Haws Interactive (H.i.) is a full-service interactive & digital production firm, located just south of Dallas, Texas, delivering a wide array of interactive services and media platforms: applications (web-based, kiosk, digital signage, touch screen, offline, and stand-alone desktop applications), websites, microsites, mobile experiences, portals, games, entertainment, edutainment, social media, brand development and marketing, and interfaces (both 2D and 3D) for just about any type of project imaginable.
Hi's goal is to produce and deliver visually compelling and engaging interactive experiences through the perfect blend of design and technology. Throughout the entire design and development process, information architecture, usability studies, interactive design, creative, visual design, and style guides are all part of the project's workflow and lifecycle.
Hi'sproven and historically successful strategic business model along with 14 years of refined disciplines in the interactive/digital space creates a near perfect working condition for achieving clients' goals and deadlines in a deliberate, organized, and reliable manner. This allows Hi to follow through on its commitments and take every aspect of a project's obligations seriously.
Hiespecially thrives with new developmental and technological challenges, ever changing technologies and adapts its progressive, creative environment of like-minded, team-driven professionals to every project. Whether it is the conceptual, creative, design, development, or production side of a project, Hi's passion is to exceed clients' expectations through implementing cutting edge technology, software, functionality, interactivity, and lasting impressions.
MySQL: We leverage MySQL, the world's most popular open-source database for the majority of our clients' projects, which provides a comprehensive offering of database integration tools for their websites to deliver optimal performance, reliability, security, and uptime.
Illustrator: We use Adobe Illustrator for our comprehensive vector graphics creation environment that invites our clients to explore more creative and efficient ways to represent their design campaigns across all industry segments. We have a unique hybrid workflow for Flash and Illustrator that allows us to create crystal-clear visuals and text for use with our clients' interactive/digital presentation.
Nuendo: We use Nuendo for our clients' advanced audio and visual post production needs, which delivers a next-generation production environment for audio post, studio production and live recording for integration in their projects. We have a fully operational 128 track digital recording facility with exceptional power, flexibility and speed, for providing recording, mixing, editing and sound design workflows at an unprecedented level.
After Effects: We create compelling motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects with hundreds of After Effects tools and plugins (along with workflows utilizing Autodesk Maya and Discreet Combustion) that help to deliver unparalleled creative presentation for our clients' videos, animations, broadcast spots, and any other type of presentation.
Dreamweaver: We use Dreamweaver to design, develop, and maintain standards-based non-Flash websites and web-based applications for our clients. Leveraging Dreamweaver correctly incorporates their content with other custom authoring tools and content management systems throughout the entire design and development process.
PHP: Our server side scripting language of choice is PHP, a widely-used general-purpose open-source scripting language, that is especially suited for web development (front and back end) that can be embedded into HTML and also serve as the backbone for Flash, Flex, and AIR runtime web services remoting integrations.
AIR: We design, create, develop, and deploy proven web technologies and applications with Adobe AIR runtime. We build rich internet applications for our clients that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems, including touch screens, kiosks, and digital signage. These media platforms engage their customers with innovative, branded applications, without requiring changes to existing technology, people, or processes.
PhotoShop: Our photo manipulation software of choice is the Adobe Photoshop family of products, which provides our clients with the ultimate playground for bringing out the best of their digital images, graphics, illustrations, and transforming them into anything they can imagine for their interactive and digital initiatives. We can do just about anything imaginable with Adobe Photoshop.
Maya: Our primary 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects software is Autodesk Maya Unlimited, which provides our clients with the same technology and abilities seen in blockbuster computer generated movies on the big screen, and at a fraction of the cost comparable to the typical special FX shop. We specialize in creating 2D/3D content using Autodesk Maya across the integration workflows of Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR software technologies.
Soundbooth: We use Adobe Soundbooth to create and polish audio, customize music, add sound effects, and refine our audio/visual pre- and post-production pipelines with unsurpassed quality, recording, and sampling. Adobe Soundbooth used also in conjunction with Steinberg's Wavelab audio mastering suite, is what adds that final professional touch to the audio incorporated into our clients' projects.
Premiere Pro: We use Sony's 1080i High Definition video recording equipment and Adobe Premiere Pro for start-to-finish video pre- and post-production including on location real-time recording using Adobe OnLocation and Adobe Encore software technologies. Editing, mastering, and producing HD quality video for broadcast, film, web, and offline multimedia is just another of our masterful specialties.
InDesign: We us Adobe InDesign for our clients' publishing and print endeavors because their business depends on efficiency, compelling content, competitiveness through design, and high-quality output in print and interactive/digital media. InDesign was our choice for publishing software for the book titled Flash AS3 for Interactive Agencies that was published in 2009.
Flex: We use Adobe Flex, a highly productive framework for building and maintaining expressive web-based applications that deploy consistently for our clients on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. For some our clients, we produce incredible stand-alone Flex applications with Adobe AIR and Flash for use with touch screens, kiosks, desktop, and digital signage.
Visual Basic: Our software developers use the Microsoft Visual Studio development system and its comprehensive suite of tools to create innovative, next-generation applications, installers, deployments, and web utilities and services. For our touch screen, kiosks, desktop, and digital signage applications, we use Visual Basic to create the perfect software application integration for deploying Flex, AIR, and Flash applications across Windows operating systems.
JavaScript: We use JavaScript for the majority of client side scripting, particularly incorporating asynchronous JavaScript and XML bundled with PHP web and Flash remoting services to create interactive web applications that are no longer paged based in architecture and use many modern Web 2.0 techniques and mechanisms for controlling and displaying various portions of web content.
(1) While under the employ or contract of one or more of the following companies: Zion Success Network, Zion Studios, Dallas Midwest, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., DFW Studios, Inc., PC Records & Productions, Bowne Business Solutions, Tribal DDB, The Marketing Arm, Blockdot, IMC2, Brand Hatchery, Abstract Device, Tracey Locke, Davie Brown, InSite, Integer, TM, RAPP, Boxcar, Dieste, Haws Design, Haws Media, Haws Interactive.
