Good Dog Design

We just launched a refreshed site for ShuffleBrain. ShuffleBrain makes engaging smart games for social networks. We've been been really honored to know and work with the founders, Amy Jo and Scott Kim. Amy, (CEO and social architect) is an internationally known expert in online social architecture, and Scott, (CFO and game designer) is one of the world’s most prolific and versatile puzzle designers.

Their first game, Photograb (available now on Facebook) turns your photos into brain-boosting visual puzzles. The team has done an amazing job tweaking and refining the game play to create an extremely simple and engaging social game.

In case you're interested, here's a screenshot of their old site that we built out a few years ago. You'll see some of the basic design elements that we refined and expanded to develop the new site.

We just launched a new website for Venture Pay Group. We met the managing director, Lis Fuchs via our work together on the Kiddo! website. I really appreciate her incredible efforts as an officer on the Kiddo! board.

Mike and Lis run an boutique management consulting firm that specializes in the financial services industry. The firm has an impressive list of clients, and I would highly recommend getting in contact if you need any of their services. It was a pleasure to work with such pro's, and we always enjoy it when our client is right here in Mill Valley.

Recently dmg Radio was looking for a way to innovate their image galleries for all of the Nova Stations in Australia.  They wanted a system that would easily allow users to submit photos and an admin system to distribute the galleries almost instantly. They wanted to be able to attach galleries to particular radio shows, to be able to track data, and for everything to work seamlessly with their own websites (ad content, commenting, etc)

 

In less than two weeks we developed and launched a Ruby On Rails based application that handles photo content via email.  Users simply email in their photos (each station has its own unique email address).  The photos are then automatically resized with the gallery title set by the email subject, and descriptive text pulled from the email as well. The application also allows admins to bulk upload photos from their desktop as .zip files.

 

Station admins are alerted to incoming galleries and can either publish the galleries as they are or use the custom built CMS to control the images. Admins can tag photos, delete, send them to other galleries, add gallleries to specific shows and more.

 

Listeners of the stations can also MMS images directly to the Gallery application as well.  What used to be a very time consuming affair can now be completed in a matter of minutes.

Alibris recently launched their new Sellers Hub. We worked with the amazing team at Alibris to design a new site that promotes key Seller hub benefits to professional and casual book sellers. The Good Dog team was responsible for the overall design and execution of the hub, and we oversaw the content development and integration.

Albris had a great deal of useful content for sellers, but was looking to streamline access to their content and improve its presentation. We focused on the needs of each prospective seller, and created a clean, contemporary design to clarify the overall messaging to sellers.

The Albris team helped define what information sellers need to make informed decisions, and ultimately we decided to divide marketing content into unique messages for each audience. So if you’re a Professional Book Seller, Sell Movies or Music, or just looking quickly sell a few old books, check out the new Alibris Sellers Hub. 

This week we launched NetDockets - a legal document search tool for chapter 11 filings. NetDockets isn't the first in the legal document search space, but we think its the first that really cares about usability. Searching for either a specific case or searching across multiple cases is a snap, with plenty more options available at your fingertips.

 

Ruby on Rails was an ideal fit for this project and a perfect choice for us as it allowed us to prototype rapidly and get feedback early from actual users. The main challenge was making the intelligent search interface work intelligently in older browsers such as IE6.

 

NetDockets' database currently contains 255 cases comprising roughly 855,000 documents. Go check out the latest and (we think) greatest legal document search out there. Your first $100 of searches is free!