Sakuzaku is a Honolulu-based software engineering and usability consultancy with a focus on fast, sleek, and modern Ruby on Rails and Web 2.0 applications and services. We make usable websites and make websites usable.

What We Can Do For You

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End-to-End Website Development

Ruby on Rails logoWe specialize in design of web applications with a focus on improving user-experience to transparently promote client goals, through elegant, effective, and eminently usable websites.

A screenshot of Ruby on Rails codeRails Consulting

With clients in Honolulu, Tokyo, and around the world, Sakuzaku delivers consulting and guidance for businesses with teams developing their own apps. While our specialty is Ruby on Rails, our generality is web applications — we have extensive experience working with PHP and other leading platforms. See our Services page to find out more.

We develop and design elegant, effective, and eminently usable software — and help your team do the same.

Usability Engineering and Review

Making money starts with making your software work for the user. And interfaces designed by a software engineer will almost certainly not meet this thorny criteria. But we understand that sometimes that’s just the way it goes. That’s why we provide review for existing apps as well as direction for projects just getting off the ground.

Essays on Usability and Design

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New Windows in Safari Touch: A Proposal

Browsing the web on the iPhone is great — page scaling works wonderfully with the high-resolution screen, and Safari Touch is well-designed and makes reading in bed or on the bus a breeze. But there's one thing that irks me: no easy way to open a link in a new window.

Making better use of iPhone’s multitouch.

Making better use of iPhone’s multitouch. Read more…

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