Category Archives: Office management

So long, Houz2. It was fun.

Houz used to be a great design resource. They even wanted us to upload images and tell stories. We even got badges for good work. Then the badges became more and more scarce, the sales calls more frequent. There was less and less reward for adding content to their site and more demand for “upgrades”.Continue reading “So long, Houz2. It was fun.”

Remote communication

In this time of COVID-19, we can’t meet directly with clients. Luckily, we have a lot of communication methods available as long as we have internet access and electricity. For commercial projects, we get base plans from the architect or engineer, complete our work, and send it back for inclusion in the plan set asContinue reading “Remote communication”

Incredible Amazing!

Keep up with technology or fall behind. That’s what they say, and besides some of the stuff is pretty cool. What’s even more fun is hearing all the buzzwords they use to describe whatever they’re hawking. Can we use these magical words here, for landscape architecture? As the song says, come with me and we’ll be in a worldContinue reading “Incredible Amazing!”

Making a web site adaptive.

Time waits for nobody, and technology is even more impatient. Our web site was not responsive, then it wasn’t adaptive. Now it’s adaptive, mostly. This means that beautiful big images now adapt to teeny tiny phone screens. Not only did the site need a whole new set of icons for better visual identity, it neededContinue reading “Making a web site adaptive.”

Down with binders!

The office bookcase sagged under the weight of years of accumulated binders filled with catalogs, promos, product information, new plant announcements, those samples of fake grass that arrived one day long ago… Binders are part of an old paradigm, where companies kept everyone up to date by periodically visiting, throwing out the old data and replacingContinue reading “Down with binders!”