Welcome to McQuillen Interactive

McQuillen Interactive is an interactive design company. We use interactive design to make complex things clear.

Here's some examples of how we can help you:

  • You want a special kind of interactive tool that helps your uses complete complex tasks
  • You need to visualize a lot of data
  • You want to demonstrate visually how something works
  • You want to educate users through multimedia and simulations
  • You want a web application that does more than the average form
  • You want a desktop application that's easy to install, easy to use and easy to run on Mac, Windows and Linux

Ultimately, our end goal is to help you make information come alive.


Our Services

We build desktop and web applications built with Adobe Flash, Flex and Ruby on Rails. We build:

  • Desktop applications in Adobe AIR for Mac, Linux and Windows
  • Web-applications in Adobe Flex and Flash
  • Interactive presentations
  • E-Learning simulations

We handle each phase of development, including:

  • Requirements gathering and user interviews
  • UI design
  • Application design
  • Application development
  • Usability testing

We like to work iteratively and encourage our clients to take this development approach.

We provide these services with a concern for quality, an attention to detail, and a sense of humor.


Our Clients

Our clients deserve usable, efficient and effective solutions to their interactive problems. We don't disappoint. Here's what one client had to say about our work:

The software completed by Mr. McQuillen was sophisticated, user-friendly, and met all aspects of our training needs very well. Perhaps the most impressive work aspect was that Mr. McQuillen could complete such a complex, user-friendly software for us in such a relatively short time frame -- he met our tight deadline admirably! I am very pleased to recommend McQuillen Interactive for any interactive design projects, large and small.

Ted Chira-Chavala, Ph.D.
Manager, ITS
University of California, Berkeley

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Contact

McQuillen Interactive
823 Cowper St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301

email: info at mcquilleninteractive dot com
tel: 510.488.3935

Latest News

COMFEN v3 ready for public beta

Nov 10, 2009 -- Santa Cruz

COMFEN v3, the application we built for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL) has been released for public beta. We created COMFEN using Adobe AIR™.

COMFEN screenshot

LBNL has extended our contract in order to create some great new functionality that will make the tool even more useful for architects and designers who want to create building energy simulations quickly. Read more about COMFEN >>

McQuillen Interactive releases SimpleDiagrams

Nov 1, 2009 -- Santa Cruz

McQuillen Interactive released a simple and easy-to-use diagramming application for public use. The application, called SimpleDiagrams, is available in a Free Version and a Full Version ($19).

SimpleDiagrams screenshot

Find out more at http://www.simplediagrams.com

It's also featured on the Adobe AIR marketplace.

LiftAgency hires McQuillen Interactive

Nov 6, 2009 -- Santa Cruz

Foster-city based LiftAgency has hired McQuillen Interactive to create an Adobe AIR™ application for their Fortune 500 client. The application filters raw data into an easy-to-use interactive display.

Learn HVAC now open source!

Sept 17, 2009 -- Santa Cruz

In partnership with The Institute for Superior Performance in Buildings (SU-PER-B) and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, we're proud to release the Learn HVAC codebase to the public under an open source license. You can now download the code for both the client application and server application, both of which are released under the Open Software License version 3.0.

McQuillen Interactive is continuing to work closely with SU-PER-B to make Learn HVAC accessible to community colleges throughout the country, helping to train a new generation of engineers on energy efficiency concepts in building HVAC systems.

Lawrence Berkeley Labs hires McQuillen Interactive

October 15, 2008 -- Santa Cruz

Renowned research institution Lawrence Berkeley National Labs recently hired McQuillen Interactive to produce custom software for their Building Technologies Group. We're working together with top building scientists to create software for designing energy-efficient buildings.

As the key designer and developer on the team, McQuillen Interactive furthers its goal of becoming a trusted resource in the world of energy-efficiency software and green building technologies. We'll be using our top-notch skills in user interface design, usability analysis, software design and Adobe Flex programming.