Choosing a color palette for a product comes down to one specific tenet… know your audience. Age groups, roles, the type of company the audience works for, or any other demographics make a big difference in what colors will attract them and keep them engaged with the product. When Allovus began working with Simplifi by … Continue reading
What a fun way to wrap up a project! Allovus recently celebrated the work we completed with one of our favorite creative partners, PicMonkey! The team met for drinks and apps to toast to a job well done. The mission? To create fun, user friendly, distinctively designed templates. PicMonkey wanted to avoid using stock images … Continue reading
By Guest Blogger Nancy Stumvoll When Allovus began working with Synergy Sports Technology, we quickly realized that we needed a more robust prototyping tool to help with the development of their data rich applications. We began our partnership with Synergy in 2014. Their sophisticated data visualization apps allow NBA and NCAA coaches to easily access … Continue reading
What do you get when you cross a bartender with a musician and a world traveler? A kickass infographic designer! No, really. It’s true. And we have proof. Creating an infographic requires taking large amounts of data and synthesizing it into visual bites that are easy to digest. Not an easy task. Allovus was looking … Continue reading
Happy Holidays from Allovus! May your year be filled with wonderful user experiences. Card design by Robert Massa Continue reading
It’s become a tradition for Allovus Principal and Founder Hayley Nichols to give special bottles of wine to her holiday party guests and to Allovus clients. This year was no exception. We thought it would be fun to show how the wine bottle art is done—from start to finish. Designed by Allovus Illustrator Robert Massa, … Continue reading
Allovus has recently been awarded the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) certification. It’s a huge honor—and a difficult distinction to achieve. The WBENC, a national 501(c)(3) non-profit, partners with 14 Regional Partner Organizations to provide its world class standard of certification to women-owned businesses throughout the country. WBENC is the nation’s leading advocate of women-owned … Continue reading
Seattle Business magazine honored its 100 Best Companies to Work For at an awards dinner on June 17, 2014, at The Westin Seattle. The winners, hailing from 18 cities across the state of Washington, were chosen based on extensive surveys completed by nearly 10,000 employees. Allovus is excited to share the amazing news—we have been voted #7 in … Continue reading
You could say Allovus got its start in a virtual garage. Like many start-ups, Hayley Nichols, founder and principal, began five years ago with an idea, a project request, and a handful of workers toiling away in their virtual spaces. Shift ahead to today and the virtual has become a reality with a studio space, 63+ employees working with a … Continue reading
Symbols are the most direct way to communicate without words. Where did the heart shape come from? Most people would agree that it does not really resemble the shape of the actual human heart. There are varying theories about the origins of the heart image. Some theorize that the shape comes from seed of the silphium … Continue reading
Allovus sweats the small stuff, especially pixels. Our Icon Team recently created an unique set of 750+ icons for Windows Phone, OS, Window Live, and Mobile called “Emoji,” named for the Japanese term for the picture characters of emoticons used in Japanese electronic messages. We collaborated with the Windows product group to deliver the complexity … Continue reading
Allovus staffed an onsite team of project managers and designers to help Windermere reinvent their online identity. The goal was to blend their emerging social media presence and enhance the functionality and navigation across all form factors and devices. The refreshed design transformed searches, analysis, and comparable diagnostics for over a million visitors a month. Continue reading