About Us

Terabyte in one sentence: We design & build beautiful, usable, and accessible websites, interfaces, and applications - and we love doing it.

We're a group of designers, coders, project managers, and communicators who spend a lot of time online and are very passionate about the Internet. We're basically a big bunch of nerds, but for the most part it's more the well dressed, intriguingly hot librarian with huge glasses type of nerd than the balding, slightly clammy, no concept of personal space nerd (although we can regress on occasion, especially some of the coders).

We've been at the forefront of New Zealand digital design since the early 90's, and have a long list of local and international clients who have worked with us and loved the solutions we've developed. Our range of experience is huge - we've worked on everything from corporate sites for some of NZ's biggest companies to touchscreen kiosks, online games to museum exhibitions. We take the time to understand your audience, and work hard to ensure that they understand what you're trying to impart to them.

We work out of our stylishly appointed new office in Auckland's Parnell, where the good sushi joints are just up the road, but far enough that we're not in there every single day. We have a mint coffee machine that gets a looooot of use. We have a huge MP3 server providing in office sounds. We have a cute little deck to drink beers on (and from which to search for random naked people in the apartments opposite).

We're easy to talk to, easy to work with, we love the Internet, and we drink too much coffee - and that's who we are.

What We Do

The long answer can be found on Our Services page, but the short answer is - everything required to ensure your project is a success. Services we provide include:

• Requirements Scoping
• Information Architecture & Business Analysis
• Interface Design
• Brand Design
• Interaction Design & Rich Media
• Standards compliant XHTML & CSS
• Development
• Content Management System ( CMS ) Integration
• Content Development & Management
• Hosting

So as you can see, we've got it pretty well covered.

The Terabyte Team

At Terabyte we love to explore, which sometimes means sending Our People underneath the surface - never alone though. Under the watchful eye of Doug, and our ideas guy Steve, we work together to harness and steer all the great solutions that Jane has already promised - all only with slightly big heads :)

Key People

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  Jane - Client Services Director

  Jane joined Terabyte from an advertising background and is now the Client Services Director at Terabyte responsible for client and sales relationships and servicing.

  Over the last 7 years Jane has successfully brought in and delivered some of Terabyte's largest projects and has expanded Terabyte's business into overseas markets. Her most notable wins have been securing two very large projects (beating out stiff international competition) for HSBC Global, both of which are highly acclaimed and were delivered on time and within budget.

  In her role of Client Services Director, Jane's contribution is one of communication consultancy, workshop facilitation, information architecture and overall project sponsorship - ensuring that the communication objectives of our customers are met and that the Terabyte promises made in pitch are delivered and customer expectations are exceeded. Jane is also ultimately responsible for all aspects of delivery and the ongoing company commitment to our client's projects.

  Prior to joining the advertising industry, then Terabyte, Jane was a Product Manager for a Pharmaceutical company and completed a BSc in Genetics.

  To get in touch with Jane email jane {at} terabyte.co.nz

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  Doug - Managing Director

  Doug leads Terabyte as our Managing Director. With over 25 years experience in the IT industry Doug is passionate about software development and utilising the web for business, communication, networking and entertainment and he loves to get involved with our more challenging projects.

  As our business leader he focuses on maintaining a culture of hard work, absolute integrity, going the extra mile for our clients, continuous improvement of business processes, team encouragement and up-skilling, sound financial management and exploring new, better, faster ways of delivering web solutions to our clients.

  A love of photography and sport has Doug supporting his sons participating in Taekwon-do which includes annual trips to the world champs and world cup as official NZ team photographer. His photoblog is at www.hanna.net.nz

  To get in touch with Doug email doug {at} terabyte.co.nz

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  Steve - Creative Director

  Steve is responsible for managing our studio talent and taking creative ownership (and the kudos) on all Terabyte Projects. Being part of the online industry since it was in nappies, Steve has received local and international accolades for his engaging and unique design and ideas. His wide range of experience has included working for Conde Nast Publications in the United Kingdom as Art Director for the online sites of British Vogue, GQ, Glamour, CN Traveller, Vanity Fair and undertaking projects for Chanel and Givenchy.

  Steve is highly involved with a number of educational institutes helping in the development of online studies and his latest adventure sees him residing as the Interactive Council member for DINZ (Designers Institute of New Zealand). Steve believes that Design and Functionality can live harmoniously together and that the Red Hot Chili Peppers are a terrible, terrible band.

  To get in touch with Steve email steve {at} terabyte.co.nz

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  The Team - Everybody Else ;)

  At Terabyte we work hard to attract and retain the best talent in our industry. We encourage our team members to stretch themselves and each other through regular reviews and project team work. We work hard to encourage innovation, share new stuff, and to have fun working on wicked projects. As a result, many of our people have been with the company for a long time. But we don't get stale with time passing. We focus on getting better and better and leveraging our experience over many very exciting projects and reflecting this in the work that we do every day.

  To get in touch with Terabyte email info {at} terabyte.co.nz

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