Welcome to McQuillen Interactive
McQuillen Interactive is an interactive design company. We use interactive design to make complex things clear. We specialize in tools for visualizing data from simulations (such as building energy performance modeling with EnergyPlus) or educating users through interactive presentations.
Our end goal is to make information come alive by clarifying and activating relevant data. We accomplish this goal by applying technology thoughtfully and deliberately.
Our Services
We create applications, educational multimedia, and intuitive graphics that illustrate complex systems. Our main tools are Adobe Flash and Flex.
In a nutshell, our services include:
- AIR desktop applications
- Flex and Flash Applications
- e-Learning Interactions
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
NextSpace, Suite 244
101 Cooper St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
email: info at mcquilleninteractive dot com
tel: +1.831.440.8744
Latest News
COMFEN Alpha coming soon...
June 28, 2008 -- Santa Cruz
Alpha version! We are working with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) to release an alpha version of COMFEN3 in the next few weeks. COMFEN3 is the simulation application we built for LBNL using Adobe AIR and EnergyPlus. It's a graphically rich desktop application for architects and engineers who want an easy way of creating complex glazing systems and comparing their energy performance. The project is on-time and on-budget and LBNL is very happy with the app.
Read more about the COMFEN project >>
COMFEN on track
Jan 16, 2008 -- Santa Cruz
McQuillen Interactive is hard at work with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs on an exciting new version of COMFEN, an energy performance tool for early stage building design. Built with Adobe Flex/AIR, COMFEN uses EnergyPlus to provide energy simulations of single-zone scenarios. Watch this space for more information in the coming months.
Ahh...NextSpace
Dec 1, 2008 -- Santa Cruz
McQuillen Interactive is now part of the new co-working space, NextSpace, here in downtown SantaCruz. There's no better place to meet and interact with the sharpest minds and coolest companies in the area. Plus, we're right next door to Pete's Coffee.
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.
MotionStrand Touchscreen for ALoft Hotels
Sept 30, 2008 -- Santa Cruz
McQuillen Interactive recently teamed up with Flash design studio MotionStrand to produce a touchscreen kiosk for ALoft Hotels. The touchscreen is live in the Arkansas-based ALoft hotel lobby, helping customers access weather, flight and attraction information.
We used Adobe AIR, Flex, AS3.0 and Cairngorm to build the touchscreen application, integrating ALoft's design and content and communicating with various web services. In addition to making the whole thing "go," we tied in an XML feed of local airport flight information from FlightStats, an interactive map with local points of interest, an up-to-date weather forecast screen, and a custom CMS created by ALoft.
Learn HVAC
Aug 2, 2008 -- Santa Cruz
Joe Deringer of SU-PER-B presented the current state of the Learn HVAC project to the participants of the SimBuild 2008 conference last week in Berkeley. Interest was high and the audience seemed to really like the application. We plan on releasing a new client in a few weeks.
Read more about the Learn HVAC project >>