Welcome. We're an award-winning design consultancy in San Francisco that specializes in the design and user experience of web applications, smart devices, digital products and networked communities.

featured projects

gdgt
We designed the user interface and the overall design system for gdgt, a new social gadget platform and community.
IDEO
We worked with IDEO on their site redesign, creating interaction design concepts and prototypes to illustrate new features.
Honk
We collaborated with Honk’s founding partners to detail user interactions and flows and design the user interface.

news

Ideacodes Comments About the iPad in the New York Times

Ideacodes co-founders, Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, were asked for a comment by the New York Times’ Room for Debate online discussion site about the iPad two days after the debut of the first WiFi version in the U.S. The post, titled The iPad in the Eyes of the Digerati, also includes opinions from Tim O’Reilly, David Gelernter [...]

Emily Chang in Forbes’ 20 Inspiring Women on Twitter

Halle Tecco’s piece at Forbes, 20 Inspiring Women To Follow On Twitter, highlights “women with a skill for putting their hearts and complex issues into 140 characters.” Of Ideacodes co-founder, Emily Chang, she says: “@EmilyChang is a designer and entrepreneur in San Francisco. [...]

Ideacodes Designs Honk

Ideacodes worked with Honk on the original design and UI for their private beta release. Honk is a social platform for car shoppers that gathers and shares opinions and insights from like-minded people to make the process of discovering cars simple, social, and most of all, fun. Powering Honk’s search tool is a social [...]

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