Wanted: Office Coordinator

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The Office Coordinator is the glue that holds Peapod together. An important role that includes managing and coordinating day-to-day tasks such as, organizing the studio, manning the phones, coordinating meetings, ordering office supplies, plus additional administrative tasks.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to build rapport and work effectively with all studio members and clients
• Able to juggle many tasks within a short timeframe, with effective prioritization
• Positive, mature and professional, can-do attitude
• Detail oriented, self-sufficient and organized
• Must work independently with minimal supervision
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive thinker who seeks to create efficiencies within the work environment
• Intermediate knowledge of MS Office Suite

Experience

• 1-2 years experience in an office environment
• Reception and customer service experience an asset
• Basic accounting and payroll

Nice to Have

• Project management experience
• Interest in design and interactive services

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume by email to jobs@peapod.ca

Thank you for your response, only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Peapod Architecture and Design Process

When Peapod Studios begins creating a website, we’re not just simply collecting a few key pieces of information and moving directly into the build process.

There is a great deal of discovery and strategy that goes into creating the final products we deliver. We start with several sessions of discovery, where we set the basic goals and criteria we’d like the clients site to meet.

Then we develop several individualized personas of who the key users and stakeholders of the site will be. Personalizing a users experience dealing with a website is a key part of ensuring success. We develop several pathways throughout the site, for them to easily obtain the information they desire or have come for while navigating the site.

Architecture and Strategy Documentation

Architecture Document

We take all of this information and use it to develop our Architecture and Strategy document. This will serve as a resource for both our developers and the client to refer to as we move forward to the point where we can begin the preliminary site mapping and wire-framing of the eventual site build.

WireFrames

wireframe

Once we have established the web sites core functionality and layout only then can we move into creating the initial rounds of designs, a process we call skinning. Initially we like to provide the client with three distinct rounds of creative, allowing the client to have several choices in the future direction of the design.

Design Begins

first mocks

Taking the clients feedback from the intial three mockups we can begin to build out more honed designs based on their feedback. This is not a perfect science, sometimes a client will go through more than one round of creative, although sometimes we nail it from the get go.

Design Sign Off

Final Design

WIth all the elements in place, we finally have the basis for build.

The documentation we have from the preliminary steps allows the developers to work knowing the ins and outs of the final structure, and gives them an extensive library to refer to. Art direction is minimized as most of the design lives within the styles created in the skinning stage.

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Bumptop Releases Bumptop for Mac 1.0

We’re all about new tech gadgets and finding new ways to organize ourselves here at Peapod Studios. That’s why we’ve had our eyes on the development going on at Bumptop for sometime now.

Unfortunately until this week there was no option for Mac users to experience the innovative design and workflow Bumptop had created for PC desktops.

Well all that changed this week, when the fully realized Bumptop for Mac edition was released.

At first blush it’s immediately apparent Bumptop has put quite a bit of polish into its new release. It’s an absolutely gorgeous, well conceived user experience treatment of your standard desktop. It’s integration into workflow makes me believe that it was Apple itself that implemented this edition, or at least they’ll try to nab bits of it for later releases.

The basic version is free for download, and for a mere $29 you can upgrade for a more feature rich full version.

A Very Serious Upgrade

iMac Quad Core

Peapod Studios has upgraded our toolset to include Apple’s new 27 inch Quad Core iMacs. At first blush this may seem a bit like overkill, but we wanted to be able to work without the interruption of the annoying spinning beach ball ( and work on our tans all at once.)

With the addition of the 27 inch Dell 2707 as our secondary monitors, we’re working with about 5.9 MegaPixels of desktop per machine.

NERD ALERT!