ZURB

ZURB is a privately held interaction design company based in Campbell, California, United States. The firm was founded in 1998 by Chief Instigator Bryan Zmijewski as a strategy and interaction design consulting firm which helps companies create better products & services through consulting, products, education, training and events.^[1]

History

Since 1998, ZURB has designed sites including eBay, Facebook, Photobucket, NYSE, and ClickTracks, which was purchased by J.L. Halsey (now known as Lyris HQ).^[2] In 2004, ZURB helped design Zazzle’s web-based apparel and stamp design tools. In 2007, ZURB helped design and launch Britney Spears’s comeback website.

Recently, ZURB has worked with a variety of high-profile startup companies, including Intuit, Walmart, eBay, Facebook, Yahoo!, Vevo, Cisco, Fox Racing, Orange, Equinix, McAfee, Dun & Bradstreet and VMware.

ZURB has helped more than 250 startups generate more than $1.6 billion in exits. Notable exits include DemandForce, Terracotta, Felix, Clicktrax and Outright, among others.

Products

In September, 2009 ZURB launched its first web-based application called Notable.^[3] The primary goal of Notable is to give people a simple way to provide feedback on websites and iPhone applications. Notable allows people to capture the visual, code, and copy portions of any website, annotate these captures, and share them with their team and collaborators. Notable iPhone app allows users to screen capture any application, upload it to Notable for annotation and share the feedback with others.^[4][5][6] Since then, ZURB has launched other design products, such as Verify,^[7] Influence,^[8] Plunk,^[9] Foundation, and others.

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