As part of a contest running during the month of May 2010, George Stroumboulopoulos would be inviting viewers of his show, The Hour, to pick their favourite places in Canada and submit them to this site. The site featured extensive use of Google Maps API (including Local Search and geo-positioning), as well as intensive filtering functions, search, comment systems, image uploading, and state management.

As my first iPhone design, this project introduced me to the challenges of designing for a small screen and following Apple's HIG while still providing a unique experience.
Icon designed by the talented Sean Martell

Creating a layer upon a framework developed by another agency, we created a unique experience for Canadian SPARQ customers. Featuring popular athletes and with extensive use of custom video drill tutorials, a less-product focused training site was built for multiple languages.

The entire Guide was developed as components within a larger MVC-based framework.

This particular "Looks" microsite is actually one of four delivered during a branding exercise that focused on using guidance tools as a means to promote products while giving helpful information. Architecturally, the entire application is based on XML. All positioning, colours, fonts, images, and text are defined in custom XML files to give the client customization capabilities at a very granular level.

In an effort to continuously provide content to it's tigED program, TakingITGlobal decided to create a game that would help teach it students to recognize the flags of the world. As the student takes more time to think about their answer, they are granted clues about that country in the form of facts or maps.

TakingITGlobal needed a game for their tigED tool that led students through the events of the Ukrainian Orange Revolution (in late 2004). The game/simulation actually allows the students to make choices for each party and discover the repercussions of their actions.

This application was designed to help the average user choose a digital camera based on their needs (regardless of their understanding of the technologies). The web version was actually the secondary deployment scheme. The first was in most Wal-Mart stores across Canada and was deployed as a touch-screen kiosk inside the Electronics Department. Both versions are using the same code-base and only vary in loading methods and a few kiosk specific features (the kiosks have a platform for managing price information and inventory tracking).

Redesigned and redeveloped from scratch, this new site was created with the simplest combination of HTML, CSS, and Javascript to meet the target audience's browser requirements.

This application feeds in images that were submitted to PeaceTile's Flickr site and allows users to use the images to create a mural. The image can then be saved to the server and sent as part of an email or eCard.

The Explore application allowed TakingITGlobal to showcase a wide range of statistics (from HIV Prevalence to Primary School Enrolment) on a dynamic global map. Users could also check out each country individually to view information such as population, capital, and languages spoken. The application made extensive use of Flash 7's V2 components as well as feeding all data via XML (which provided support for a number of languages).

This game was created for TakingITGlobal.org to help educate people on the Millennium Development Goals. It is a card matching game mixed with quizzes about the individual goals. The game's design and content were created by the great team at TIG.