Fuzzy Math now 25%* bigger AND better!

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Ben

For Fuzzy Math’s first 17 months, Jason, Mark, and Ben were the only full-time Fuzzy Mathers. That changed last August when Brett came aboard with his UX chops and front-end expertise. While the last seven months have been some of FM’s best, the four of us recently decided it was time for a fifth (and we have been eyeing some local pickup hoops games**).

We are pleased to announce the addition of Nick Leonard as the fifth full-timer at Fuzzy Math. Nick comes to Fuzzy Math via Iowa, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon, and Parts Unknown. He will be around shortly to introduce himself, so I all I have left to say is welcome aboard, Nick!

* Thanks to Ben Protas for clarifying the whole math thing for us when we hired Brett.

** When we do play some hoops, this is our new starting lineup:
PG – Brett
SG – Ben
SF – Mark
PF – Nick
C – Jason

EDIT: The original title had “20%” instead of “25%”, and within minutes (literally), Ben Protas posted a correction in the comments. I really thought I had it right this time :(

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Look out, it’s a Pixel Party!

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Jason

Our friend Shawn Hampton makes wonderful stuff and sells it on etsy.com.

Here’s some of his awesome work adorning the wall in Fuzzy Math’s world HQ:

PixelParty's Pac-man and Ghosts on the wall at Fuzzy MathI’ll post some pictures of some of the other funny stuff we’ve been bringing into the office to jazz it up. Send us something fun and cool and we’ll hang it up and put up a post about it!

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Chartwell: an awesome data viz font by TK TYPE!

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Jason

I am loving the idea of this font for data visualization known as Chartwell. Now we just need a new Fuzzy Math data-driven design project to use it on!

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Patient Portal Design for Rush University Medical Center

Posted on February 25, 2011 by christa

Fuzzy Math was approached by Rush University Medical Center to design their new patient portal site to accompany their existing rush.edu hospital site. We’ve worked on similar health-related patient portals in the past including Microsoft Health Solutions Group’s HealthVault Community Connect and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s award-winning MyNYP.org. The experience and success gained from these previous undertakings gave Rush confidence that we will create a highly pleasant, consistent, and usable experience for their cherished patients.

The ultimate goal of the project is to provide an excellent web experience for Rush patients and make the Rush experience transcend beyond the walls of the hospital.  The site will host an abundance of health information and interactive tools from ADAM, it will be based on the SharePoint platform to allow for personalization of content, and it will provide patients with electronic personal health records (PHR) through the use of EPIC MyChart.

We began our process with a user experience site review on Rush’s existing site and content, transactional feed providers, and competitor sites to generate specific ideas on how to bridge the look, feel, and experience of rush.edu and the yet-to-be-designed patient portal. We analyzed existing content and site structure of rush.edu and third party solution partners (MyChart and ADAM) in order to generate a set of site maps and process flows for MyRush. Our next step involved iteration over a series of wireframes of key pages on the site.

Currently, high-fidelity color graphic design compositions are being created from the approved wireframes and modules. The compositions are based on one of the two brand board options approved by Rush and their branding team. Our final step is to provide Rush with HTML/CSS/AJAX web page templates for each of the graphic design compositions.

Things are looking great so far. We believe we have overcome the design challenges and are well on our way to delivering Rush a successful, compatible, and super-awesome product.

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You go, Ed! iPhone GPS busts muggers

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Jason

Displaying the quick thinking required of a startup entrepreneur, Mr. Scanlan foils some would-be robbers.

Now, stay out of those alleys, Ed. Logan Square may be thick with hipsters, but feeling gall at their affectations is the least of the dangers in the ‘hood!

iPhone theft suspects tripped up by GPS app – Chicago Sun-Times.

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Delegate or die: the self-employed trap. | Derek Sivers

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Jason

Some great insights on scaling your business from Derek Sivers of CD baby fame. Now, who can I find to write that manual…

Delegate or die: the self-employed trap. | Derek Sivers.

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HTML5 now has a (sweet) logo

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Brett

Not only is the new logo pretty awesome, but the site where you can learn/download/badge build is pretty nifty as well.
Continue reading →

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Words of Wisdom from Stefan Sagmeister

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Jason

Sagmeister is an awesome designer of album covers with a rich history in design and typography. Aside from having a generally cool site, he offers some words of wisdom about running a design agency.

We are going to scale in 2011. It keeps us up at night. After 4 years of running a UX studio we believe we have a good handle on how to work with clients and provide them with good design work. We have a lot of demand for doing this work, as user experience becomes a more established discipline. Now we have to figure out how to do it in such a way that our growth is organic, slow and appropriate culturally.

I’ve been reading a lot on corporate culture (snooze fest though it can be, I know) lately. I’ll be sharing some of the cooler books, articles and ideas here in 2011.

Happy New Year!

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Great overview of HTML5 b, em, i, strong tags

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Jason

These tags have all been given semantic meaning, since their use is so prevalent. Thank goodness! The HTML Doctor has a great overview on intended usage.

I always felt so silly explaining to students not to use them.

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Bounce rates & happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Jason

“Bounce rate” is a web industry term for the rate at which people ditch from your site to another site. Maybe they even close their browser, shut down their computer, and weep at the horror that was your web page as it dances across their eyes.

In any event, Think Vitamin has a great new article up featuring Kissmetric’s “Bounce Rate Demystified” infographic. It is the hotness in visual explanations for this short week prior to eating turkeys, being thankful and shopping to excess.

Enjoy! w00t!

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