ARTICLES AND INSIGHTS :

Transform Ventura Count’s 2040 General Plan into an interactive, digital experience.

I surveyed several of my Urban Insight colleagues who have been through multiple upgrades to Drupal 9 for the lessons they've learned and challenges to expect as you take on your Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 (or Drupal 10) upgrade.  

Here’s a summary of their hard-won observations.

Reinvigorate a beloved brand that had become dated and create a post-pandemic design to reinvigorate the community of technology enthusiasts

Many organizations will create a request for proposal (RFP) to invite agencies to bid on their website redesign and development project. Unfortunately, many RFPs drive away exactly the kind of agency that the organization wants. We've seen thousands (really, thousands) of RFPs over the years. Some are really great. Many are not.

So we created the RFP that we'd want to receive. This is a user-friendly website RFP example that provides the critical details required for us to

Create a beautiful and versatile mobile app that enhances the in-gallery experience for museum visitors.

A mobile website and app to incentivize participation in events, career development, and discovery of Los Angeles through gamification and community-building.

Tangerine is a best practice for publishing complex documents to interactive websites. 

This best practice benchmarking study of 167 legal services websites was conducted in December 2017. The results were presented on January 10th, 2018, at the Legal Services Corporation 2018 Technology Initiative Grants Conference in New Orleans, LA. 

Best practice benchmarking is "the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to...best practices from other industries" or in relation to "a peer group defined for the purposes of comparison" (Wikipedia).

A new model for digital publishing of complex documents, and creating the world’s first personalized zoning code for one of the largest cities in the world.

A mobile app for iOS and Android platforms that encourages participation in events, friendly competition, and discovery through gamification and social media interaction.