Scott Holmes
Managing Partner
Scott is the acting visionary and business strategist. His entrepreneurial practice of finding innovative ways to drive value is evident in the team he has assembled.
United Future is a multidisciplinary digital agency united around one simple idea: design the future
PHONE CALL FROM SATAN
United Future launches a diabolical project for TBS
In launching the new animated series “Neighbors From Hell,” TBS wanted to create some disruptive online promotions. The Phone Call From Satan idea was designed to encourage users to send a custom message to their friends’ phones, congratulating them on the underhanded deeds that they have done. In the first week, usage doubled day over day, and more than 30,000 customized messages were sent, much to the amusement of fans and the network.
EPSON ‘MOVIE NIGHT’ A SMASHING SUCCESS
Backyard barbecue never looked so good
The Epson “Great American Movie Night” campaign wrapped over Memorial Day weekend. The six-week campaign, promoting the Epson MovieMate 60 projector, was aimed at getting friends and families together to watch movies in the great outdoors.
The campaign consisted of online banners, search, a Facebook fan page and a Twitter feed that all drove to the microsite. Once at the site, users could learn more about hosting their own movie night and register to win an Epson MovieMate 60 projector and a $2,500 backyard theater makeover. The campaign outperformed all projected metrics by 266%, and had more than 28,000 entrants in just six short weeks. Sweepstakes submissions resulted in seven projector winners and one lucky recipient of a backyard makeover.
SOLUTIONS
Many strengths. One vision.
Technology
Systems Integration & Management
No longer can you separate technology from marketing.
• Platforms
• eCommerce & fulfillment
• Content management (CMS) / Web publishing
• Consumer relations (CRM) integration
• Disciplines
• Application Development
• Systems architecture & database design
• Software quality assurance (SQA)
• Cloud hosting & Management
WORK
Big brands. Big ideas.
LEADERSHIP
Individual in expertise. United in purpose.
Chris Jacobs
Executive Creative Director
Chris and his crew of experience designers are tasked with creating interface 'directional' design that is fluid in practice. Turning vision into reality and actions into art, experience designers create a positive first impression that keeps delivering over time.
Kris Matheney
Director of Operations and Client Services
Kris is at the heart of the company and manages the fiduciary responsibility, including the day-to-day discipline of project management and setting the proper course for delivery. Her team has the ultimate task of delivering on time, on budget and on target.
Marc Johnson
Director of Experience Strategy
Marc is responsible for the overall conceptual interpretation of content structure, interaction and user behavior. His passionate team of strategists, experience architects, analysts and behavioral scientists are mapping out the next generation of interactive brand experiences, applications, and targeted campaigns.
Erik Kellener
Chief Technology Officer
Erik leads our technology team whose mission is to deliver flexible environments that meet business objectives, scale for demand, and measure actionable business intelligence to accelerate sales and increase margins.
Josh Brantley
Creative Director
Josh is based in our Seattle office and leads our creative services for United Future. Working with WONGDOODY, our corporate parent, Josh is tasked with being the visionary for interactive marketing services and managing brand communications and social media.
Jeremy Fisher
Director of Production
Jeremy is based in our Seattle office and manages all aspects of client delivery and internal resourcing. He has also been known to teach a few traditional account folks the difference between HTML5 and actionscripting.
Lorenzo Gonzalez
Senior System Architect
Lorenzo is an experienced senior engineer who manages and maintains the highest standard of core development. He and his team frame the building blocks of each system and develop a scalable, extensible path to completion.
Thomas Heo
User Experience Manager
Thomas manages our experience architecture practice and institutes a combination of common sensibility, analytical research and proven process. His team works with the strategy group, designers and engineers to map out the most direct path toward achieving the audience objectives.
UF LABS
Designing the future.
Tory Burch
An experiment in mobile technology, this application allows the user to shop and purchase products in a simple and easy-to-use interface.
And the best part about this application is that while it's custom-designed for the iPhone, it's not an application, but an HTML-based website using browser detection. Mobile applications can be simplified in this way, lowering development time and costs.
Vertical Farming
Born out of an advertising concept to promote big ideas, the Vertical Farm design we created has opened doors and minds to the possibility of really creating a farming industry in overcrowded urban environments.
The vertical farm design concept developed by United Future led to some of the leading environmental scientists in the country contacting us. They confirmed that the wind-powered heating system combined with hydroponic farming technology might just be the key to making this design a feasible reality. The vertical farm has been published in more than 50 magazines and newspapers worldwide, and is currently under consideration at several institutions dedicated to making the world a better place.
Chatme.tv
Today's television viewer is more evolved than ever. We don't just watch TV anymore; we multi-task and communicate with each other in order to enhance our viewing experiences.
ChatMeTV is a new concept in live chat, which allows users to find their favorite shows and chat with other viewers while the show is on. Since a recent report showed that 60% of Americans are using the Internet and watching TV at the same time, the market is perfect for an application that marries the two. Launching in the summer of 2010, Chatme.tv is poised to take advantage of this trend.
