The holidays are seemingly the busiest time of the year, both professionally and personally. Not only are we trying to find the perfect gifts while scheduling holiday parties and arranging travel plans to
By Propane - January 3, 2014
One of my favorite parts about Luke Wroblewski’s workshop at this year’s An Event Apart conference in San Francisco was the demonstration of some of his recent work with Windows 8.
By Propane - December 20, 2013
We recently took a day to focus on innovation, striving to remove barriers for creativity and strengthening our team.Cool right? Just like “Color Days” in grade school, we broke our regular routine
By Propane - December 12, 2013
We as humans have a natural tendency to feel uneasy when matters are out of our control. As consumers digest more and more disparate pieces of information on the Internet, they become frustrated
By Propane - December 9, 2013
“The image of the world around us, which we carry in our head, is just a model. Nobody in his head imagines all the world, government or country. He has only selected concepts,
By Propane - November 21, 2013
One of the hardest tasks for a design agency to accomplish, is their own internal branding. It’s easy to get swept away with client work and neglect the interior landscape. Client facing
By Propane - November 11, 2013
It’s no secret that Amazon has led the pack in online shopping innovation through free and quick shipping, one-click checkout and sweeping consumer reviews. Not impervious to competition, however, even Amazon is
By Propane - November 5, 2013
Visual designers walk a careful line between showing people what they expect, and showing them something that has never been done before. When digital products were in their infancy, only a small amount
By Propane - October 25, 2013
As smartphones take over the world and the impact of mobile seeps into every conference room, content creators are feeling the heat. Fortunately, the idea of prepping for the mobile revolution isn’t
By Propane - October 22, 2013
I spend my days working as a project manager (and manager of project managers) for web and mobile applications, sites, and other digital deliverables. I spend my evenings and weekends as a martial
By Propane - October 18, 2013
Everywhere you look, across every sector data is being used but is often underutilized. We call this Dumb Data.While many industries have mastered the ability to leverage data, the retail sector is
By Propane - October 17, 2013
People expect to live in a seamlessly connected world, and automakers have been challenged to create information and entertainment systems that help drivers stay connected while avoiding distractions.We constantly hear messages about
By Propane - October 16, 2013
In the world in product development, you have to expect the unexpected. Change is constant. And not little change, but gut wrenching left turns that no one saw coming. How do we deal
By Propane - October 11, 2013
People tend to underestimate brilliant strategies for a number of reasons – they seem too simple, or it’s something that “just happened” and couldn’t have been planned. Strategic genius is even harder
By Propane - October 9, 2013
For the Android user, value has always been defined by numbers and hard facts, like processor speed and screen size, but rarely on the less tangible aspects that make up the experience of
By Propane - September 23, 2013
Something that Rodney mentioned in the above TED Talk video really resonated with both the skateboarder and the strategist in me – when describing his arsenal of tricks, he called them his content. It
By Propane - September 19, 2013
Gone are the days when brands could simply broadcast their messages to the masses. The power brands that broadcast without first understanding the one-to-one relationships will encounter a minefield filled with consumer voices
By Propane - July 19, 2013
When Google started talking about the Google Glass Explorer program on Twitter, I didn’t give it too much attention. Being someone who has never had too much luck with these kinds of
By Propane - July 18, 2013
As healthcare is about to undergo a drastic change, Kaiser Permanente, in partnership with Propane has launched a new healthcare reform website to help you go from healthcare reform overload, to digestible and
By Propane - March 19, 2013
Propane has switched out its full service spectrum to 3 core areas. Brand Identity, Interactive, and Mobile. All practice areas will have strategy, design, and development/production services to better support our clients.
By Propane - November 10, 2012