Monthly Archives: March 2009

Palm’s Secret Weapon for the Pre

 

A dearth of competing high-profile announcements in the runup to the announcement of the Pre and its software also benefited Palm. Apple had no smartphone news at the Macworld show, held in January. And of the thousands of product announcements … Continue reading →

 

Digital Five Partners with Artefact to Deliver New Mobile Products in Malaysia

 

SEATTLE, WA – (Marketwire – March 24, 2009) – Realizing the importance of delivering a world-class user experience, Digital Five, a subsidiary of Astro All Asia Networks (AAAN), selected Artefact Group, a Seattle-based design consultancy, as its newest global partner. … Continue reading →

 

Kateryna Sitner

 

Kateryna has worked with various businesses and design agencies for clients like Ford, Tom’s of Maine and Microsoft. Her skills come from a dynamic education, cross-cultural experience and invigorating collaboration within the design community. When exploring a project she likes … Continue reading →

 

Katrina Mendoza

 

Katrina joined Artefact after graduating with a BFA in Visual Communication Design in 2008 from the University of Washington. With a minimalist approach to design and a penchant for negative space, good typography, and asymmetrical compositions, she works to help … Continue reading →

 

Artefact Expands its Creative and Visual Design Team and Capabilities with Strategic Hires

 

SEATTLE, WA – (Marketwire – March 17, 2009) – Artefact, a Seattle-based design consultancy, today announced that it has added two new staff members, Issara Willenskomer and Katrina Mendoza to its design team Issara joins the company as creative director. … Continue reading →

 

Understanding How Urban South African Youth Socialize Via Mobile Phones

 

Socializing via mobile phones is widespread amongst South African urban youth. Prior research has focused on the devices themselves, from feature comparisons to usage rates. Our approach was to uncover business and design opportunities for our client’s next generation of … Continue reading →

 

The Wall: A Next Generation Retail Experience

 

For those of you who have been following our next generation retail project, here’s an exciting update! After completing our research that helped us identify insights and painpoints with current retail experiences, we developed a solution that illustrates what the … Continue reading →

 

The Wall: A Next Generation Retail Experience

 

The Wall is an interactive life-sized display that brings online capabilities into the store and onto products. Customers can place physical products against The Wall display and interact with related content aggregated from multiple online sources such as product info, … Continue reading →

 

How to Film Customer Insights: Camera Operator

 

Digital still and motion imaging has come a long way. As technology continues to grant us the luxury of shooting in the dark, record events unseen like a ninja and render them with emotive qualities, it’s becoming easier for researchers … Continue reading →

 

A Future Retail Shopping Experience

 

If you haven’t already been checkin’ up on us, then you might have missed a couple of updates on how things are doing with our internal project focusing on retail shopping experiences. We’ve wrapped up our research and concepting and … Continue reading →