of Coloradans with health insurance, ensuring they have access to quality, coordinated care and encouraging healthy living. |
| 04.14.09 | Inovdesigns partners with Faction Media to redesign USASwimming.org, the website for the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming in the United States. USA Swimming has over 300,000 members comprised of swimmers from the age group level to the Olympic Team, as well as coaches and volunteers, nation-wide. |
| 02.24.09 | Inovdesigns contracted to provide information architecture expertise towards the development of a new suite of portal-based "alliance" microsites, enabling Avaya to securely and easily share key marketing and operations information with their global partners. |
| 01.11.09 | Inovdesigns continues to work with Thomson Reuters on the second phase of a nation-wide research effort designed to help the WestLaw product development group better understand user behaviors and tasks when conducting legal research. |
| 01.06.09 | Inovdesigns contracted to provide user interface design and usability expertise for a new addition to the award-winning specjm.com website. The new functionality is an online tool that allows building contractors, architects, and specifiers increased flexibiliy and choice when dynamically creating roofing submittal packages to be used during the building specification and approval process. |
| 01.08.09 | Inovdesigns partners with Faction Media to design and develop a new website for Johns Manville to support their OEM customers. The website is intended to provide product and business division information to JM's global OEM customer base. |
| 09.29.08 | Inovdesigns is awarded a contract to lead a nation-wide research project designed to identify the types of legal research activities conducted by Law Attorneys, Associates, Paralegals and other members of the legal community. Findings from the research study will be used to build behavioral profiles of legal researchers in support of product development efforts on WestLaw, the premier online legal research service for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and around the world. |
| 09.01.08 | Specjm.com has been awarded the Best Construction Web Site and JMHomeowner.com has received an Manufacturing Standard of Excellence Acknowledgement in the 2008 Web Marketing Association's WebAwards - the premier annual website award competition that names the best Web sites in 96 industries while setting the standard of excellence for all website development. Inovdesigns was responsible for the User Experience for both sites. |
| 07.16.08 | Inovdesigns is contracted to redesign the user experience for ICON Advisers, Inc's public facing website. ICON Advisers' Investment Committee members use a unique approach to investing that advances the methodology originally developed by Benjamin Graham, the so-called "Father of Securities Analysis." Their proprietary, quantitative system helps identify industries that are not only underpriced, but also possess strength and leadership potential relative to the market as a whole. |
| 06.02.08 | RE/MAX International selects Inovdesigns to provide ongoing usability consulting services for upcoming internal and external web application development projects. |
| 03.24.08 | Inovdesigns selected to provide User Interface and Usability Expertise for a new Partner Marketing Hub for Johns Manville. The new application will bring advanced one-to-one JM product marketing capabilities to insulation contractors and other affiliates. |
| 02.25.08 | Inovdesigns contracted to develop the overall online User Experience for a new Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) scheme that will be used by for the next-generation trading application under development by FiservISS. |
| 01.17.08 | Inovdesigns contracted by Faction Media to provide Usability, User Experience, and Microsoft SharePoint consulting for 5280 Solutions' Dynamic Payables product. Dynamic Payables is a fully-integrated Accounts Payable/invoice receipt business solution that streamlines invoice transactions, processing and approvals for Enterprise Resource Programs (ERPs), Windows Workflow Foundation and SharePoint applications. |
| 01.08.08 | Inovdesigns contracted to provide Information Architecture expertise to the development of a new corporate intranet for Johns Manville. The new intranet will be built on the SAP portal platform and will eventually support over 8,500 employees in more than 40 locations in North America, Europe and Asia. |
| 12.03.07 | Zia Consulting contracts Inovdesigns to design and develop product information landing pages for Agilent Technologies in support of a worldwide campaign to promote a new line of digital oscilliscopes. |
| 11.16.07 | Inovdesigns selected by the Sun-Times News Group to provide design and strategy recommendations for a new faceted browsing mechanism for Centerstage, Chicago's original online city guide featuring the web's only neighborhood-centric "Virtual L." |
| 10.08.07 | Inovdesigns partners with Faction Media to develop a new corporate website for 5280 Solutions, a technical consulting and software development company based in Highlands Ranch, Colorado that is a also a market leader in developing student loan origination, servicing, and management solutions. |
| 09.19.07 | Inovdesigns selected to provide User Interface Prototypes and Usability Expertise for Newdea. The redesigned "Giving Center" will help major donors make social investments with confidence by providing a technology platform that empowers nonprofits to measure, communicate and achieve real impact. |
| 08.20.07 | Faction Media contracts Inovdesigns to provide PHP, HTML, and CSS production support for a lead-generation microsite for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation |
| 08.06.07 | Inovdesigns selected by Lively!Marketing to provide Flash production support for a new website for Coherent Investments, a Broomfield, Colorado-based Venture Capital firm. |
| 07.16.07 | Inovdesigns is selected to provide Information Architecture and User Experience Design expertise in redesigning FiservISS's corporate intranet portal. The updated version of the intranet will place an emphasis on bringing real-time business data to employees' desktop through interactive, customizable dashboards. |
| 06.29.07 | Keystone Resort contracts Inovdesigns to conduct a second-round of usability testing on the official Keystone Resort website. |
| 06.14.07 | IP Commerce selects Inovdesigns to provide Information Architecture and User Experience Design Expertise for the redesign of their corporate website. |
| 05.24.07 | Sub4Solutions, Inc. contracts Inovdesigns to conduct a User Experience Audit for planetofficefurniture.com - an online branch of Office Liquidators, Inc. which offers Colorado's Largest Selection of New, Used, and refurbished office furniture. |
| 05.08.07 | Keystone Resort, part of the Vail Resorts family of premier North American Ski Resorts, contracts Inovdesigns to conduct usability testing on the official Keystone Resort website. |
| 04.13.07 | Johns Manville contracts Inovdesigns to provide Information Architecture and User Interface Design expertise for the development of a new consumer-oriented website, providing educational and JM-product-related information targeted towards current homeowners and future custom home builders/buyers. |
| 04.10.07 | Inovdesigns selected to provide Usability and User Interface Design expertise towards the development of a new customer-centric Financial Investment Trading and Account Management application being developed by FiservISS's Investment Advisor Services division. |
| 04.09.07 | Inter@ctivate contracts Inovdesigns to provide User Interface Design expertise to a new online-courseware building application as part of the Hass Avocado Board's Growers Extranet. |
| 03.20.07 | Inovdesigns partners with Treble Red Media to provide User Interface Design expertise to DG Fast Channel for their AdGallery and AdCatalog Digital Asset Management Systems, designed for use by the advertising industry. |
| 03.12.07 | Inovdesigns selected to develop a user-centered approach to researching, analyzing, and redesigning the Fiserv ISS web portal. Fiserv Investment Support Services is one of the nation's largest independent trust companies and provides services and back office support to a wide variety of investment professionals and investors. The parent company, Fiserv, Inc., was recently added to the Fortune 500 list. |
| 03.08.07 | Industrial Wisdom contracts Inovdesigns to provide Information Architecture and overall User Experience Design consulting for a Qwest.com redesign project that focuses on increasing the availability and integration of customer support information across the entire Qwest.com site. |
| 02.20.07 | Inovdesigns chosen to provide User Experience and Information Architecture consulting for Webroot Software's corporate website and product storefront. Webroot's family of Internet security software, led by its award-winning anti-spyware program, Spy Sweeper, is internationally recognized for excellence, ease of use and value. |
| 02.07.07 | Inovdesigns selected to provide Information Architecture and Usability expertise towards the continued development of the seasondreams.com website to accomodate an expanded product line and future online and offline marketing efforts. |
| 01.29.07 | Inovdesigns contracted by Johns Manville to provide Information Architecture and User Interface Design expertise to the development of a new B2B-focused Building Products and Marketing Support website. |
| 01.04.07 | Inovdesigns selected to provide User Interface design expertise and production support for Johns Manville's Universal Locator Search Tool using Mapquest's Site Advantage. The tool will enable JM to easily configure and support an online database of retailer, contractors, and builders that use JM products. |
| 11.29.06 | Inovdesigns contracted to conduct usability testing on the official Breckenridge Ski Resort website. |
| 11.17.06 | IP Commerce selects Inovdesigns to provide Information Architecture and Usability Expertise for the development on a new website to promote PASS (Payments as Secure Service); a framework for delivering financial tools and information to businesses using Microsoft's Vista Platform. |
| 10.20.06 | Inovdesigns contracted to provide Information Architecture and production support for jmbuildgreen.com, a Johns Manville website created to help builders and contractors identify which JM products qualify for potential LEED credits (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) in the U.S. Green Building Council's Green Building Rating System™ |
| 10.23.06 | Inovdesigns selected to design and develop the new mountainsidehomes.com website. Mountainside Homes is a small, family-owned business offering four luxury vacation homes (3,500 sq. ft) in beautiful Steamboat Springs, Colorado. |
| 09.18.06 | Inovdesigns contracted by Inter@ctivate, Inc. to develop a new User Interface for Hass Avocado's online marketing planning system, enabling avocado marketers nation-wide to develop, compare, and optimize strategic marketing plans in over 30 different markets. |
| 08.27.06 | Inovdesigns partners with Faction Media to provide Information Architecture and User Interface Design services for Avaya's Partner Marketing Central application - an interactive resource for Avaya's Marketing Partners to manage online and offline marketing campaigns and campaign materials. |
| 08.03.06 | Inovdesigns contracted by Industrial Wisdom to provide User Interface Design expertise for Comergent's eBusiness Quotes & Proposals product suite. The system is an integral part of Comergent's eBusiness System, helping customers, partners, and employees access product information, search for and configure solutions, produce quotes, and place orders. |
| 07.12.06 | Inovdesigns selected to provide Information Architecture and User Experience Design expertise to MWH Global, Inc. on a new corporate intranet to serve over 6,000 employees in over 30 countries around the world. |
| 06.26.06 | Lively Marketing! selects Inovdesigns to provide Information Architecture and UI Design services on a redesign of the Longmont United Hospital website. |
| 06.10.06 | Inovdesigns partners with Faction Media to develop a new online presence for Season Dreams - the largest online retailer of pre-lit Christmas and Holiday trees. |
| 06.02.06 | jmhomeinsulation.com wins the Grand PEAK Award at the 2006 American Marketing Association's Colorado Chapter's PEAK Awards ceremony. Inovdesigns provided Information Architecture and User Interface Design expertise to the project. |
| 04.10.06 | Inovdesigns contracted to provide user experience design expertise for Total Heart, developers of a comprehensive suite of software tools to help therapists design, monitor, and report outcomes for heart rehabilitation programs. The revolutionary system also includes an easy-to-use patient interface for tracking daily measures. |
| 03.25.06 | R.H. Donnelley contracts Inovdesigns to design and develop customized Life Event Landing Pages for dexonline.com - driving additional ad traffic to DexMedia's advertisers through SEO. |
| 03.18.06 | Inovdesigns partners with Faction Media to develop a new, dynamic project planning tool as part of Johns Manville's consumer-oriented insulation website. |
| 03.01.06 | Hopscotch Technologies selects Inovdesigns to provide an expert User Experience Evaluation of BOB, a new consumer product designed to help parents manage the time their children participate in in-home media activities. |
| 02.10.06 | Inovdesigns' President, Bill Pawlak, invited to speak at a three-day "Communication Days" Summit for the Department of Communication at CU-Denver. His talk is entitled, "Experience Design From Many Perspectives: A Case Study of a Corporate Intranet." and will compare/contrast a number of User Experience Research Activities used for a recent project. |
| 01.29.06 | Inovdesigns' President, Bill Pawlak, invited to participate in usability-focused talk scheduled for the March meeting of The Mile High Chapter of the Project Management Institute. |
| 01.08.05 | Inovdesigns contracted to provide ongoing Information Architecture, Usability, and User Interface Design expertise for RH Donnelley/Dex Media application development for 2006. |
| 12.15.05 | Inovdesigns selected to provide User Interface design expertise for two new software applications for DexMedia. One manages DexOnline.com's Search Engine Optimization data, the other is an Enterprise-wide Data-Management System to help facilitate the migration and sales of print-based advertising to the internet. |
| 12.07.05 | Inovdesigns selected to provide Information Architecture for the redesign of the LuciData website. LuciData offers multiple service solutions to address data recovery, electronic discovery, employee monitoring for internal data security threats, and data forensic/investigative needs. |
| 11.07.05 | Inovdesigns contracted by Statera to provide user-centered analysis and design expertise for improving the Fuller Towne and Country Properties Real Estate Listing website. |
| 10.16.05 | Inovdesigns contracted to develop new corporate website for MosaicATM - an independent Air Traffic Control research and development firm based in Reston, Virginia. |
| 09.23.05 | Inovdesigns selected to provide Information Archtecture and Usability expertise in the support of a new Architect-Focused Roofing Materials Website for Johns Manville Roofing Systems. |
| 09.01.05 | Inovdesigns contracted to provide production and design support for a Microsoft Sharepoint Portal for New World Restaurant Group, Inc., owners of five independent "quick casual" restaurant brands including Einstein Bros., Noah's New York Bagels, Manhattan Bagel, Chesapeake Bagel Bakery and New World Coffee. |
| 08.08.05 | Inovdesigns wins follow-on contract to redesign The Piton Foundation website, based on the user research we conducted in Q2 and Q3 of 2005. |
| 08.06.05 | Inovdesigns contracted to provide production and design support for an enterprise-wide Content Management System to support Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for Duke Energy - a Fortune 500 company that produces, converts, delivers, and sells energy and energy services. |
| 06.03.05 | Dex Media engages Inovdesigns to provide production expertise to the development of a new self-service Advertiser account management tool for Dex Online Listings. |
| 05.08.05 | Dex Media selects Inovdesigns to provide Information Architecture and Usability expertise to the development of a sales dashboard tool - one of a series of new components planned for the existing company-wide intranet portal. |
| 04.16.05 | Inovdesigns partners with Interactivate to provide Information Architecture and User Interface Design expertise to The Irvine Company - a 110-year-old, privately held real estate investment company best known for the balanced, sustainable communities it has planned and created on The Irvine Ranch in Orange County, California. |
| 03.22.05 | Inovdesigns is awarded a contract to conduct user research and analysis for the Piton Foundation - a private operating foundation that develops and implements programs to improve public education, expand economic opportunities for families, and strengthen low-income neighborhoods in Denver. |
| 02.17.05 | Inovdesigns partners with the Synapsys Group and Digital Latitudes to create a new, consumer focused DIY website for Johns Manville (a Berkshire-Hathaway company), a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality building and specialty products. |
| 01.24.05 | Home & Abroad selects Inovdesigns to provide Usability, Information Architecture, and User Interface Design expertise for the development of a unique, educationally-focused travel service that matches customized itineraries and activities to travelers interests and needs. |
| 01.11.05 | Inovdesigns' President, Bill Pawlak, presents "Designing Usability Into Products: The Engineering, Art, and Psychology of Prototyping" at the first-ever joint Rocky Mountain Internet User's Group (RMIUG) / Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM-SIGCHI) Meeting on January 11, 2005. |
| 12.06.04 | Dex Media selects Inovdesigns to provide an Enterprise Information Architecture solution for their internal Plumtree-Portal-based corporate intranet. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, Dex Media, Inc. is the exclusive, official publisher for Qwest Communications International and is the world's largest privately owned incumbent directory publisher. |
| 10.18.04 | Inovdesigns selected to provide IA and UI design expertise to Tri-State G&T, a wholesale supplier of electricity to 44 member distribution systems throughout Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming. The project involves the IA and navigation design for a new Oracle Portal-based company intranet. |
| 10.01.04 | Inovdesigns provides IA and design consulting services to Prosum Solutions, a Human Factors Consulting firm servicing clients within complex technical domains such as the process control industry. |
| 09.22.04 | Inovdesigns partners with HungryMind to provide Information Architecture and Design expertise to the USGS' Earthquake Hazards Project (EHP) public website. |
| 08.30.04 | Gambro Healthcare selects Inovdesigns to provide UI Design expertise for a next-generation suite of dialysis and clinical administration software package. |
| 08.02.04 | Sprint PCS selects Inovdesigns to develop UI prototypes for finding and downloading paid content (i.e., ringtones, images, games) as part of the Spring PCS Vision service. |
| 07.21.04 | Inovdesigns chosen to provide UI design and usability consulting for MyProBuilder.com - a web-based system designed to enhance communications between home builders and buyers. |
| 07.02.04 | NewGuard selects Inovdesigns to provide Information Architecure and interactive prototypes to support the redesign of the new Cable Center website. |
| 06.16.04 | Inovdesigns chosen to provide development production support services for release build of Exclusive Resorts' new membership portal and reservation system. |
| 06.03.04 | UserCentric contracts Inovdesigns to provide a full-featured click-through prototype to support usability testing of Verizon Wireless's advanced, broadband-based information service. |
| 05.15.04 | Fair Isaac contracts Inovdesigns to provide UI design and consultation on new Precision Marketing website. |
| 04.11.04 | Inovdesigns chosen to provide usability consulting services on behalf of Christian Copyright Licensing, International's music licensing and download service. |
| 03.19.04 | Inflow contracts Inovdesigns to provide UI design and consulting services for a new Customer Service trouble ticket submission, tracking, and resolution tool. |
| 02.27.04 | Inovdesigns contracted to conduct usability and user experience evaluation on College of Financial Planning's online student self-service application for grades, coursework, and student-teacher communcations. |
| 02.17.04 | UserCentric selects Inovdesigns to provide a full-featured click-through prototype of Verizon Wireless's next-generation user interface for mobile devices in support of usability testing. |
| 01.15.04 | Interactivate contracts Inovdesigns to provide user interface designs for a dynamic charting and data application for the Haas Avocado Commission and the new avocado.org site. |
| 01.15.04 | BEA contracts Inovdesigns for User Interface prototypes for the next release of Web Logic Portal 9.0. |
| 01.05.04 | Inovdesigns contracted to provide UI design and development production support services for a Exclusive Resorts' new website, membership portal and reservation system. |
| 12.02.03 | StorageTek selects Inovdesigns to provide user interface prototypes and accessibility guidelines for an Indigo configuration and monitoring system. |
| 11.15.03 | Interactivate contracts Inovdesigns to provide Information Architecture expertise on a redesigned version of Jenny Craig's "MyJenny" suite of online, personalized weight management tools. |
| 10.30.03 | UserCentric selects Inovdesigns to provide user interface design expertise for Rockwell Firstpoint's new web-based Call-Center Application and Management Tool. |
| 09.21.03 | Inovdesigns hired to provide user interface design and usability testing services for the USA Swimming Organization. |
| 08.20.03 | Fair Isaac selects Inovdesigns to provide site architecture and user interface design services for a new Healthy Choice site. |
| 08.13.03 | SmartSearch Marketing - a Search Engine Optimization company - contracts Inovdesigns to provide site architecture, design, and production services for their new corporate website. |
| 08.03.03 | UserCentric selects Inovdesigns to develop user interfaces in support of usability testing for BellSouth's new Customer Center Framework. |
| 06.29.03 | Eccentron, LLC contracts Inovdesigns to provide usability design input for The Eccentron, a unique, patent-pending excercise technology that works the muscles eccentrically - or negatively - for powerful strength gains, yet with low cardiac intensity. |
| 06.23.03 | F4 Technologies (now Rally Software Development Company) selects Inovdesigns to provide ongoing user interface design services for a new software development management solution based on a suite of collaborative, web-based applications. |
| 01.18.03 | PacerCATS, a division of Ticketmaster, contracts Inovdesigns to provide user interface prototypes and graphic design services for both a new Point-Of-Sale (POS) touchscreen system and a Venue-Management System. |
| 11.11.02 | Inovdesigns conducts usability review and provides design consultation for i-Tracker, an interactive Customer Information Web-based Portal for iStructure customers. |
| 11.06.02 | Optavia Corporation selects Inovdesigns to provide usability design input for KARDS, a new, handheld information system used by Kraft Foods, Inc. |
| 10.14.02 | SeCure Nutrition selects Inovdesigns for a new Nutricuticals eCommerce Store design and development project. |
| 10.01.02 | Inovdesigns chosen to design user interfaces for a new USA Swimming Organization's Member Administration System. |
| 07.22.02 | ComTecCo selects Inovdesigns to design and develop the new Com-Tec-Co, Cellmate International, and CTCO websites. |
| 07.01.02 | ComTecCo (Luxembourg) selects Inovdesigns to partner on the development of the new Carib International caribsports.com website. |