Archive: Author: Kurt Cunningham

  • Create Fully Editable Page Caps in WordPress

    Development

    As WordPress’ Gutenberg editor moves closer and closer to a Full Site Editor (FSE), it’s important that we continue to find new and efficient ways for clients to manage all aspects of their sites. This includes allowing clients to manage page…

  • Style Tiles Make For Quick Design Exploration

    Design

    There are a lot of ways to kick off a new project. You might host a discovery workshop that allows your team and your client or stakeholders a chance to discuss the product’s current problems and what solutions could be implemented to solve those problems. Or if a…

  • Hosting a Project Kickoff Workshop Remotely

    Design

    During the last decade, our team has hosted a significant number of kickoff meetings, or as we call them discovery workshops. Over the course of a few days, our client, their stakeholders, and our team work to understand what problems our client is currently facing with their technology solution,…

  • Creating Flexible, Responsive WordPress Gutenberg Layouts

    Development

    We use a grid-based layout approach where we assign columns to span specific widths and the content contained within that column stretches to its parent's bounding box. When asked to build this specific client site on WordPress, this wasn't and still isn't a native feature of Gutenberg. So we fixed…

  • Roundup — Our Missing Communication Tool

    Development

    For the past several years, we have been working to develop a better agile process. We revised everything from how our designers and developers work together to how we communicate feature updates, bug fixes, and deployments to our clients.

  • Determining User Needs Based On User Personas

    Design

    As product designers and developers, we solve problems that our users encounter. Our work, hopefully, provides solutions to tasks that either take users too long to complete, confuse them or didn’t exist in the first place. But how do we determine what solutions or features are needed?…

  • Collect User Data For Cheap

    Design

    We found, over our company’s existence, that collecting data doesn’t have to be an expensive venture. Nor does it have to be a long-drawn-out, time-consuming phase of a project. As agile designers and developers, we collect data during the life span of the project.