Nik Software Identity

Nik Software is an independent software vendor. It develops, publishes, and distributes software for the professional and hobbyist markets. Nik approached us originally to help them develop the interface for a mass consumer audience photo application to retouch digital snapshots.…

Hierarchical Photo Tagging

In 2005, DDO designed a sophisticated photo tagging and search interface for a consumer photography product. Our design included advanced concepts like hierarchical tags and Boolean operators, but still enabled users to tag and search their photos in intuitive ways.…

Kazeon Branding

Kazeon, headquartered in Mountain View, California, sells information appliances to help enterprises manage unstructured data. Kazeon’s information appliance—the Kazeon Information Server—brings together advances in search, classification, and storage management technology to provide enterprises with a common view of their data.

Validus Medical Forms Ordering System

Validus designs software systems for hospitals to incorporate Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) into their hospital-wide information system networks. Validus’ product is aimed at optimizing aspects of hospital workflow around in-patient order entry.

A primary product focus is to make physicians…

UCLA Library Search

UCLA Libraries engaged Dubberly Design Office to evaluate its new catalog search interface and to recommend improvements. The project consisted of two parts: how the existing system may be improved in the short-term, and how the system—and related services, might…

How Organizations Track Customers

Increasingly, organizations are focusing on understanding their customers to increase customer satisfaction and to maximize lifetime customer value. Insights gleaned from observing customers can drive product improvement, loyalty, word-of-mouth referrals and cross- and upselling.

Ixio QShift Identity

Ixio, headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, redefines the way that attorneys create documents—the practice at the heart of the legal profession. With Ixio QShift, attorneys create models from current documents, store commentary in the models, and create new legal documents from…