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What a Website Looks Like Before it is Born

Before the painful miracle of web birth is the equally painful planning stage. The Hop Studios whiteboard now shows the fragile prenatal form of the Film Radar site. Most of you who work in web design will find this cute, and be able to pick out its stubby, half-formed navigation. For the…

UBC Journalism Tells a New Story

The graduate journalism program at UBC needed a website overhaul; their site was stale and hard to update. They also happen to be a bike ride’s distance from Hop Studios world headquarters. How could we say no?

We moved them to a new server, installed ExpressionEngine, redesigned their…

Get Reviewed in the Web Workshop on Lab with Leo

I’ve appeared on the G4 Tech TV show The Lab with Leo several times this summer and fall, and now I’m a fairly regular guest in the Web Workshop segment. It has really been fun to do the show, it’s such a different energy than Hop Studios and it’s fun to go and get the makeup on and talk…

Planning Means Mixed Media

Site planning on the new Hop Studios site continues. A long discussion about project categories resulted in this post-it note monstrosity. It may look like a mess but it resulted in a much cleaner category list and come clever ideas about how to present ourselves. Notice the Hop Studios…

Hop Planning

In an effort to shed some light on the inner workings of Hop Studios, We have decided make public one of our secret tools - the office white board. This week’s edition is loaded with planning for the Hop Studios website redesign.