Mobile
Mobile application resolutions.
Can an app help you keep motivated?
Building Apps for Resolutions
Can your phone pay you to go to the gym? How mobile applications can help you keep your resolutions.
Customer Insights
Following the thread.
Global site launch. 13,000 man-hours. Just did it.
Social Media
Win while you lose!
Thousands of "likes" turns into lots of "love" for Jenny centres!
Innovation
GRAMMY Night. And day.
TNG transforms the big musical event into a year-round community.
Mobile
What's the phone feature for 2012?
Every year it seems like mobile devices become more powerful and have more features.
Bluetooth Low Energy—the Phone Feature for 2012?
This year, Bluetooth low energy has the potential to become one of the phone features that gets deeply integrated into our lives.
Customer Insights
Feel like new. Feel like you.
A new look for a new "Jenny".
Social Media
Social media roadmaps-R-us.
12 key steps to a standout social media campaign.
The Social Media Marketing Plan: 12 Critical Questions for Planners
Learn the 12 critical questions to creating a social media marketing plan.
Innovation
A responsive approach.
Designing for a web of successively capable devices.
Design Mobile First
Mobile browser market share is rising. The time has come to embrace the flexibility of the web with new approaches to design.
Mobile
Hanging with Isaac Mizrahi.
His QVC Fantasy Closet app: What's inside it?
Customer Insights
Improve performance standards.
Performance benchmarking is critical to setting goals.
Improve Performance Benchmarking with Standard Deviation
Use standard deviation with performance benchmarking to help understand your web metrics.
Social Media
This just in.
thenewgroup: Stick to your #newyearsresolutions this year! Check out our latest #blog post: "Building Apps for Resolutions." http://t.co/lUvWG3b4
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 4:42pm
Innovation
Acronym alert. FYI.
Latest online tools get the once-over at a recent brown bag.
What is HTML5, Really?
Discover the real meaning of HTML5 and what this set of new features may mean for you.
Mobile
More for 2012
Mobile UI Design and Strategy Development Trends, Pt. II
12 for 2012 Part II—Mobile UI Design and Strategy Development Trends
More emerging aspects of mobile to inform your approach.
Customer Insights
Build it and they will come.
From printers to e-statements, TNG spins a web.
Social Media
Social Shopping Season
Social shopping is here this year!
'Tis the Season to Be Social Shopping
Online shopping is going social this year; learn the pros and cons of it.
Innovation
Four Babbles to test-drive.
Get inspired to start your own!
Let's Get Ready to Babble!
So here goes: four Babbles to test-drive and hopefully inspire you to start some interesting babbles of your own.
Portfolio: Highlights from the gallery.
QVC Isaac Mizrahi
Jennycraig.com Redesign
GRAMMY365
NikeU
NikeU
eLearning Program
An incredible visual brand system for the Nike Global Talent Development team.
Nike thread
Nike thread
eLearning Program
Creating a global meeting and learning ground for Nike's merchandisers.
QVC Bare Escentuals
QVC In the Kitchen w/ David
QVC In the Kitchen w/ David
Mobile Application
eCommerce-enabled iPhone application w/ live video feed.
Vote for Your Centre
Vote for Your Centre
Social Media Marketing
Developed a social media campaign/contest to find the most "liked" Jenny centre.
Nike Retail Connect
S.R.Smith
Freightliner
Freightliner
Social Media Marketing
Made the daily life of four truckers easy to follow. Site pulls in real-time driver stats: mph, location, more.
Ricoh/InfoPrint
Ricoh/InfoPrint
Online Marketing
Broadened their sales from printers to a suite of business offerings in a full web redesign.
Pretty much fabulous: Most of the time, anyway.
A Little History.
TNG peeked out of the bassinet in 1993. We've grown to be a full-service digital agency with more than 30 staff. We help major brands grow and stay relevant to consumers—in a world where relevance has to be earned daily. How? By thinking with rigor, being open, collaborating, creating bold solutions based on insight, and always serving clients with the right team.
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Information Architecture
One Big Happy Family
Recent Thoughts
Some of Our Clients
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People: A sum even greater than the parts.
Anne Sturdivant
Technology
"Architecture. Portland History. Lichens. Not necessarily in that order."
Technology = curiosity x logic x time + a small percentage of magic.
Doug New
Management
"I found out I can take a 3 month sabbatical and all things TNG run quite smoothly without me. Hmm."
Brian Unflat
Creative
"Eagle Scout. Alaska fishing boat veteran. Better watch out, Brawny towel guy."
Jon Antoine
Technology
"Snowboard expert. Wakeboard expert. And recently, diaper expert."
Dan Siger
Technology
"Used to have a rathah English accent."
Doug Henderson
Technology
"Caution: You are entering the realm of a 2nd-degree black belt."
Gerry Sposato
Creative
"If there's a volcano on the West Coast, I've probably climbed it."
Kat Sampson
Creative
"I love anything dinosaurs. And practicing the lost art of Scherenschnitte."
Dann Parks
Creative
"Won an Emmy for graphic design. I wonder if the 3 wheel car I invented could win something?"
Daniel Weinsoft
Client Services
"Not only do I do triathlons and marathons, I am Earth's #1 spreadsheet guru."
The best way for a plan to succeed is to have one.
Matt Wiater
Technology
"I lived in my 30th American city when I turned 30."
Dennis VanDyke
Creative
"Gained 5 pounds working on a weight loss client. And no, Dick Van Dyke is not my Dad."
Jiro Feingold
Technology
"My name means 'second son'. But I'm still the cooler one."
Erik Olson
Client Services
"I walked the Great Wall of China. And I had a mullet. But not at the same time."
Becca Ward
Creative
"If I can kayak it, climb it or hike it, I'm happy in the extreme [sports]."
Jenny Stalder
Strategy
"I had the world's best banana lassi in India. Though my toes were webbed way before that."
Tim Krajcar
Technology
"Fastest typist, and slap shot, in the office."
The secret to great creative? 1% inspiration then 99% honing it to perfection.
Julie Eggers
Creative
"I love nature, film, music, satire, and four-word bios."
Travis Watkins
Client Services
"I can eat 50 eggs."
Kara Goldhamer
Strategy
"I have a small farm. Er, large garden (5,000 sq. ft.)."
Kathy Wu
Creative
"If there's dancing or solitude on the calendar, I'm in."
Jeremiah Radka
Technology
"I rode a Honda CBR600 F3 at 110 mph in the 1/4-mile at PIR raceway. Just sayin'."
Amy Conroy
Client Services
"I'll eat figs and goat cheese for breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snacks."
Shannon Mooney
Client Services
"I've lived in Windsor next door to that lady in Buckingham Palace."
Kory Paulsen
Technology
"I maintain a pretty trick slime farm in the game Minecraft."
Susan Hawkins
Management
"I rode all the way across the USA on my bike."
Do all you can to get audiences to embrace a brand, and clients will embrace you.
Ziggy Kopetti
Client Services
"I danced competitively for eight years. But not with my 75-lb. bulldog, Hamlet."
Jason Lucey
Strategy
"I can cook and take pictures at the same time."
Steve Schneider
Client Services
"I've tried, but nothing fools my two 6.5-yr-old twin daughters."
Janet VanDyke
Client Services
"The only Portlander who doesn’t like beer. There, I said it!"
Terri Sprinkling
Management
"I've held a wild hummingbird in my hand. Then I flew away."
Steve Marshall
Management
"I speak Japanese, play golf, and make art out of old yard sticks and rulers."
Kaci Freeman
Client Services
"I really do NOT like to be told 'no'. Especially when shoe-shopping."