Happy Cog Wins Big at 16th Annual Webby Awards
On May 21, 2012, Happy Cog and MTV Networks were awarded the big prize, winning the Webby for the "Celebrity/Fan" category. Read more
Work
Partnering with Happy Cog is a collaboration that provides results that extend far beyond our work together.
Zappos
The Shoe Fit
When the fine folks at Zappos.com realized that their business growth had outpaced the slowly-evolving aesthetic of their website, they called on Happy Cog. Customer service and site interaction wasn’t a problem, but the site didn’t capture and embrace the hallmarks of the Zappos.com culture.
MTV: O Music Awards
The O Music Awards is a digital celebration of online music culture. At this intersection of music and technology, Happy Cog delivered a Webby-winning, responsive experience.
Fonts.com
Happy Cog’s work with Fonts.com redesigning its e-commerce service had to exceed the most critical audience’s expectations, its own design peers.
BBVA Compass
In financial services, customer service is king. By unlocking the innovation within BBVA Compass and freeing content structure from departmental needs, Happy Cog redesigned the experience around customers first.
Einstein Healthcare
Einstein Healthcare’s rebrand presented a significant opportunity to innovate digitally. Happy Cog translated its new brand guidelines and user insights into an intuitive, empathic user experience.
VisitPhilly.com
How do you rebrand an entire city while driving an increase in hotel bookings? Happy Cog did just that for VisitPhilly.com through breathtaking graphic design and mapping to user behaviors.
Stanford University
Stanford University needed to own its message and fully own its site. Happy Cog helped Stanford University accomplish both through strategic design decisions and a customized, extensible content management system.
Thomson Reuters
A robust taxonomy and classification systsem was the secret to Happy Cog’s redesign for Thomson Reuters, especially as the corporation underwent a merger and rebrand mid-project.
Books-A-Million
When an e-commerce site is a flagship store, the customer needs to be able to find the checkout. Designing a ubiquitous shopping cart for Books-A-Million ensured cashiers were always there when customers need them.
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News
What’s happening? We’re launching websites, publishing articles, giving presentations, and building creative communities. Here are some of the things you should know about.
Now Hiring: Senior Project Manager
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Cognition, Our Blog
Cognition is our award-winning agency blog, where Happy Cog’s pixel pugilists share the science, strategy, and emotion of our work in web design. Here’s the latest and greatest.
Shut It Down!
September 6, 2012 By Joe Rinaldi
While cruising the boardwalk with my family this weekend, I was struck by what the boardwalk has in common with web design and development:
About
We’ve been designing digital experiences ever since the web existed. And that entire time we’ve stayed ahead of the curve.
An inspirational leader in the digital design industry, Jeffrey Zeldman, crowned the “King of Web Standards” by Businessweek and the first inductee to the SXSW Interactive Festival Hall of Fame, founded Happy Cog in 1999. Happy Cog has grown to become an industry-leading, diverse group of problem-solving superstars across three studios, united under the common goal of making the web a better place to think, work and play.
At Happy Cog, we openly share knowledge rather than tuck it away for some secret strategic advantage. An industry that shares information makes a better industry. We seek every opportunity to write, teach, and speak about what we do, and that's a big reason why our clients come to us.
As Happy Cog continues to evolve, we'll always be looking for ways to make digital communication, and the business that surrounds it, as meaningful and enjoyable as it can be.
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Happy Cog is a closely knit network of useful products, first-rate client services, educational publications, and transformative ideas.
Happy Cog Hosting
Industrial-grade hosting designed for high-profile sites with impressive traffic.
Shopify Themes
Premium Shopify themes designed, developed, and supported by Happy Cog.
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
The personal site of Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman. Since 1995.
Exploring the design, development, and meaning of web content.
An intensely educational conference for practitioners of standards-based web design.
Highly detailed and meticulously edited examinations of single topics.
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