Secret Lakes of Southern Vancouver Island is a non-fiction guidebook published in June of 2012 by Ungstad Information Architects. Writing a book is by no means a small project, and involves the input of many different experts – exactly the kind of project we are best at. Adam Ungstad researched and wrote the book between […]
Adam Ungstad was lucky enough to speak at the Information Architecture Summit in New Orleans 2012, tackling the subject of metadata. Slides from the presentation are presented below, and the original session description follows: Metadata provides a foundation for the cross-channel experiences we consume in the dawn of the 21st century by enabling consistency, context […]
In order to build trust with potential clients Arbutus Cove Construction made it a priority to showcase the scale and quality of projects they had completed for previous clients. The result is a website showing their work through a selection of tools including flash sliders, 360 degree virtual tours, youtube videos and impressive photographs. Portfolios […]
From the beginning I was attracted to WordPress as a platform for development not only for it’s ease of use but also for the grassroots community that surrounded it. I attended WordCamp Victoria in January of 2011 and was glad to be able to contribute to the 2012 edition with easy ways to improve […]
Throughout the later half of 2009 I was lucky enough to be a part of the team that created the Province of British Columbia’s first “blogs .” It was an exciting endeavour – it meant using an open-source platform, WordPress, for the first time, and commenting enabled a new tool for citizen engagement, in this case […]
The TimeTracker is a system I built that tracks time spent on projects for a team. Staff fill out timesheets stating which projects, work packages and tasks they spent their time doing. The system has reports for management and staff. Staff can also assign notes to a task, book vacations, manage team members, and view […]