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Gray Duck Labs Gray Duck Labs accelerates uncommon ideas from concept to product to profit. We help product teams of all sizes move to their next stage, whatever that may be.

Gray Duck Labs was hatched as a place to test, nurture and accelerate unique product concepts.

Getting a bit more technical with this one, but for any Rails developers who want a cool way to do state-by-state visual...
02/20/2013

Getting a bit more technical with this one, but for any Rails developers who want a cool way to do state-by-state visualizations using only HTML/CSS, this post is for you:

A few weeks ago, Ben Markowitz, a UX designer at Intridea released an open source web font called Stately. Stately allows designers to make simple, …

New blog post with a suggestion for fixing conference call frustration with better design.
12/21/2012

New blog post with a suggestion for fixing conference call frustration with better design.

Conference calls are an unfortunate fact of life. No one loves their conference call system, but even in the age of Skype, Join.me, Google+ Hangouts …

Updated the GrayDuckLabs.com homepage! Check out this blog post to learn more about why I updated and what tools I used.
11/05/2012

Updated the GrayDuckLabs.com homepage! Check out this blog post to learn more about why I updated and what tools I used.

When I chose to leave my awesome strategy consulting job to pursue a freelancing career in product design and development, creating a brand to …

Had a fun day at the Apple store testing out the shiny new responsive design features of Gray Duck Labs!
11/05/2012

Had a fun day at the Apple store testing out the shiny new responsive design features of Gray Duck Labs!

New blog post: Usability vs. Advertising http://www.grayducklabs.com/posts/6
08/11/2012

New blog post: Usability vs. Advertising http://www.grayducklabs.com/posts/6

Is good design compatible with advertising? A quick jaunt through some of the Internet's most popular web and mobile properties would suggest the answer is mostly no.

New Blog Post: The Power of Disruptive Design
04/13/2012

New Blog Post: The Power of Disruptive Design

Cloud computing is fueled by pervasive broadband networks and commodity server hardware. Smartphones are driven by low-cost microprocessors and high-speed wireless networks. Big data is created by massive online datasets and new distributed computing frameworks.

Hard to concentrate on real work when the Mass Challenge deadline is today!
04/11/2012

Hard to concentrate on real work when the Mass Challenge deadline is today!

MassChallenge, an annual $1M global startup competition and accelerator program, catalyzes the launch and success of high-growth, high-impact new businesses.

PowerPoint gets knocked a lot (by us included!), but PowerPoint can be a powerful tool for communicating ideas if you pu...
03/31/2012

PowerPoint gets knocked a lot (by us included!), but PowerPoint can be a powerful tool for communicating ideas if you put some thought into the design.

This is a graphic we created for Wikicast, to help explain the product concept to potential customers and investors. Check out how the idea grew from sketch to final draft.

The website is UP. Read more about what Gray Duck Labs is all about on our blog: http://www.grayducklabs.com/blog
03/30/2012

The website is UP. Read more about what Gray Duck Labs is all about on our blog: http://www.grayducklabs.com/blog

For the past six years, I've worked as a strategy consultant in the technology and telecom industry. I have been lucky to work with great colleagues and amazing clients across the industry, but what I enjoyed most about my time as a consultant was helping organizations adapt their products to take a...

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