Tag: Happy Cog™

  • Happy Cog and Airbag merge

    Happy Cog and Airbag merge

    Happy Cog™ and Airbag Industries, two leading and influential web design firms, announce that they are merging, effective today, August 3, 2009. The resulting super-agency will be called Happy Cog, and will maintain studios in…

  • The Amanda Project

    The Amanda Project

    Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a media social network, writing project, and book series combined.

  • Brighter Planet beta

    Brighter Planet beta

    The Happy Cog-designed social network for Brighter Planet is now in public beta. Come on down, kick the tires, and hang out with like-minded people.

  • Buy Books for Kids

    Buy Books for Kids

    Place your $20 bet and help us buy a truckload of new books for poor kids.

  • Happy Cog is hiring: designer wanted

    Happy Cog is hiring: designer wanted

    Are you the designer we seek?

  • Jason Has Left the Building

    Jason Has Left the Building

    Beginnings and endings.

  • Cognition

    Cognition

    Two brilliant user experience pros join Happy Cog Studios.

  • Housing Works launch

    Housing Works launch

    Sometimes we get to participate, in however small a way, in something much larger and more important than ourselves.

  • Mental models. Yipes! Stripes!

    Mental models. Yipes! Stripes!

    In Issue No. 267 of A LIST APART, For People Who make Websites, Mental Models author Indi Young tells how to get out of your own way and hear what your users are telling you…

  • Books-a-Million

    Books-a-Million

    Pssst. New Happy Cog Studios design. Books-A-Million Online Bookstore. It looks even better when you start using it. Details soon at happycog.com.

  • Pick a Panel

    Pick a Panel

    The SXSW panel picker launched today. SXSW Interactive is probably the world’s biggest web shebang, and the panel picker is how the festival begins winnowing out which panels, out of hundreds submitted, will actually be…

  • Office Koan No. 37

    Office Koan No. 37

    Speakeasy will only honor my request to discontinue DSL service in my old office if I call the company from my old phone number, which I no longer have access to because I moved out.

  • Life Needs a Rewind Button

    Life Needs a Rewind Button

    The new office is so new to me that I entered the address incorrectly while ordering CS3 suites for the studio. Amazon is consequently rush-delivering Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, and Fireworks to…

  • What happened here

    What happened here

    This gently declining space that has been nothing but an office since December and will soon be nothing at all to me, this place I will empty and vacate in the next few hours, has…

  • Hope is the daughter of dawn

    Hope is the daughter of dawn

    Awake at 4:30 AM at the end of a four-day heat wave. Sweating, but not from the weather. Running a business during a recession gets you out of bed with the chickens. I have always…