http://blog.theroyalorder.com The Royal Order of Experience Design's weblog. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:47:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The recently redesigned Destination Kohler has received a Bronze Adrian Award from HSMAI (Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International) in the “Web Marketing, Integrated Market Campaign for Consumers” category. The site was judged based on overall creative as well as Online Booking integration, new consumer tools (things like Click to ... http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/244 This past year The Royal Order was chosen to redesign the Kohler Engines website. TRO has been a long-time partner with Kohler brands and their Engines brand is no exception. It was TRO who designed the last version of kohlerengines.com back in 2004. This time around a lot has changed. ... http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/224 Login to your Facebook profile and search Pages for "The Royal Order of Experience Design." Here you'll be able to chat with everyone at TRO, share findings, and poke us. http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/222 http://twitter.com/theroyalorder The Royal Order has officially joined the thousands of people addicted to Twitter. So follow our page, and in less than 140 characters you'll learn about the latest RO news. http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/220 As of yesterday RO has put me in charge of this blog. Here's some information about myself: I graduated in May from Arizona State University with a degree in Visual Communication Design. 7 friends and I are putting up sketch comedy shows in Pilsen every tuesday(I don't know the name ... http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/218 With only fifty five minutes left as an employee of the Royal Order, I feel it appropriate to leave some parting thoughts. I've not posted here in some time — the Tutor/Mentor Connection Project took over my workdays with increasing determination, right up until the end. Although the site development is ... http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/186 The technology is clearly ahead of its time. But a new client side CMS named firerift has my attention. At first glance, Fire Rift is impressive. The CMS has set out to make life easier for developers by only managing your content via the CMS. No more hacking of your html ... http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/180 When my son Leo was born, my then neighbor – artist Mike Lash – decided to create a series of paintings based on some of the not-quite-facts that adults tell children to help them make sense out of the universe. He called the series 'Lies for Leo', and asked me ... http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/109 With marketing budgets tightening and full-scale site redesigns becoming somewhat less frequent, we are seeing a growing number of clients that wish to make changes opting for optimization. Whether the site was originally developed by The Royal Order or not, we are being tasked with modifying the experience based on ... http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/103 Mike Diedrich was one of the founding members of the Royal Order, and still a close friend and colleague who now works full time producing TV spots for Ogilvy — our benevolent landlord. A long time Cub fan, Mike decided to make a documentary about the guys that hang out ... http://blog.theroyalorder.com/archives/96