A developer, designer, and amateur hammer-slinger living in Nahant, Massachusetts, Chris is a Principal at Cantina. A twelve year veteran in the user experience field, Chris has worked with Philips, NESN, Brightcove, Geiger, Harvard Business School, Showtime, Yankee Candle, Cognos, Analog Devices, Fleet Bank, and others. Chris helped to create some of the very first RIAs, and continues to look for ways to keep the experience simple, succinct and elegant. Chris believes that form is part and parcel of function, and is happy to see the fruits of UX advocacy solidly taking root. He’s on a relentless pursuit to visit all the world’s nooks and crannies, and believes music played live in front of an audience is by far the cat’s meow.
Back in the waning days of the last century, the web was afire with neat-o graphics visualizations courtesy of a young stallion known as Macromedia Flash. Built in a cauldron of early Actionscript, movie clips and faux-physics, these experiments were often good for a moment or two of eww and aww, but also the inevitable [...]
Friendster… MySpace… Facebook? In what could be one of this summer’s only worthy entertainment highlights (Inception aside), it looks as if Boss Google may be ordering up a hit on the family Zuckerberg. Under the working title “Google Me” (ala “Analyze This”), the story also features Facebook’s agrarian darling Zynga, who has left the family [...]
Cantina is actively looking for senior level Technical Architects and Project/Program Managers with technical consulting experience. Please have anyone that is interested from your networks send us a resume at jobs@cantinaconsulting.com. Candidates should based in the greater Boston area. Thank you!
Here comes a cat out of a bag – we’re in the process of building out our brand. Every growing company faces this challenge at some point, and so Cantina finds itself in the thick of it. As purveyors of tech that, at least in theory, increases social interaction and the power of community, we’ve [...]
Here it is, the spookiest night of the year and the prospect of another election day debacle is about as frightening a prospect as any. And why shouldn’t we be scared? What’s really changed in the past 8 years in regards to the process of voting? In 2000, the death of the chad pappy, the [...]
Flash 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… MX… MX 2004… 8… 9… … … and now? Just “10″. nice and easy. The latest and greatest from Adobe includes support for native 3D (bring on more carousel views), “inverse kinematics“, jointed assets that react intelligently to each other when animated (see PrayStation circa ’99?). Additionally, they promise [...]
Several market trends have been shaping the mobile services we offer at Cantina. The use of consumer technologies in the enterprise is increasing, including everything from Dropbox, social networks, Google apps, and mobile devices. Companies considering the deployment of business applications to the mobile context need to consider bring your own device (BYOD) strategies to [...]
