Author Archives: Gabriel Radic

Drupal White House, Business as Usual

The news about WhiteHouse.gov switching to Drupal made the rounds.
Sure, Obama isn’t the first president to use open source: it was probably Clinton. Nor is this the first time Drupal …

Drupal and WordPress

The most popular and highly regarded content management systems today are arguably Drupal and WordPress.
Some of our customers even came to see us because 8 Points advertises as a …

Presentation – The ABC of User Testing

Last night I talked to the Entrepreneurs Meetup group about “The ABC of User Testing – Organize your design reality check on a budget”.
With the welcome interruptions and Q&A …

At Last, A Portfolio!

Throughout the years, my activity in DTP, graphic design, web, product management, user experience consulting and other domains built up into huge pile of stuff. It’s all in a folder …

Filiera Franceză

The largest community site for Romanians in France. The site was created in 2001 on a SPIP CMS, then migrated to Drupal in 2001. Many public or custom Drupal modules …

Ecran Large

One of the largest cinema and TV sites in France. Besides a new branding, the redesign added more interactivity, social features, automated workflows and a very powerful administration area.

Cafe.com Client Application

Cafe.com is a casual games social web site. The first version of the service used a Windows application to play games, chat, purchase items and edit the profile. I on …

Cafe.com Games and Avatars

Cafe.com is a casual games social web site. The site has a comprehensive avatar system and a large selection of games. I created the original style for the avatars and …

Cafe.com Branding and Web Site

Cafe.com is a casual games social web site. I created the original branding, designed the web site and wrote most of the content. As the product manager for the service, …

Boonty Partner Style Guide

A corporate image guideline document and the accompanying Photoshop templates, specifying the use of the Boonty’s brand on partner sites.

Boonty for Windows Media Center

Boonty is a leader in the downloadable casual video games space since its creation in 2001. The Windows Media Center Edition web application allows users to browse the MCE games …

Boonty Tutorial for Games Download

An animated tutorial for Boonty’s downloadable games service.

Boonty T-Shirt

Some fun entries for a Boonty T-shirt design competition. I didn’t win but I still like my proposals.

Boonty MetaShell

All Boonty games have a trial version, which uses a “nag screen” for game information and activation. This essential part of the purchase process was in need for a redesign. …

Boonty Affiliate Network

The system allows for affiliates to create campaigns based on specific games or selected topics, customer tracking, billing, automated reports and statistics.
I created the functional specifications, managed the development …

CSS Workshop

A short presentation of advanced CSS techniques and various tools, tips and tricks for hard-core web developers.

Afferto

Boonty Standard Site

GridXpert Synergy Presentation Templates

GridXpert is an important player in the grid computing solutions space, and one of the most important startups in this field in Europe. I redesigned the look and feel of …