School's out for Summer!

Year two of grad school done and in the books, yay! This quarter was a lot of fun. My class project was to do a redesign of a website of our choosing. My group decided to take on the Peddler Brewing Co. (a brewery in Ballard) site since it was in desperate need of help. It was also a bonus that all of our research could be done in their outdoor beer garden!

We started out by interviewing patrons and having them run through the current site for us to find out what could be improved upon, and what'd they are looking for when visiting a brewery website. We made an initial prototype, then each week we would test it and make changes.

This past week in our last class, we presented our final design to everyone in the class as well as the owner of the bar. Everyone was impressed, and we're pretty proud of the job we did.

You can check out our work here: current site and our new site.

beer garden

food truck for dog treats, so fun!

pop-up dog park for an event

old site

new site

Vaudeville Etiquette at the KPC

Clint's old property manager (when his office was in Kirkland) Jeff and his wife Chris invited us to a show at the Kirkland Performance Center that they had sponsored. Vaudeville Etiquette was performing, a country folk rock band, and they were great! We even go to attend the VIP pre show down in the bar under the stage where they did a couple of acoustic songs.

The KPC is such a cool venue, and we're lucky to now have friends in high places...looking forward to seeing more shows there in the future!