One of the fun traditions we have at Slice of Lime is to play a rendition of Europe’s “The Final Countdown” every time we launch a new website for a client.
Lately, this tradition has begun to take on a life of their own as different “special guests” have created custom videos for us. In fact, The Denver Egotist actually wrote a little post on us here.
Check out our album on Vimeo to view our latest “Final Countdown” videos!
Boulder Startup Week is a 5-day event that showcases the unique startup culture of Boulder. Every day is filled with meet up groups, panel discussions, casual coffee gatherings, and great conversation. Experiencing Boulder’s wonderful hiking, biking, and sun-filled days is mixed into the schedule as well.
For 12 years, Slice of Lime has had a strong connection with startups. We built our business around understanding the needs and the pace in which startups work. Our marketing and user interface design has led to great relationships with many inspiring companies, many of them local to Boulder.
From these experiences, we’ve learned that the startup culture can have a profound effect on a region’s entrepreneurial spirit. In our time at Slice of Lime, we’ve watched Boulder become somewhat of a mecca for serious startups.These days, every other door you see on Pearl Street in Boulder is a relatively new company working hard on their idea. When you walk into a cafe, teams are huddled around computers working on a prototype or venture capital pitch. The culture of innovation and collaboration in Boulder feels similar to what it might have been like in other eras such as with the beat poets or impressionist painters.
Our love of startups has led to sponsoring several organizations through the years. To name just a few:
We’re proud to add Boulder Startup Week to our list of events and organizations that we support. Beyond continuing the dialogue around how to make your startup a success, we love that Boulder Startup Week promotes our beautiful city of Boulder. Part of the sponsorship works to fly in people from out of town. Attracting more like-minded people can only secure Boulder as a wonderful place to get your next big idea off the ground.
Check out the site and sign up for some of the events – most of them are free!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Like it or not, “error pages” (otherwise known as 404 pages), are a real part of the user experience. That’s why we make sure that when a user tries to access a page that doesn’t exist, they are still left with a positive experience that, instead of building frustration, actually works to increase brand loyalty.
An example of one of our error pages designs for Orbotix was just featured in Forbes. Thanks for noticing! You can check out the full article here.
We’re honored that our marketing website design for Sphero will be featured in the next volume of The Web Designer’s Idea Book (due out next year). The website boasts a “responsive design” which means that it adjusts its layout and font-size based on what device it’s being viewed on. We love the Orbotix (makers of Sphero) team and are proud of the recognition we’re receiving in the book!
You’ve all heard of “Teaching Hospitals.” Immediately that image of a herd of white coats with clipboards talking about symptoms as they stand over a patient’s bed comes to mind. Teaching Hospitals exist to speed up the learning curve of the collective staff by providing them with real world, hands-on experiences.
We think of Slice of Lime in much the same way. We have a company account with Amazon in which any book our staff wants is instantly ordered. Likewise, magazine subscriptions or educational courses are paid for by the company. We also subscribe to online education websites that allow us to learn, in depth, just about any topic with just a few clicks. Lastly, we encourage learning from each other throughout the workday and during our end of the week “Lime-ness” events.
We were recently invited to Facebook’s “Mobile Hack” in New York City to learn about what’s coming down the pike for applications that leverage the most popular social network. We sent a couple Slice of Limers to The Big Apple to learn from senior Facebook staff, to get hands-on experience playing with some new tools, and learn from other designers and programmers.
Experiences like this are invaluable. They are do-it-yourself, roll-up-your-sleeves, get-outside-your-comfort-zone experiences – and they make us grow as individuals and as a team. Enjoy the video above that documents our trip to the event (as well as maybe a speakeasy or two).