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How to use a design sprint to guide your next big web project

Do you have a new feature request, a complex UX question or other big project coming up? Consider a design sprint. A design sprint answers business questions through a multi-day process involving design, prototyping and testing. It is a fast and fun way to brainstorm an idea and get feedback on that idea to optimize […]

Building a homegrown university portal with a tiny team

Follow our small web team of two on our journey to build a homegrown campus portal in the Drupal CMS we dubbed My.Fred. We’ll cover the steps we took to gather requirements and user feedback from our campus users to build and deliver a stable, simple, user-centric web portal service. Because the simple core of […]

Data visualization cheap and easy(-ish) — Or, lessons learned from a data dashboard project

Our departments hold storehouses full of operations data. However, challenges frequently arise when trying to analyze this data from across frequently siloed and proprietary data sources in a timely manner. Available toolsets, meanwhile, leave us wishing for more — many apps handle data from specific products or only harvest specific types of data. Other apps […]