Anthony Franco

Found this funny interactive agency description on an internets today, I removed the agency name to protect the guilty XYZ offers interactive services across strategy, ideation and professional services delivery. Built on enterprise methodologies and rooted in entrepreneurial spi... (more)

Over the last several months, we’ve been discussing with our clients the value of user experience. I’ve noticed a shift in our industry, one that I think is worth mentioning. First, a bit of history. EffectiveUI started as a Flash development  company – Me, Andy, Drew, Geoff, Jim... (more)

Whoa, check this out. We just made the prestigious Inc. 500 list ! #55 no less!! Crazy how this little, 4 year old company has become all grown up so fast. Kudos to the whole team here! We also made: #5 company run by a woman (for my money, we have the best CEO in the world, not ... (more)

At the surface, Microsoft’s Bing may look like Google, but once you dig in a bit you notice a lot of nice little enhancements that make a huge diference. I’ve only been using Bing for the last 2 hours and I’ve already decided it is my new favorite search engine. The search result... (more)

Well, I am excited to say we have launched our new website: http://www.effectiveui.com/ In an earlier post, I talked about the difficulties we were experiencing with designing and building our own website. I think, given our company objectives, the team hit a home run. What did... (more)

Rebecca Flavin, our CEO and one of our clients, Stephanie Copeland (Vice President Business Market Solutions at Qwest Communications) presented an awesome session today at the 2009 Forrester Customer Experience Forum. The session was packed (in fact, it was the most attended sess... (more)

It is quite nice working for a company that is constantly adopting new technologies. I can justify purchases of new gadgets to myself saying “its for research, after all I’m in the biz” :D  One of my favorite gadgets of course is the iPhone. I went out and bought a first gen iPho... (more)

This is total speculation, but I believe it would be very possible for Apple to enter the cloud computing space. A recent article in the Charlotte Observer (found via a mac rumors article) is claiming they are offering Apple a huge tax break to set up a billion dollar server farm... (more)

First, “suck” is too strong a word. The original goal when we developed our site 3 years ago was to show what we do rather than try to describe what we do with fancy marketing copy. The site certainly does that – we often hear: “I went to your website and instantly understood wha... (more)

This is the BEST thing I think I’ve ever seen …  (thanks tim wood for introducing me to this!) ... (more)

About 4 months ago I wrote a post about the difficulty differentiating with an iPhone application. I forecasted 3 billion downloads and 100,000 applications by the middle of this year - and my calculations are proving accurate with the app store reaching 25,000 apps and 1 billion... (more)

Enterprises are realizing that the web is more than a sum of its content - the web is a software platform. In addition to simply delivering content and messaging, the web can deliver utility and drive customer-to-business value. These same enterprises have also spent a tremendous... (more)

Wow, hard to believe this will be out third Web 2.0 event … seems like only yesterday when I was helping Rebecca set up our first booth (and really upsetting the union labor) — This year we have a pretty big booth, and some cool announcements. I’m also speaking Michael Clark (VP ... (more)

I am so glad I came across this sight. They have developed an easy way for the masses to ride this Web 2.0 trend…   In case you do not believe this is an actual site : buzzbot demo ... (more)

Had a fun session last week at Mix in Vegas… Top 10- ways at fail at software development.  I had an hour and 15 minutes, but I talked really fast and got it done in 40 :) Microsoft filmed the session: http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C06F   Here is the list I go through … DO N... (more)

Over the last four years, I have been incredibly fortunate to watch our company grow from Andy, Drew, and myself to more than 100 people. It’s been a tough but exciting road… “bootstrapping” has had its challenges for sure. During our crazy growth, we have always left our CEO pos... (more)

Over the last four years, I have been incredibly fortunate to watch our company grow from Andy, Drew, and myself to more than 100 people. It’s been a tough but exciting road… “bootstrapping” has had its challenges for sure. During our crazy growth, we have always left our CEO pos... (more)

Over the last four years, I have been incredibly fortunate to watch our company grow from Andy, Drew, and myself to more than 100 people. It’s been a tough but exciting road… “bootstrapping” has had its challenges for sure. During our crazy growth, we have always left our CEO pos... (more)

Over the last four years, I have been incredibly fortunate to watch our company grow from Andy, Drew, and myself to more than 100 people. It’s been a tough but exciting road… “bootstrapping” has had its challenges for sure. During our crazy growth, we have always left our CEO pos... (more)

Over the last four years, I have been incredibly fortunate to watch our company grow from Andy, Drew, and myself to more than 100 people. It’s been a tough but exciting road… “bootstrapping” has had its challenges for sure. During our crazy growth, we have always left our CEO pos... (more)