Kim Miller

Interactive Designer :: Boston office

Like many good people we know, Kim Miller was educated at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she majored in New Media Design & Imaging. Turns out she is really good at that stuff. So good, in fact, that when she first came in to talk to us about becoming a Barbarian, most of the people in the interview process became nervous about the prospect of working with her because she might upstage them and make them look like the worst Barbarians ever. So far this hasn’t happened. Kim is all class.
Since that time, Kim has established herself as the best liked Barbarian in the Boston office (sorry Kenji). This is because she is quite the baker. Not kidding. Every week she brings stuff in for the office. And it is probably because of these weekly acts of kindness that most Barbarians are afraid to challenge her opinion on anything for fear she will take the baked goods away. We never want that to happen.
After reading this you might come away with the impression that most Barbarians are afraid of Kim Miller. And you may be right.

The Red Pyramid Puzzle!

Author Rick Riordan (who wrote the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and the Tres Navarre series) has just released the first book in his latest collection: The Kane Chronicles. It’s called THE RED PYRAMID and it’s got Pharaohs, estranged siblings, family drama, Egyptian mythology – basically everything that is awesome. To everyone’s surprise, tapes have been popping up around the country with audio passages from the book. Rick Riordan blogged about it here and here.
We’re pretty sure this has something to do with a website that we recently designed and built. We’re sort of hoping that you can help us out and put the puzzle pieces together to make sense of it all. This is not a challenge for the feeble of heart, so check out the book, hunt down the audio tapes, and definitely look at the site! You will be rewarded handsomely. This much we know.

The New American Experience Site

GUESS WHAT?! We just launched an awesome new site for television’s most-watched history series, American Experience. With over 200 documentaries under their belt, American Experience needed a way to organize their huge amounts of content and bring their full length films to an online audience. Check out their fancy new homepage!
Sound vaguely familiar, you say? We helped American Experience bring these films online last year with a partial site refresh. This year we noticed that our partial refresh was uncovering some unmet needs and some content holes, so we completely redesigned and re-architected the site to meet those needs and bring even more American Experience content online.
In addition to the full length films, we added a blog, special features for films, timelines, photo galleries, maps, a better broadcast schedule, and a place to share your own American experience. Hooray!
And everything is powered by a super slick CMS. We completely revamped their old CMS to be a whole lot more flexible. Now American Experience can fully control almost all aspects of their site, all by themselves.
Visually, we kept the look & feel alive from last year and gave it some major upgrades to accommodate all of this new awesome content. These upgrades will help the site live on in our minds and hearts, like Abraham Lincoln.
We are super proud of the steps we’ve taken over the last year with American Experience to get their site to where it is today. If you have a soft spot for things like Presidents, War, Pop Culture, Civil Rights, and The American West – well then, this site is for you.

Red Wine Chocolate Cupcakes

Chocolate and wine. In a cupcake.