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Large organizations with multi-site online ecosystems can be divided into two categories: those who have design systems and those who wish they did. Before the relatively recent advent of the design system, updating a fleet of websites to ensure consistency in components and brand voice was an extremely time-consuming and tedious process.

Remember Next-Drupal? It’s that thing we used to talk about incessantly but have been fairly quiet about in recent months. Not to worry – we haven’t lost interest. In fact, we’ve been working hard to make our Next.js-powered decoupled Drupal front-end product even better in Next-Drupal 2.0!

Building a website of any complexity requires effective coordination between developers and designers – and between both these parties and the client. In a typical project, designers ideate and build a mockup based on visual, UX, and UI elements, while developers determine if the design is feasible and, if so, get to work coding the site.

A San Francisco-based agency, Chapter Three primarily attracts clients from California and the West Coast. While remote work has become common, clients tend to gravitate to agencies close to home. With a three-hour time difference separating the coasts, West Coasters might find some comfort knowing their web partner is probably still at work if they run into issues late in the day.

Single sign-on (SSO) solutions are exactly what they sound like: authentication tools that enable users to simultaneously sign into multiple applications or databases with a single set of credentials. They are a useful feature across the board, but for developer portals and enterprise sites, where seamless integration with corporate account management and directory systems is required, they’re essential.

Black Knight, Inc. is a financial services company that provides integrated software, data, and analytics solutions primarily to the real estate and mortgage lending sectors, as well as to the capital and secondary markets. In January 2022, Black Knight approached us to create a developer portal to benefit both internal Black Knight users and external developers in the mortgage lending and real estate industries.

At Chapter Three, we focus on building beautifully designed and developed websites that make our clients happy, deliver information efficiently, and are sustainable over the long-term. Because a fantastic end product starts at the beginning, we guide our clients through a collaborative, strategic assessment of vision, goals, technical features, and, of course, content. We start with a wide funnel, where broad statements then get defined, refined, and made into actionable design and development tasks.

In the fast-paced digital landscape, visual design is critical to capturing user attention and creating successful websites. Chapter Three’s design team stands out for its innovative, hands-on, and user-centric approach to web design. We believe that the visual design process is not just about creating aesthetically pleasing graphics, but is also a careful undertaking that merges aesthetic creativity with functionality.

Greetings and Happy New Year from the heart of San Francisco, where Chapter Three ended yet another exhilarating year filled with innovation, collaboration, and noteworthy milestones! 2023 was our 17th year in the biz, and it was a busy one, to say the least.

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