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We help clients communicate their vision and differentiation to current and prospective clients, partners, and investors. For each project we assemble an optimized multi-disciplinary team. Our founders and the people we work with represent many years of experience in film/video production, media technology, business strategy, experience design, communication design, and prototype development.

Since we began in 2002, we have successfully completed the following projects:

For Rule Broadcast Systems we produced a customer and employee testimonial video communicating their vision, customer loyalty, and reputation. Produced in high definition using state of the art equipment and techniques.

For Yantric, Inc. (a start-up in the surgical simulation for training space) we produced a video presented to a congressional committee in Washington as a virtual demo of their research prototype.

For the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University we developed program strategy and created curriculum materials for two new certificate programs in digital filmmaking and web and interactive media design. The school offers hands-on career-oriented certificate programs and operates under the auspice of Boston University's College of Communication.

For Orange Advanced Services Development we helped the product designers craft the user experience for a new mobile service offering.

For Ambient Devices (an MIT Media Lab spin-off) we produced a video used to train retail employees. The video explains the unique qualities of the Ambient Orb and provides selling tips and discussion of frequently asked questions.

For Orange Advanced Services Development we conducted an evaluation of streaming media technology offerings and wrote a report including recommendations for producing and delivering digital video assets within their intranet.

For an executive at Orange, we performed rapid expert evaluation of the qualitative aspects of a range of competitive mobile voice-services service offerings.

David Tamés co-authored with Ken Haase (of beingmeta) an article titled "BabelVision: Better Image Searching Through Shared Annotations," which appears in Interactions (Volume XI.2, March+April 2004, pp. 18-27).

We helped a stealth-mode start-up with a unique publishing application "partner with users in product design" by planning and running a series of "design review sessions" with users representative of their target market in order to validate product assumptions and fine-tune the feature set prior to beta product release.

For an executive at Orange, we performed a competitive analysis sifting through industry analyst reports, the client's own research, and public information, synthesizing the results in a brief report.

For Diligent (a start-up developing ASP based extended enterprise management solutions), we helped accelerate the development of their Insight product by performing functional analysis and developing detailed use cases.

We worked closely with beingmeta (an MIT Media Laboratory spin-off developing a semantic knowledge management product) on a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project to validate and help commercialize their technology. We performed a detailed scan of the competitive landscape, wrote a commercialization plan, and ran an after-school work program for Boston youths using BabelVision (beingmeta's semantic image annotation tool) in a production environment.

We sponsored, and our founders David Tamés and Hani Asfour were co-chairs of, the Second Multiples of One Conference held on November 7-8, 2003 at MIT. The conference brought together leading thinkers in design, organizational strategy, technology and law to examine the critical issues facing organizations as they transform into powerful networks of people.

For Orange we performed rapid expert evaluation of the qualitative aspects of a range of competitive mobile voice-services service offerings.

For a group at Motorola Labs, we wrote a detailed report on selected research activities at MIT relevant to specific business needs.

For an executive at Orange, we wrote a report on selected research activities at MIT specific to their business needs.

For a stealth-mode start-up we designed the user interface for a software prototype used to demonstrate the software to investors and partners.

For a knowledge management group at Merck, we designed clear visual articulations of complex ideas for their internal presentation materials.

For the Human Interface Group of Motorola Labs we developed scenarios and developed a hardware and software prototype used to demonstrate a new user interface paradigm for mobile devices. The prototype helped the research group articulate their vision to other groups within the company, creating new opportunities for collaboration within the firm.

For Cineric (a film post-production, restoration, and effects firm) we advised them on their technology transition process to optimize the timing of capital investments.

For Cineric (a film post-production, restoration, and effects firm) we conducted research for and designed a presentation on digital film restoration.

For specific information regarding any of these projects or client references, please contact us.



• Home • People > Projects • Contact us --------------------		P R O J E C T S We help clients communicate their vision and differentiation to current and prospective clients, partners, and investors. For each project we assemble an optimized multi-disciplinary team. Our founders and the people we work with represent many years of experience in film/video production, media technology, business strategy, experience design, communication design, and prototype development. Since we began in 2002, we have successfully completed the following projects: For Rule Broadcast Systems we produced a customer and employee testimonial video communicating their vision, customer loyalty, and reputation. Produced in high definition using state of the art equipment and techniques. For Yantric, Inc. (a start-up in the surgical simulation for training space) we produced a video presented to a congressional committee in Washington as a virtual demo of their research prototype. For the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University we developed program strategy and created curriculum materials for two new certificate programs in digital filmmaking and web and interactive media design. The school offers hands-on career-oriented certificate programs and operates under the auspice of Boston University's College of Communication. For Orange Advanced Services Development we helped the product designers craft the user experience for a new mobile service offering. For Ambient Devices (an MIT Media Lab spin-off) we produced a video used to train retail employees. The video explains the unique qualities of the Ambient Orb and provides selling tips and discussion of frequently asked questions. For Orange Advanced Services Development we conducted an evaluation of streaming media technology offerings and wrote a report including recommendations for producing and delivering digital video assets within their intranet. For an executive at Orange, we performed rapid expert evaluation of the qualitative aspects of a range of competitive mobile voice-services service offerings. David Tamés co-authored with Ken Haase (of beingmeta) an article titled "BabelVision: Better Image Searching Through Shared Annotations," which appears in Interactions (Volume XI.2, March+April 2004, pp. 18-27). We helped a stealth-mode start-up with a unique publishing application "partner with users in product design" by planning and running a series of "design review sessions" with users representative of their target market in order to validate product assumptions and fine-tune the feature set prior to beta product release. For an executive at Orange, we performed a competitive analysis sifting through industry analyst reports, the client's own research, and public information, synthesizing the results in a brief report. For Diligent (a start-up developing ASP based extended enterprise management solutions), we helped accelerate the development of their Insight product by performing functional analysis and developing detailed use cases. We worked closely with beingmeta (an MIT Media Laboratory spin-off developing a semantic knowledge management product) on a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project to validate and help commercialize their technology. We performed a detailed scan of the competitive landscape, wrote a commercialization plan, and ran an after-school work program for Boston youths using BabelVision (beingmeta's semantic image annotation tool) in a production environment. We sponsored, and our founders David Tamés and Hani Asfour were co-chairs of, the Second Multiples of One Conference held on November 7-8, 2003 at MIT. The conference brought together leading thinkers in design, organizational strategy, technology and law to examine the critical issues facing organizations as they transform into powerful networks of people. For Orange we performed rapid expert evaluation of the qualitative aspects of a range of competitive mobile voice-services service offerings. For a group at Motorola Labs, we wrote a detailed report on selected research activities at MIT relevant to specific business needs. For an executive at Orange, we wrote a report on selected research activities at MIT specific to their business needs. For a stealth-mode start-up we designed the user interface for a software prototype used to demonstrate the software to investors and partners. For a knowledge management group at Merck, we designed clear visual articulations of complex ideas for their internal presentation materials. For the Human Interface Group of Motorola Labs we developed scenarios and developed a hardware and software prototype used to demonstrate a new user interface paradigm for mobile devices. The prototype helped the research group articulate their vision to other groups within the company, creating new opportunities for collaboration within the firm. For Cineric (a film post-production, restoration, and effects firm) we advised them on their technology transition process to optimize the timing of capital investments. For Cineric (a film post-production, restoration, and effects firm) we conducted research for and designed a presentation on digital film restoration. For specific information regarding any of these projects or client references, please contact us.

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