Ueno Playground
A place where the good people of Ueno show you internal projects that they are playing around with. From the small to the big, the ridiculous to the semi-useful.
Latest projects
It's the “conference” we always wanted to attend, but never found. So we decided to put it on ourselves.
We called an old friend to help us celebrate our fifth birthday. He’s scary and wonderful. He’s beautiful and awful. He puts the pro in pro bono, the the free in freelance, and the no in Ueno. He’s Tory Satins, and he’ll “Always Be Around.”
Big Projects 100 hours or more
It's the “conference” we always wanted to attend, but never found. So we decided to put it on ourselves.
Digital is nice, but sometimes you just need a place to sit. That’s why Ueno's first physical object is a little stool we’re calling Kollur. Coming soon to a floor near you.
Our culture is unique. Or we think so at least. And so we created this game. Or sort of a game? Chatbot maybe? Anyway, it’s a thing we made.
We really like React. We use it to build a lot of the things we develop. And just in case you want to use it too we have an open source starter kit on GitHub.
Bueno is where we help great people do great things. We give away our time, ideas as well as good old hard cash to all sorts of causes and people.
Things. You never have enough and you take them with you when you die. And so, we created a store where we curate some of them for you to buy.
There are a lot of very nice things out there that we didn't make. Surprising, we know. While you wait for more Ueno goodness you should check this out.
Branding yourself is no laughing matter. For that matter It's more of a crying matter. But we did it and we survived and now we have this brand that matters.
Medium Projects 40-100 hours
We called an old friend to help us celebrate our fifth birthday. He’s scary and wonderful. He’s beautiful and awful. He puts the pro in pro bono, the the free in freelance, and the no in Ueno. He’s Tory Satins, and he’ll “Always Be Around.”
Managing and debugging Tween and Timeline in GSAP is a hassle, even with the official dev tools. So we created GsapTools, an extension that makes it all so much easier.
One of our values is to Bring the Chocolate. It means that we want to go above and beyond. But we also take it quite literally so we made some real chocolates.
We love building apps so we created iOS and Android versions of Ueno.design. The apps were build by our fantastic devs using our starter kit.
We asked our video team to show how our people collaborate to make the things we make. They created this enjoyable little video.
We teamed up with Designer Fund and Heather Phillips to create a tool to help design teams figure out how they compare to other teams and where they should improve.
Opening a new tab used to be so boring. But with the dot design chrome extension it's slightly less boring. Fanfare!
When a Nueno joins the team our People Experience teams work with our AV Club to take their official Ueno Portrait. We've collected a few of them on our Instagram.
Using custom built LED lights, some Arduino magic and even some IOT gadgetry we built a sign for our office that can take on any light we can think of.
Small Projects 1-40 hours
A year ago we asked you for the best advice anyone had ever given you. Something that changed your life for the better. This is what you told us.
Our A/V Club whipped up this video to show the day in the life of a designer before he joins Ueno. Or maybe it's a day in the life after they join Ueno?
Do you spend your days, nights, evenings, mornings, brunches and so on missing the good 'ol days of MS Paint? We do too. But have no fear, Ueno Paint is here.
To ring in the new year we bought some billboard space by SFO and put up some fairly random messages. Truck Fump anyone?
Our People Experience team want to make sure that each person that joins feels special. As a tiny and silly example of that we created these Hot Dog pins for our Nuenos.
We have some great artwork that we’ve made with our collaborators these last couple of years. And since we love to write we made some nice looking notebooks.
We like to create custom swag to give to our people and clients and friends and family and people we meet and people we don't meet. This notebook is one of those.
Want to put a nice wallpaper on your phone or computer? No? Well, we weren't expecting that answer. But in case you change your mind we made some for you.