Are you in the United States? Andrei and Chris are also in the US.

A daft picture of five guys pulling a cockerel (for fun).

People

We’re a tight-knit group of designers — Alan Colville and Jon Tan — and developers — Andrei Zmievski, Chris Shiflett, and Jon Gibbins. Between us, we’ve authored and coauthored half a dozen books; given more than a hundred talks at conferences like OSCON, South by Southwest, FOWA, and Webstock; and helped the likes of Yahoo, Digg, National Geographic, Visa, and BlackBerry.

  • Alan Colville
  • Andrei Zmievski
  • Chris Shiflett
  • Jon Gibbins
  • Jon Tan

A day or two ago, Chris was in Prospect Park to see Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. Jon Gibbins was listening to Chris Not-Chris & The Dead Peasants. A few days ago, Alan was looking forward to taking the kids home to Ireland to see my folks tomorrow. Jon Tan was happily watching Jon Gibbins enthuse about customising Google Maps v3. Andrei was enjoying Turkish coffee at ⌘Philz while trying to write a medium-length text on the iPad.

Technique

Making web applications and sites needs hearty portions of imagination, design, and engineering. This is how we mix them together:

  1. Plan:

    We do the research to understand the problem we want to solve, the people we’re helping, and the context we’re working within.

  2. Prototype:

    We sketch on paper and in code, shaping ideas and concepts into a prototype that we can test, evaluate, and iterate until it’s sound.

  3. Publish:

    We release! No time to rest, though: a quick pint, then back to researching, prototyping, and publishing the next iteration.

Talk to us

Thanks for stopping by. We’re engaged until the end of 2010, but we’ll be very happy to hear from you if you’d like to discuss working with us. Please tell us all about you and your ideas in the box below (it will keep growing):