Here’s a little something that we’ve been working on. Check out the AddThis mural in our conference room. The plus signs actually have typography on it, displaying top shared articles from a specific date. Each plus represents a different milestone, significant to our company’s history.
One of my coworkers (Andy), took some photos of the new office. It’s starting to get really exciting seeing all of it come together. We’re only one week away from moving in now.
Here’s a stitched panoramic of the café/kitchen area. As you can see, there’s a sweet bar on the left, and all the space on the right is a nice common area. Here’s a photo of it from a week ago.
Here’s a shot of the bar area. It’ll be pretty sweet with the industrial stools we got from CB2 and the chairs from west elm.
Here’s another view of the café area. It has a pretty nice view, if you ask me. 🙂 It’s going to be such a great space for everyone to centralize around. It’s a big win for our culture and style.
The upholstery for the bench seating will be coming in a couple of weeks. I think this is going to be a really sweet area after we get all the furniture in there… and hopefully a ping pong table + dart board. Here’s a blackboard where we can keep track of our scores!
Double fridges and a cooler for drinks.
Double microwaves with tons of storage space.
Here’s a photo of the reception area.
Here’s a picture of the large conference room, aka “Johnny 5”. This will have a sweet installation on the wall, in the near future.
Here are some phone booths. We’ve seen smaller ones at other offices, but we figured we needed something a little larger, in the event that we needed to squeeze two people in there for a quick call.
Here’s a photo of the main pit area.
Here’s a view in the main pit area.
This is the administration/hr/AdOps pit.
Here’s a nice size nook for folks to print and collate stuff.
Check out an rendering I created of the space a few weeks ago. It should give you an idea of what the furniture will look like.
Here are some photos of the new office cafe area. It’s going to be the highlight of the space. It’s still in working progress, but you can get a sense of how it’s all starting to come together.
We recently had a hackathon, and we played around with the idea of updating our data dashboard (“GB9000”). I had the chance to work with Steve D., Sol and Will on this project. I couldn’t really contribute much code, but I was able to help with some of the concepts and visualizations. Here’s a 3d model of what it’ll look like in our new office. You can compare this rendering to our current dashboard.
What’s really cool about this hack is that you can walk up to the dashboard and use voice or gestural commands to control it. One of the ideas we implemented was a video portal to our New York office, activated by a voice command.
You can also use hand gestures to control the interface. For example, you can swipe left/right to control the dashboard. It was really cool watching the guys hack the Xbox Kinect.
Huge kudos to our hackathon team. We won the people’s choice award. To see some of our previous hackathons.
When we create new features for AddThis or identify defects, we use Trac to help us manage and prioritize all our tasks. While Trac is powerful, it can be a little laborious at times. I mocked up a Chrome extension that could help make ticket creation easier.
What do you use to keep Trac of your stories and defects?
I’m loving the new disqus.com design. I kind of wish AddThis.com could try something like this. I still feel like our site is a little dated, in terms of using JS. It might be time to bring in some spice. Hat tip: Aaron
I’m loving the demo. The other pages are looking pretty sweet. The site was designed by Joshua Sortino. Looks like I’ll be following him from now on.