About Yellow Pencil
Helping you get better at the web one problem at a time. Web strategy, user experience, web design, development, and hosting–built just for you.
Yellow Pencil Description
Hi! We're Yellow Pencil.
We've been in business since 1996, working with big (and big-ish) organizations all over North America. What do they have in common? They're doing something bold: changing how they work and communicate online.
We focus on cities and governments, transportation and transit, financial services, and post-secondary education.
We'll work with you to find the right mix of services for your needs. We do interaction design, user experience (UX) design, content strategy, CMS development, hosting, support, and more.
Over the years we've become experts in four core content management technologies: OpenText Web Site Management, Drupal, Oracle WebCenter, and Ingeniux.
Our projects go through our patented (okay, not exactly patented) Yellow Pencil 4D Process. We get to know you through our lean discovery process, then get to work in iterative, agile design and development teams.
Reviews
Security is a big deal for us. Our customers rely on us to keep our game high. Here are some recent security stories from around the web. http://ow.ly/uG2s30hnC6F
We're 100% for net neutrality and hope it becomes a campaign issue in the US as well as here at home in Canada. http://ow.ly/y7Ao30hnC6D
Hottest thing in design in 2017? It's IKEA according to http://ow.ly/p30230hnC6y. http://ow.ly/wBok30hnC6z
Sure Facebook can recognize your face. So can your dog, probably (we're no dog scientists, but it seems truthy). But can Facebook tell me when I have jam on my face? http://ow.ly/qSxn30hnC6u
Converse goes waterproof thanks to our new client Gore. Our #YEG office shrugs and pulls on Sorels while our #YVR office applauds and heads out for a walk in the rain. http://ow.ly/sohh30hnC6B
Top 12 things you may have missed that Google did in 2017. http://ow.ly/7Hdg30hnC6J
Quick guide to reduce security risks online. We have now changed all our admin passwords to "p@ssword". See you in the new year! http://ow.ly/RXBq30hnC6W
Between our friends at the Canadian Digital Service killing it and Canada announcing a renewed commitment to open source, 2018 is looking up! http://ow.ly/weF230hnC6T
Our new personal device security policy rolls out next month at Yellow Pencil. Here's some advice from Google on how enterprises could do the same. http://ow.ly/14Uu30hnC6M
Frankly, we're kinda excited for a product called "AmazonTube". We also suggest Amazon-mart (with or without hyphen), Uberzon, McAmazon, Amazoogle… http://ow.ly/iJ6F30hnC6s
As dedicated nerds, we're happy to see tennis beat football as the top global search for sports in Google's 2017 Trends rollup. http://ow.ly/bxDk30hnC6I
Hi Internet! As of noon today in each of our time zones, we're drifting off to the Land of Nog. Please use normal channels for any urgent issues, we'll be watching. But we may be delayed in our response. Thanks for 2017!
We avoid making fun of humans who can't work technology because it's all of us at some point. But if you can't help yourself then here's something to read on your last day before winter holidays. You can say it's work related. http://ow.ly/yXQc30hnC6r
Urgent PSA. This is more time sensitive than * nog or Cadbury Easter Creme Eggs. Kellogg's Unicorn Cereal on limited availablity. http://ow.ly/mukg30hnC6x
Apple's best apps of 2017. I guess "My Little Pony: Magic Princess" only made our list… http://ow.ly/uOnW30hnC6w
Super proud to announce the Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan website. We might have even learned a thing or two
Our bad ass t-shirts, created by our resident bad ass Lauren Achtem http://ow.ly/BS9130cwBSf, in flight.
Our new t-shirts are in and we look great in them!
Yellowpencil grand puba Dave Bellous is demo'ing content audit tool Flock for and hosting a panel discussion about the content challenges that in-house teams face. Bring all your http://ow.ly/XjNK30bh78P content strategy questions! http://ow.ly/nTQY30bh7bf