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Nerdery Development Project for Hunger Games Wins a Webby

It was recently announced that the Hunger Games: Capitol Tour website was awarded with a Webby in the Movie & Films category. It beat out some big competition by going head-to-head with interactive websites the likes of Wreck-It Ralph, Frankenweenie, ParaNorman, and others. Ignition Interactive was the Agency leading the project and The Nerdery provided development talent on a project that inspired developers and won over the Webby Awards.

When first released the Capitol Tour received media coverage in praise of the cutting-edge use of HTML5 technology and the partnership with Microsoft in promotion of Internet Explorer 9.

The Project:

Curious about what the Hunger Games: Capitol Tour was all about? Check out the behind the scenes tour about the project.

NerdCast #7: Launching Successful Agency-Partner Projects Under Pressure

In this special Valentine’s Day edition of the NerdCast, we share strategies with our agency partners on how to help their next rush interactive project flow smoothly. With perspectives from our sales, project management and front-end development Nerds we explore what makes rush projects successful contrasted with common mistakes.

Have a pressing project? Need to start immediately? We’re ready.

Host: Ryan Carlson / Guests: Eve Poeschl (Solutions Engineer), Charlie Kandiko (Project Management), and Jason Dicks (Front End Developer)

Relevant Follow-Up Blog Post: Tips & Tricks: Creating Efficiencies For Your Development Projects

Listen Now:
Running Time: 0:34:39 / Subscribe on iTunes

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Favorite mobile site of the day

We were pleased as punch to see Eat Like That Guy You Know, a Wieden + Kennedy project we helped out with was named Favorite mobile site of the day by FWA. Sweet!

Nerdery Partners LBVD’s website is Communication Arts’ Web Pick of the Day

Mad props go out to Nerdery Partner Lawler Ballard Van Durand (LBVD) whose new website was chosen by Communication Arts as today’s Web Pick.

The site was built using WordPress and HTML. If you want to get the inside scoop on this project & LBVD’s objectives, take a look at the Project Case Study. The site was also featured on Cool Home Pages.

Props from ±rad32 on Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition Official Website

Like Matt, aka @the_nerdery, said “How could we say no to ±rad32 when they asked us to help develop a site for the MythBusters,” especially when they wrote such nice things about us:

“So in true MythBuster spirit, we did our homework to make sure we could pull off the experiment. Just as the MythBusters turn to professional explosives experts, academics and stunt people for help, when it came to developers, we turned to the best in the business—the Nerdery. Together, we put on our safety goggles and jumped in with both feet, immersing ourselves in the wild, wacky world of Adam, Jamie, Kari, Grant and Tory and their adventures in debunking popular myths in the name of science.”

Read the entire post to learn more about the project and get links to see the official website.

Intro to User Research Recap

Sevnthsin garners Webby honor for JCPenney Weekly Deals mobile ap

A boatload of congratulations and mad props to our pals at Sevnthsin whose JCPenney Weekly Deals mobile apps were named an official honoree for the 2011 Webby Awards! Being an honoree is quite the achievement. Of the 8000 submissions to the Webby Awards fewer than 15% are recognized with the Official Honoree designation.

Also, we have to thank them for the shout out. We’re happy we could help them on their way to nabbing such a great honor.

Facebook webinar: Go see it

“The Social Network” beat our Facebook webinar at the box office last week – it really wasn’t even close. The flick also jumped out to an early lead in terms of Oscar buzz, but time will tell. Either way, our Facebook webinar accomplished exactly what all our monthly agency primers set out to do. Below, you’ll find slides of our presentation, along with a bootleg video of Facebook 2: Electric Boogaloo. Go see it.

Facebook Webinar from The Nerdery on Vimeo.

Slides

The tabs on Facebook they are a-changin’

Facebook is reducing the width of custom profile tabs to 520 pixels (down from 760). If you’ve created a custom tab (think landing page of a Facebook app) it’s gonna get 32% slimmer next week.

Imagine if someone came along and lopped off “are a-changin’” from the headline of this post. Bob Dylan and I would be pissed about losing context and leaving you hanging like that. Now, picture that Facebook tab you so lovingly designed, and imagine watching helplessly as that awful Leatherface severed it by one-third with his chainsaw. How does it feel?

Words and images, if not cut off, may be scrambled instead. Clickable links might lose their interactivity. Scary stuff.

Obviously, from here forward we’re building within the 520 frame, and we’re ready to help you adjust existing Facebook tabs – whether we developed the original or not. So fear not, agency partners and clients. The Nerdery will protect you from Leatherface.

Agency Primer Notes: Designing for web workflow webinar recap

Whether you missed our last webinar or just want to relive it, here’s the video and presentation deck from our “Designing for Web Workflow” agency primer – as well as a few extra recommended links from designers/presenters Karsten and Matt.

Designing for web workflow from The Nerdery on Vimeo.

Additional resources:

960 Grid System
http://960.gs/

cufón
http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/

Typekit
http://typekit.com/

Google Font Directory
http://code.google.com/webfonts

sIFR
http://novemberborn.net/sifr3