Going Green for the Holidays.

Mediabarn goes green and opts for all digital holiday card. And no, it wasn't because we are cheapskates. We donated our printing costs saved to arborday.org to plant trees on behalf of our friends and colleagues. View our holiday wishes here.

World Usability Day 2007

Mediabarn hosted an open house to help celebrate World Usability Day which was Nov 7th. We gave tours of our usability lab, demonstrations of our new eye tracking system, and conducted small user testing sessions on some local hospital web sites.

Glad everyone came out!

Eyetracking Services

Mediabarn is proud to announce that we now provide eyetracking on our premises. Our lab uses eyetracking industry leader Tobii's most recent system to eyetrack websites, ads, video, design and ui prototypes.

User Focus 2007

Media Barn is a proud sponsor of User Focus 2007, the second annual UPA-DC Metro Chapter Conference.

Mediabarn Placement Services is called on again!

Mediabarn Placement Services partners with several new clients in July including The Motley Fool and Discovery Communications.

WSJ and Our Own Mauro Scappa

The Wall Street Journal interviewed Mauro for their Career section. Mauro shares some of his insights on finding really amazing talent. Read it here.

Create Magazine Highlights our Lab

We are pleased to announce that our User Interface Lab has been featured in this month's Create Magazine.

Oh Kodak, you too?

Why do **photo** paper manufactures keep putting out old letterhead sizes like 8.5x11 sizes when all photo FRAMES are 8x10 and have been like FOREVER? Even my newly purchased Kodak super mega mirror finish super gloss HD paper i purchased was 8.5x11, i had no idea until i carefully cropped and printed an 8x10 digital photo and there was white blocks where i expected ink to be.

So Frame makers when are you going to realize that all cameras and paper manufacturers are at 8.5x11 ratios and sizes? When am i going to see 8.5x11 frames at target? Here is something else that is nuts...even Kodak Gallery .com only offers 8x10 enlargements but their own premium paper is 8.5x11??? Yikes.

There is lots of cropping and trimming going on. I bet at home craft trimmers sales have gone through the roof.

Come on! This one is easy...someone just make the switch! I vote for 8x10, although 8.5x11 is closer to 16x9...maybe we just need a widescreen paper size, so our photo screensavers on our TVs and Computer LCD screens will not be stretched. My mom will thank you for not making her look 30% wider.