Welcome to McQuillen Interactive
McQuillen Interactive is an interactive design company. We use interactive design to make complex things clear.
We can help in these kinds of situations:
- You want a usable and efficient application to help your users complete complex tasks
- You want to demonstrate visually how something works
- You need to visualize a lot of data
- You want to educate users through interactive simulations
- You want a desktop application that's easy to install, easy to use and easy to run on Mac, Windows and Linux
Our Services
We build desktop and web applications with Adobe Flash, Flex and Ruby on Rails.
- 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:
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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.
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Ted Chira-Chavala, Ph.D.
Manager, ITS
University of California, Berkeley
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Contact
McQuillen Interactive
email: info at mcquilleninteractive dot com
tel: 510.717.2602
Latest News
COMFEN v3.1 ready for public beta
July 15, 2010 -- Santa Cruz
McQuillen Interactive has been hard at work for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL) as the application designer and programmer for COMFEN3, a single-zone energy simulation tool. In just a few weeks, LBNL will be releasing version 3.1 to the public.
We're excited to be a part of the LBNL team as they bring this helpful application to architects and engineers interested in energy-efficient design.
We created COMFEN3 using Adobe AIR™ 2.0 and Flex 3.5.
Read more about COMFEN >>
Learn HVAC version 2.0 in Alpha
July 15, 2010 -- Santa Cruz
We continue to partner with Berkeley-based Su-Per-B to build the Learn HVAC application, an interactive simulation tool for HVAC students.
Currently, we're adding a host of new features to greatly enhance the tool's simulation power, including EnergyPlus integration for annual performance and Modelica-based simulations for real-time performance.
These features will soon be available in the upcoming Learn HVAC version 2.0 release
SimpleDiagrams Featured on Mashables
July 15, 2010 -- Santa Cruz
SimpleDiagrams, a productivity tool created by McQuillen Interactive, was featured in "10 Free Wireframing Tools for Designers" by Mashable.com.
Read more at http://mashable.com/2010/07/15/wireframing-tools/






