Tumblr (3.0; @happycog)http://happycog.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0xpvc0Odr1roh736o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Illustration for <a href="http://cognition.happycog.com/article/please-put-down-the-device-lets-just-talk">Please Put Down the Device & Let’s Just Talk</a> by Yesenia Perez-Cruz</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/19347407205http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/19347407205Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:30:00 -0400cognitionillustrationhappycog“Would you go into a meeting and cover your eyes or ears? Would you attend a meeting and ignore everyone in the room? It sounds absurd, but this is what you’re doing when you attend a meeting and spend time scanning your device for the latest email, tweet, or Facebook notification. What makes meetings effective (and worthwhile) is that they allow participants to engage in verbal and nonverbal communication for shared meaning.”<br/><br/> - <em><h2 class="alpha"><a href="http://cognition.happycog.com/article/please-put-down-the-device-lets-just-talk"><em>Please Put Down the Device & Let’s Just Talk</em></a> by Dave DeRuchie</h2></em>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/19347200978http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/19347200978Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:24:00 -0400meetingshappycogcognition<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37909699?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Hey, we’re on Internet TV! <a href="http://www.37signals.com">37signals</a> came by our Philadelphia office during #siteweek to talk to us about <a href="http://www.basecamp.com">Basecamp.</a> We had a great time sharing our experiences and how Basecamp is integrated in our day-to-day process.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/18851106134http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/18851106134Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:59:00 -0500happycog37signalsbasecamp<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzrf29H1SU1roh736o1_400.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Our friend, Grant Hutchinson put our new site to the test with his Apple Newton:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/splorp/6853668237/in/photostream/">HTML5 vs Newton: Happy Cog</a></p> <blockquote> <p>The Happy Cog crew completely redesigned, rebranded, and relaunched their site in a single week. To celebrate this accomplishment, I thought I’d run it through Eckhart Köppen’s Courier browser on my 13 year old Newton MessagePad 2100. As with other sites rendered on the Newton, images are missing and there are a few character encoding issues. However, this is great example of a modern site that can be viewed and navigated on an extant browsing platform.</p> </blockquote>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/18023775603http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/18023775603Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:18:08 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lznrvrVyGA1roh736o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Illustration for <a href="http://cognition.happycog.com/article/i-went-to-site-week">“I Went to Site Week and All I Got Was a Better Future.”</a> by Kevin Sharon</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17902680439http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17902680439Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:04:38 -0500“After reflecting upon the results, I gotta say, I’m very pleased with the new Happy Cog. From here on out we’re not treating our website as a sacred cow as we once did. It becomes too easy to second-guess new ideas and avoid any level of risk. The “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality is a mantra of slow death to creative people. In some ways Happy Cog fell victim to this, but not anymore.”<br/><br/> - <em><h2 class="alpha"><em><a href="http://cognition.happycog.com/article/i-went-to-site-week">I Went to Site Week and All I Got Was a Better Future</a> </em>by Greg Storey</h2></em>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17902503189http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17902503189Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:01:35 -0500<p><a href="http://www.happycog.com">We did it!</a></p> <p>On Monday morning we came to work with little more than a new brand, a list of goals and an idea for how to publish a completely new website (running on a custom CMS) five days later. Here we are on Friday afternoon having achieved everything we set out to do. We have learned a lot this week and will be sharing everything we&#8217;ve learned in the weeks and months ahead.<br/><br/>Next Monday, we&#8217;ll be back to the regular work week while continuing to make enhancements to our new online home. We launched a small site in the last five days but have taken a big step in our ability to collaborate and create. You can expect to see and hear more from us in the near future.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/blog/happycog/followers">Thank you all for following our progress</a> and for your words of encouragement along the way. We&#8217;re going to go have a few beers now, have a lot of laughs and collapse into a deep sleep.<br/><br/>Have a good weekend!</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17386508888http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17386508888Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:26:00 -0500thankyou<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/happycog/17384894660/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_17384894660" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="225" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Developertowne.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17384894660http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17384894660Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:53:15 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz7306PJD31roh736o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Heading down the home stretch.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17384548297http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17384548297Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:45:41 -0500<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/happycog/17383842271/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_17383842271" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="225" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Frantic bugfixery.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17383842271http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17383842271Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:29:31 -0500<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/happycog/17380007699/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_17380007699" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="225" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Quality Assurance Time.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17380007699http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17380007699Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:26 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6toyLfS71qz5yqjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://brilliantcrank.com/post/17376920690/siteweek-launch-day-lunch-order-taken-with">brilliantcrank</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>#siteweek Launch day lunch order. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">Instagram</a> at Happy Cog East)</p> </blockquote>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17376973499http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17376973499Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:26:11 -0500<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/happycog/17375837350/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_17375837350" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="225" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Crunch time.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17375837350http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17375837350Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:52:36 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6loqxkPy1roh736o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A sneak peek.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17371625827http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17371625827Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:31:37 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6ioepS7c1roh736o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Progress Pie.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17370148324http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17370148324Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:26:38 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6imaSjq51roh736o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>A little sneak peak.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17370122215http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17370122215Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:25:22 -0500<iframe src="//www.tumblr.com/video/happycog/17332819346/400" id="tumblr_video_iframe_17332819346" class="tumblr_video_iframe" width="400" height="225" style="display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>4PM status meeting.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17332819346http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17332819346Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:15:11 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz55xuTnqT1qz5yqjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://brilliantcrank.com/post/17328790599/custom-cms-siteweek-taken-with-instagram-at">brilliantcrank</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Custom CMS! #siteweek</p> </blockquote>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17329168814http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17329168814Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:02:49 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3luapiJU1roh736o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Breaking News.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17287639101http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17287639101Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:09 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3lrfC33K1roh736o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ample Room.</p>http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17287529787http://happycog.tumblr.com/post/17287529787Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:40:27 -0500