Slice of Lime Opens Denver Office at Galvanize!

We’re excited to announce that Slice of Lime now has a Denver office! As of December of 2012, we’ve added six desks within the new Galvanize co-working space. What’s a co-working space, you ask? Here’s a description from Galvanize:

Galvanize creates an “innovation ecosystem” designed to give entrepreneurs and innovators the best chance of success at the start of their next (or first) big thing. Through the three pillars of Capital, Community, and Curriculum, Galvanize builds a community greater than the sum of its parts to spark disruptive ideas and breakout companies.

This is a perfect environment for Slice of Lime. We love working with startups and have a lot we can offer the Galvanize community with our expertise in marketing websites and UX/UI for web apps and mobile apps. Additionally, Galvanize has become a hub of activity for all business activities, from startups to enterprises, in Denver.

We have already integrated ourselves into the culture in a variety of ways:

  1. We’ve been helping build out the gSchool website, which is a school within Galvanize that teaches Ruby on Rails, User Experience, and Mobile classes.
  2. We sponsored and built the website for Starter House. This was Galvanize’s presence at SXSW which served as a hub for innovators to meet, recharge, and celebrate.
  3. We’ve begun a live UX webinar series, open to the public, within the Galvanize space. The schedule of those events can be found here.
  4. We host UX office hours at Galvanize for people to get quick advice on their work in progress.

We’ll continue to find ways to give back to the community and to get to know our neighbors in Denver.

Our headquarters are still in downtown Boulder and we feel that Denver is a great place for us to expand. As a sponsor of the inaugural Denver Startup Week last year, it’s clear to us that Denver has “arrived” as an attractive place to build a startup. With companies like Slice of Lime and other vendors, mentors, and co-working spaces, it’s now easier than ever to get the support you need to launch your business.

Want to come chat or see the space in Denver? You’re in luck! Galvanize houses a fantastic cafe, restaurant, and bar called Gather that’s open to the public. Reach out and we’ll setup a time to meet. Gourmet coffee is on us!

Slice of Lime “Error Page” featured in Forbes

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.

Slice of Lime’s Sphero web design featured in The Web Designer’s Idea Book

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!

GeoPalz website wins Parents’ Choice Award

Slice of Lime is honored to have the website they created for GeoPalz win the prestigious Parents’ Choice Award. Slice of Lime created the marketing website as well as the user interface design for the GeoPalz web application.GeoPalz is a fun, active game where you win free toys and awards just for tracking your steps!

Each year, the ParentsChoice awards serve as source for journalists, educators and families to learn about new innovations in children’s products.

From the ParentsChoice editors:

This is a great way to teach children about the importance of exercise in a fun and low key way. Parents of school age children will get a lot out of using this product.

The ParentsChoice Award is the oldest nonprofit that independently provides guides and awards high quality children’s media and toys.

Congratulations to the Slice of Lime and GeoPalz teams!