Brand Strategy
A key insight leads to a new store launch on Christmas Eve — in August. →
Baseball re-imagined as as a modern entertainment media property. →
An analysis of thousands of forum posts reveals core emotional needs of patients. →
What color is your day? An experiment shows how people feel after a night of sleep. →
Media Research
A study shows the perceived worth of products is boosted by up to 74% by adding stories to product listings. →
"Chinese Netflix" experiment shows opportunities to guide viewers’ decisions. →
Face-reading software interprets emotions in famous portraits. →
We engineer a viral site to understand how memes spread online. Read the full report. →
Five families spend a week without cable to uncover problems with streaming devices. →
Charging people for watching their own TV reveals their true preferences. →
A replication of a famous hoax explores whether subliminal advertising works. →
Subliminal Advertising
Showed that subliminal ads have no effect in an attempt to replicate a famous 1950s hoax.
Priceless Moments
Made people pay for watching their own TV to understand how they choose programming.
Cord Cutting
Left five local families without cable for a week to understand the cord-cutting phenomenon.
The Value of Stories
Showed how adding stories to product listings increases perceived worth of products by up to 70%.
The Effect of Choice
Experimentally established that the act of choice, even if illusory, leads to differences in recall of content.
Multiple Screens
Conducted an experiment that simulated the experience of watching TV while being distracted by a smartphone, and measured the effect of concurrent consumption on ad metrics.
Spreadable Content
Using a Jersey Shore parody side, showed how memes spread online, and how analytics should account for the differences in propagation potential of visitors from each referrer.
Experience Design
How to design a digital command center. →
Charts and Graphs
Credits
Most of the work featured here was done at Hill Holliday. Many people at the agency made it happen, but none of it would have been possible without the brilliant researchers, analysts, designers, data scientists, and engineers at Origin/CBI with whom I had the privilege to collaborate during my 7 years there:
Shakira MacLyons, Rachel Nakanishi, Jenna Swan-Gross, Neha Leela Ruch, Chris Plating, Clarissa Hillen, Robert St. Loius, Chris Sherrill, Laura Kopp, Karen Hu, Christopher van der Lugt, Bill Letson, Henry Bruce, Andres Hernandez, Remy Lupica, Blair Ballard, Domenic Dion, Angelina Zhou, Jared Adler, Ken Faro, Matthew McKenna, Lindsey Decker, Marissa Fasanelli.
Andres Hernandez designed the slides, charts and illustrations for most projects you see here, and many more. All art for the UX projects was created by Ann Karash Kimura, Jim Sowden, James Adame, Bryan Moehlenkap, John Torres, and Eric Fensterheim.