Zagaran, Inc. is a Harvard-alumni led software development company headquartered in Boston, MA. Our company philosophy is very simple: We choose to do right by our clients. We stand by our software, we stand by our clients, and we stand by our community. Clients trust us to build technology critical... View Profile
Zagaran, Inc. is a Harvard-alumni led software development company headquartered in Boston, MA. Our company philosophy is very simple: We choose to do right by our clients. We stand by our software, we stand by our clients, and we stand by our community. Clients trust us to build technology critical to their mission, and we always deliver. View Profile
RetroacDev is a data-driven Research & Development Tax Credit automation software built by software experts for accountants who work with clients in the SaaS, software, and technology industries.RetroacDev analyzes client data from GitHub, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, and other project management platforms popular among tech startups to help accountants accelerate data collection, calculate Qualified Research Expenditure (QRE), and generate contemporaneous documentation to protect clients in the event of an IRS Audit.Accountants in the Bay Area, NYC, Boston, Chicago, and other tech hubs around the country used RetroacDev to help tech organizations document and claim their R&D tax credits.
Zagaran certified as ITS74 statewide vendor by MA
CHAMP wins Manuel Carballo award
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Cantina Consulting is a strategic design and development agency in Boston, MA that helps organizations harness the power of design and technology to create experiences that matter. With expertise in product and service design, experience strategy, mobile and web development, and delivery enablement,... View Profile
Cantina Consulting is a strategic design and development agency in Boston, MA that helps organizations harness the power of design and technology to create experiences that matter. With expertise in product and service design, experience strategy, mobile and web development, and delivery enablement, Cantina is a trusted partner for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups in all major industries. Cantina works with some of the largest and most innovative companies on the planet, collaborating on projects in health & life science, Fintech, sports innovation, AR/VR, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Cantina will help you find opportunities for innovation and growth, as well as design, develop, and deliver digital products and services that improve people's lives and enhance the human experience. View Profile
Empower Retirement, the second-largest retirement services provider in the country, partnered with Cantina to design and develop a mobile app containing key functional elements of the Empower desktop experience.
Cantina designed and architected the app interface, including a version for the Apple Watch.
Available to 8 Million+ 401(k) participants on 35,000 plans, the mobile and watch apps engage users more fully in planning for retirement.
W3 Award - Best Visual Design (Mobile App)
W3 Award - Best Use of Experimental & Innovation
MITX - Most Innovative Use of Digital Space
W3 Award - Mobile App (Health & Wellness)
User Experience Awards - Most Authentic Experience
W3 Awards - Best User Experience
W3 Awards - Best Mobile App (Finance)
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thoughtbot is a design and development consultancy that brings your digital product ideas to life.We've produced top quality applications with hundreds of clients for more than 15 years. From one person startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, and non-profits.We create great user experienc... View Profile
thoughtbot is a design and development consultancy that brings your digital product ideas to life.We've produced top quality applications with hundreds of clients for more than 15 years. From one person startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, and non-profits.We create great user experiences powered by well-made software. When we start a project, we'll typically run a product design sprint where we create and test a prototype with real people in the first week. We then design and code while focusing on quality and maintainability. We work iteratively and deploy working code regularly.We'd love to work with you! Let's chat and build something your users will love. View Profile
SplitFit was founded by three childhood friends who saw an opportunity to revolutionize personal training. Having been in the fitness industry for years they realized that between noon and 5pm gyms typically have unbooked trainers on staff who are being paid to wait until their next session. By building an easy way for people to find and book these trainers people would be able to access training at a lower price point while still generating additional revenue for the gym.SplitFit came to us with only an idea. We started day one with a design sprint to validate their idea. By the end of week one we conducted our first round of user testing and interviews.We created a prototype that was built in Xcode. This let users run the prototype on their iPhone. They were able to set preferences, build profiles and use the keyboard as they would normally with any other app. We caught issues much earlier and more accurately than we would have with a traditional prototyping approach (creating a prototype with hotspots and images).The outcome of the first week was incredibly successful. The prototype and business idea was well received. We confidently moved forward knowing that we conducted an initial round of user testing. We started to build out and refine wireframes for each of the designed user flows.
The first version of the product was shipped and in the hands of users just two months from the start date of our engagement. This included the ability for a user to join a pool (the buyouts feature came later).
The initial release was piloted with the CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center, a large office space just blocks from the pilot gym). This allowed us to have real testers in a controlled environment. We were able to gather feedback from customers as well as trainers.
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The Gnar Company designs and developed robust, reliable software products built to grow and scale. We help companies build foundational web and mobile applications like their in-house teams. View Profile
The Gnar Company designs and developed robust, reliable software products built to grow and scale. We help companies build foundational web and mobile applications like their in-house teams. View Profile
Conformis develops and manufactures custom knee and hip joint replacements. They wanted an app that enabled surgeons to access pre-operative plans (iViews) for their upcoming hip or knee cases, as well as expose other surgeons to Conformis content. The Conformis team and The Gnar Company kicked off the work with a Design and Discovery project to define the user personas, user journey, and key app features. The discovery workshop was followed by designing the mobile app screens and creating a click-through demo consistent with the Conformis brand. The Gnar Company built the Conformis iViewer with React Native and launched in the Apple App Store optimized for both phone and tablet. The app enables Conformis surgeons to review knee and hip iViews anywhere, access Conformis surgical technique videos, contact their local sales rep or Conformis customer service, and send invitations to colleagues to download the app. Non-Conformis surgeons can create an account to access sample iViews and other Conformis content, as well as contact their local sales rep to learn more. The Gnar integrated the mobile app with Conformis's internal ordering platform for authentication and access to surgical iViews.
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We offer comprehensive software discovery, development, and auditing services to help businesses conquer the markets and deliver outstanding technology solutions. View Profile
We offer comprehensive software discovery, development, and auditing services to help businesses conquer the markets and deliver outstanding technology solutions. View Profile
Intention
To develop an intuitive but highly-efficient management system with a feature-rich user interface (UI) and advanced user experience (UX). This corporate management system should be a reliable management instrument to help businesses manage and control people, time, and funds in the most intelligent way.
Challenge
Make this system cloud-based, providing easy access for users, and convenient administrative options. The platform was supposed to be extremely convenient to use encouraging employees to automate their business processes, use system on daily basis, and share their positive experience with other employees. In such a way, the owner’s business will become more rational and profitable. Moreover, all the works Perfectial has been in charge of were performed under tight deadlines.
Solution
The Metis company turned to Perfectial to help manage the challenges that cropped up as the initial idea raised. In terms of cooperation, Perfectial assisted our client with design and development of an effective SaaS business intelligence platform. In the result of this fruitful cooperation, end users of Perfectial’s client now are armed with efficient resource and expense management system to make the best use of their most precious assets – people, clients, and time.TMetis, first of all, assists managers in tracking time and expenses captured by users to the system. Moreover, to simplify the time and expenses tracking, users can add receipt images to support expenses. Later on, such timesheet can be reviewed and approved by the managers.With the help of the Metis system, a manager now possesses accurate and timely of information about projects statuses and risks showing how people are spending their time, measuring the profitability on each project with defined estimates of the progress.Metis has been recognized by 2017 Rising Star Award by Finances Online as a fast-developing company with innovative ideas.
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Essential Design is solving the most complex design and innovation challenges. Our multi-disciplinary team of research, design, and engineering professionals works across industries, helping clients to design and deliver integrated physical, digital, and service experiences. View Profile
Essential Design is solving the most complex design and innovation challenges. Our multi-disciplinary team of research, design, and engineering professionals works across industries, helping clients to design and deliver integrated physical, digital, and service experiences. View Profile
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Delve, formerly Design Concepts, is full-service product design and strategic innovation consultancy with offices in Madison, Wisconsin, San Francisco and Boston. We design products, services and experiences that drive business success and improve people's lives through meaningful solutions. Our pro... View Profile
Delve, formerly Design Concepts, is full-service product design and strategic innovation consultancy with offices in Madison, Wisconsin, San Francisco and Boston. We design products, services and experiences that drive business success and improve people's lives through meaningful solutions. Our process has been tested and refined through the completion of more than 2,500 projects for over 400 clients since our founding in 1967. Our strategy, research and design experts deliver world-class physical and digital products, and service design to our clients.In the broadest sense, we envision bold new opportunities and have the technical skill to bring them to life. We help our clients think bigger. We are innovators, inspired by the world and possibilities around us, with a vision to contribute by inspiring others.Our practice is rooted in hiring wickedly talented people, applying design thinking principles and domain expertise, and balancing passion and process. We have served as adjunct faculty at the University of Wisconsin, teaching Design Thinking for Business in the MBA program and teaching product development in the Engineering Schools. We teach, facilitate, speak and write regularly on the topics of design and innovation.A few facts 70+ multidisciplinary professionals with backgrounds ranging from cultural anthropology to engineering and businessOur team includes graduates from some of the top universities including Stanford, CCS and MITOur Madison office features collaborative innovation work spaces and a state-of-the-art prototyping shopListen to Delve Talks, our podcast on innovation hosted by Delve president Dave Franchino featuring interviews with innovation leaders in the corporate and startup world at podcast.delve.com View Profile
Proton therapy has many advantages. It effectively targets cancer cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissue and organs. But the experience isn't particularly easy on stressed patients. That's why when ProNova decided to design a more accessible version of the equipment, they came to us to help design the patient and technician experience.
We designed the overall experience including system aesthetics, general room layout, and information architecture of treatment interfaces, with the goals of increasing efficiency, accuracy and throughput.To begin, our team interviewed patients and technicians, observed treatment at several centers, and were trained on an existing proton therapy system. This culminated in a procedure workflow that identified improvement opportunities. The team continuously refined the workflow throughout the development process. To test our ideas, we brought technicians into a life-sized treatment suite prototype, going through scenarios for several types of procedures using interface concepts on computer and paper.
For patient comfort, we designed a more intimate treatment room that features a partially obscured nozzle that lessens the sense of the equipment's scale. Every piece of equipment that a technician or patient sees or touches has a modern, simple cover. The ceiling awning is strategically placed so a patient can watch a projected video during treatment to help the time pass.
For technicians, we designed an elegant control pendant, console and single-action snout clamp. Digitally, we defined the workflow for each type of patient treatment and created the information architecture for the five touchpoints used during the procedure. Working with ProNova’s software team, we designed the process and the accompanying screens. We created the user-friendly, information-rich visual design of all digital interfaces. This includes the treatment room projections that communicate procedure status to increase technician efficiency.
Good Design Award
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Pixetic is a digital design agency with extensive experience in creating unique digital products. We help customers transform their ambitious and creative ideas into fully developed products that reflects its brand's values and identity. By understanding and believing in your idea we strive to add m... View Profile
Pixetic is a digital design agency with extensive experience in creating unique digital products. We help customers transform their ambitious and creative ideas into fully developed products that reflects its brand's values and identity. By understanding and believing in your idea we strive to add meaning. It, in return, adds value. And with this value, the product grows. The business drives design and we like it. View Profile
Bear Analytics software suite enriches and reorders historical attendee data so your marketing team can send the right message to the right person at exactly the right time—when they’re most likely to register. Before coming to us, Bear Anatylics’ processes were basically manual or invovled a lot of different external software. Many years of experience helped them envent there own ideal work flow, but there was no perfect tool available to do that. And our challange was to create the platform that will cover their flow and even better.
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Leveraging 27 years of excellence designing, developing, deploying and supporting world-class software solutions, Kanda Software has established itself as a trusted Software Development, Cloud Engineering, DevOps and QA partner for companies ranging from innovative startups to large enterprises. View Profile
Leveraging 27 years of excellence designing, developing, deploying and supporting world-class software solutions, Kanda Software has established itself as a trusted Software Development, Cloud Engineering, DevOps and QA partner for companies ranging from innovative startups to large enterprises. View Profile
College Interactive has chosen Kanda to help design and develop Ci Web Platform, Android and iPhone applications that allow college and university admission offices to engage and recruit prospective students via their preferred communication platform. By using CI app students can learn more about their education choices and connect one on one with colleges. College and university admission offices can use the College Interactive platform to inform, engage, and recruit prospective students.With the instant access to a database of over 5000 institutions of higher learning, College Interactive revolutionizes the admission marketing and recruitment process by providing an instant personalized marketing channel via mobile devices to colleges and universities to interact with prospective students. The mobile app helps students to simplify college or university search process based on their achievements and interests, to engage with admission offices, to learn about the application process, requirements, and payment options.
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