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posted 02/16/08 by Rick Webb

We’ve always been passionate about user interface design, from day one. Keith
Keith Butters
Keith Butters

Co-founder, ECD : New York

topics: Design, Flash, Automotive, Rock and Roll, and Creativity

, especially, was a renowned user interface designer, even before this company got off the ground. Robert
Robert Hodgin
Robert Hodgin

Co-founder, ECD : San Francisco

topics: Visualizers, Barbarian History, Art Direction, Processing, and Design

as well – the two of them making some fascinating, pioneering user interfaces in their Arnold days for projects like Turbonium and Microbus.
We face a series of interesting challenges in User Interface, chiefly owing to two things: the diversity of our project types, and the two development methodologies we use as appropriate, water-falling and scrum. Our user interface design approach is obviously different for something like the Escape the Paparazzi game or the Subservient Chicken than it is for something like Kashi. Then, of course, there’s traditional user interface design, where we whip up some wireframes and sitemap in advance, and then everyone works to build that, versus the very interesting and developing field of having the user interface designers be a part of the scrum development team, iterating and adapting along with the rest of the team.
Top-level, though, regardless of the project or methodology, we believe that User Interface Design is a vital discipline, as important as the creative of the tech. In recent years, we’ve taken a much more methodical and disciplined approach to user interface, when the situation warrants it. User Interface is its own department now at the Barbarian Group, lead by Justin Baum
Justin Baum
Justin Baum

User Experience Head : San Francisco

topics: Strategy, Internet Culture, Automotive, User Interface, and Rock and Roll

, on par with Technical and Creative.
Lucky, Justin’s a prolific blogger, so I’ll let him take this topic over after launch!

Here are some recent posts from our employees about User Interface:

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posted by Nat Wales
Nat Wales
Nat Wales

Art Director : Boston

topics: Creativity, Banners and Rich Media, Flash, Animation and 3D, and Automotive

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Adobe Photoshop Express

posted by Rick Webb
Rick Webb
Rick Webb

Co-founder, COO : Boston

topics: The Internet, Barbarian Style Guide, Brands, Media Planning, and Strategy

 on March 27, 2008 at 02:06 PM
filed under: User Interface

We’ve had our heads down for a while working on some SERIOUS BUSINESS, as well a new website, for a while now, but one of the projects we’ve been working on for months now made a debut on the internet today and we thought we should poke our heads up and let you know.

Today Adobe launched Photoshop Express an online, web app version of the venerable Photoshop. Except it’s cooler than that. Like it does more. Online stuff. Galleries. Hosting. Sharing. That sort of thing.

We’ve been working with Adobe on this for months now, and there’s more to come, but this marks the auspicious beginning of an extended friendship. Congratulations, Adobe, on your launch and thank you for being such a good partner.

And feel free to become a fan of this fine product on Facebook! The app is integrated with your facebook photos and can edit and stick them back in your album, which is seriously hot.

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