Kurt Cunningham, Author at Made by Munsters

An Iowa native, Kurt Cunningham has spent most of his career designing and developing for digital mediums in various roles across Chicago, where he is based.

Kurt focuses on making high-quality, content-focused web and mobile applications for nonprofits and universities. Kurt recently built a fact-checker website for Northwestern University to help students identify and rank the veracity of emerging information about COVID-19. With a deep background in experience design and digital storytelling that has helped him develop a deeper understanding of user behavior and audience engagement, Kurt works with clients to help solve problems small and large.

Over the course of his career, he has had the opportunity to shape startups such as ThinkCERCA, TopstepTrader, OrderNova, and Schlep. He has also worked with large clients such as ESPN, The Business Journals. Climate Advisers Trust, Red Ventures, and the National Governors Association.

Recent posts

Create Fully Editable Page Caps in WordPress

Kurt Cunningham • Jul. 27, 2021 • 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 template… Read more

Maintaining A MbM WordPress Site After Launch, From Our Client’s Perspective

Kurt Cunningham • Feb. 25, 2021 • Development

Just about the first question every potential client asks us is, “Are your WordPress websites easy to maintain?” And to be honest, it’s a fair question. (Skip the backstory and just read the interview.) WordPress is one of the, if not the, most widely used CMS platforms used… Read more

Style Tiles Make For Quick Design Exploration

Kurt Cunningham • Feb. 9, 2021 • 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… Read more

Hosting a Project Kickoff Workshop Remotely

Kurt Cunningham • Aug. 31, 2020 • 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,… Read more

Creating Flexible, Responsive WordPress Gutenberg Layouts

Kurt Cunningham • Aug. 19, 2020 • 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… Read more