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Protect The Human is project for Amnesty International UK that we have
been working on for the past few months in collaboration with our design and
strategy partners up in London Made by Many.
This is a site about activism: the small things people can do which
collectively create interest for others and effect change on important issues.
Users are prompted to take various actions at every opportunity, depending on
the time they have available. Examples of actions can be signing online
petitions for the victims of Human rights abuses, attending protests, or
simply sending great content to friends to help spread the word. This aspect
of the site has been a real eye opener, We have never before seen so many
opportunities to take proactive action on such important issues in such an
accessible way.
Tourdust is a website for independent tour operators to advertise their
diverse and interesting experiences for free. It is centered around the kind
of activities which the packaged holidays don't offer; the real gems which lie
slightly off the beaten track. Many of the people who run these tours have
little access to a global audience, and building and promoting their own
websites is often a problem.
We hope people will agree that the design is fantastic, it was produced by our
long term Brighton pals Clearleft.
The first web site of its kind, Edenbee utilises the social networking model
to empower end users to reduce their carbon emissions. Via the web site,
Edenbees calculate their carbon footprint and then collaborate with other
Edenbees about practical ways to reduce their emissions. Goals are then set by
individuals, or by Edenbee, who also track progress and can send email
reminders to keep users on target.
A technically complex carbon calculator forms the heart of the web site, based
on the AMEE* API, which is recognised as the gold standard of carbon
calculators. AMEE is utilised by the British government for its Act on CO2
initiative.
The creative side was handled by our Brighton pals Clearleft.
Scholastic sell books for teachers and children to many schools in the United
Kingdom, as well as abroad. We were tasked with the redevelopment of their
Teacher's Shop before the start of the school year.
Working with Clearleft as the frontend designers and information
architects, we created the backend for it in Rails. The project was
particularly challenging because of the necessary use of a database migrated
from their internal legacy system.
Visit teachershop.scholastic.co.uk »
We were tasked with creating the backend system for a free social classifieds
website to cover a number of countries in South America.
We worked closely with Clearleft and the client in the discovery phase
to produce a plan for the system that would be of most use to the site's
consumers. The application was developed ina a matter of months and
successfully launched in Jamaica, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Brasil over the
course of several weeks. The number of people signing up to the site and
posting adverts was, and still is, extremely high.