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UI Design and Implementation of a Custom Shopify Theme

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Zara Baladi Food Products is a packaging and wholesale distribution company offering imported spices, spice blends, cooking supplies and groceries, to ethnic grocers, commercial kitchens and restaurants. Recently they developed a concept for a B2C e-commerce brand called Spice of Zara.

Invent Dev Inc. Phase 2

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Invent Dev Inc. is a Toronto based software developer specializing in creating highly interactive 3D marketing solutions for real estate developers. This project will go beyond the existing software product to allow end-users to not only visualize a floor plan, but allow them to customize the finishes, furniture and décor and then share their design with their friends and family.

Vocalage Give Targets: Innovations in Social Giving

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Vocalage Inc., a high-tech spinoff company of the Interactive Media Laboratory at the University of Toronto, has partnered with George Brown College to develop its “Give Button”. The Give Button, which can be placed on any online product page, offers a social giving service where organizations such as universities and hospitals can allow groups of people to contribute to specific fundraising goals, such as scholarships or medical equipment.

Komodo Tecla Cellphone Interface

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Komodo Open Labs Inc. (KOL) and George Brown College’s Centre for Construction and Engineering Technology (CCET) are collaborating to develop a production version of the Tecla Bluetooth interface for Android® and iPhones®. KOL’s Tecla is a set of open software and hardware tools that facilitate access to electronic devices for people with mobility impairments.

Development of a web-based information dashboard

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The GBC Centre for Construction and Engineering has partnered with Fleetmetrica Inc. to assist in the development of their product SafetyMonitor™. Fleetmetrica Inc. is a new business venture incorporated in early 2010 with plans to offer an enhanced web-based information dashboard to commercial heavy truck fleet owners.