The key is officially in the ignition… our v2.0 site has been up since 2008 and is in need of a facelift. The saying “A cobbler’s shoes are never mended” couldn’t be more true for us.

We’re fortunate to work on leading technologies and provide innovative design solutions for our clients, but somehow never get around to reflecting our own value in our site design. We’re proud to announce that the end to this is closing in. We have the wireframes spread out and have started early draft visual concepts…

Features we look forward to sharing with you:

• Responsive design templates
• Clean minimalist design
• 960 grid
• Content relevance architecture
• Social feeds

There’s a wish list of other items, but that’ll get thins started on the right track. Stay tuned for the unveiling an an invite to our (TBD) launch party.

The results for the Mission Small Business grant awards have been announced. While we all had our fingers crossed that we could use this post to share the good news with you that Limina is throttling the FTL drive, it seems that we’re going to keep the bootstraps fastened for a little while longer.

The following 12 small businesses have been awarded $250,000 each:

• Bright Power, New York, NY – brightpower.com
• Ellessco LLC, Ventura, CA – vinnibag.com
• Skillastics®, Corona, CA – skillastics.com
• Carmin Industries, Jacksonville, AL – carminservices.com
• Lasher Sport, Anchorage, AK – lashersport.com
• The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen™, San Francisco, CA – americansf.com
• Didrick Medical, Naples, FL – didrickmedical.com
• PlanetReuse®, Kansas City, MO – planetreuse.com
• UsedCardboardBoxes.com, Los Angeles, CA – usedcardboardboxes.com
• EcoScraps, Provo, UT – ecoscraps.com
• RonWear Port-able Clothing®, Beachwood, OH – ronwear.com
• Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream, Brooklyn, NY – vanleeuwenicecream.com

We send congratulations to this diverse group of businesses! You can view their profiles here.

We’re all a little bummed out that Limina or any other local DC Tech and Small Business scene didn’t make the cut. Players like iStrategy Labs and Tech Cocktail who have made massive contributions to the vibrancy of DC’s entrepreneurial life blood would have made statement had they earned a seat on this award. We look forward to further opportunities to inject interest in DC’s growing creative tech scene.

In the mean time DC Week 2012 promisses to draw more attention in the coming months.

The Limina team still has huge plans that were crystalized on our grant application – we intend to carry them out. Stay tuned for the next post for more info on what’s coming up next!

A Vote for Limina is a Vote for Small Business Growth and Job Creation

Limina is entering the Chase and LivingSocial “Mission Small Business” Grant Award competition for $250k. Lend your vote to give a Small UX Business a shot at creating more jobs and for UX Professionals and a better standard of excellence for UX efficiency and sustainability.

Show us your support by voting for us: 
https://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/

1) Log in using your FaceBook ID (for real user validation purposes only)
2) Type: “limina” in the business name search field.
3) Click Vote – thats it!

Limina has been in business for 9 year and has survived two very challenging economic down turns that threatened close our doors. But the courage and conviction of the company principals, the belief in the quality of our user centered design services and our mission to make software, web and mobile interface design more amazing, intuitive and elegant has kept us going strong.

As a business, we have great ambitions to grow our practice to scale to the pace of technology innovations and software, web & mobile application development as well as bring a new and innovative approach to UX requirements gathering, experience modeling, design iteration and deployment to the next level.

This grant award would help give us the runway we need to shift into higher gears. We aim to hire as many UX professionals that want to join us in this mission and help create more jobs for creative technologists and build tools to make the work we do faster, more valuable, and sustainable.

Who’s with us? Give us your vote today, tell your friends, tell your families… the future is now. (Thank you in advance for your much needed support!).