Who We Are: We Are Experts
How Design Systems Evolve
Using Storybook for Design and Budget Flexibility
Web Strategy at Chapter Three
Visual Design at Chapter Three
Why Design Systems Matter for Large Organizations
A Redesign in Support of Children's Health
Site Migration and Refresh: Improving Access to the Research Resources of SIREN at UCSF
Refresh without committing to a redesign: a budget-friendly makeover
The Redesign of Childress Klein, Part 2: People Make the Place
The Redesign of Childress Klein; Part 1: Careers
Using Background Videos
Chapter Three Launches Innovative, New HDR Site on Drupal 8
MariaDB revamps inaugural M|17 Conference Site with Chapter Three
A Better Website Editing Experience with Modular Content Components
ADNI3 Launches on Drupal 8
Web Font Licensing Overview
The Slice Template
Redesigning the Bay Area Video Coalition
A Better Way to Administrate Drupal - Part 1
Persona Best Practices
Wireframing Template for Sketch
Goals First, Then Tactics
Drupalcon LA Recap
Designing the Berkeley Institute for Data Science from scratch
What is a Launch Blocker?
Our Industry Needs Digital Experience Directors
Drupalcon Austin 2014 Recap
Chapter Three Website Redesign 5.0
Presentation: Catalyze your creativity and save time and money with open tools and resources
Can you have it all?
In an ideal world we would be able to get the things we want immediately, in perfect condition AND at just the right price (preferably free). Unfortunately the real world of business doesn’t work that way. We have to make some compromises and choose the project parameters we value most, while sacrificing others.
Serve your local Drupal site locally to any device and design and debug in the browser
Want to test a website on your local machine and on a variety of other devices before you host it? This post from Lullabot explains how you can serve up a site you’re working on locally with a service called xip.io.
An Event Apart SF 2013 Recap
Presentation: Content Management: A Web Strategist’s Perspective
How to Create a Winning Website
Creating or redesigning a website can be an overwhelming task to take on. Most people don’t know where to start, or get stuck along the way.
To make this process easier to understand, we produced this infographic to illustrate the steps required to create a beautiful and meaningful Drupal website.
View the full infographic to learn:
Presentation: Wireframing Smarter
As the sites we build get increasingly complicated, the wireframing phase is increasingly important. Solving high-level usability challenges early in the process is less expensive and faster for you and your clients! In this talk, I'll share the techniques and tools we use at Chapter Three to quickly produce high-quality wireframes and maintain your UX sanity.
Presentation: Best Practices vs. Reality: How to Create Amazing Websites Under Un-amazing Circumstances
Wireframing With OmniGraffle, Part 2: Tips and Resources
Wireframing With OmniGraffle, Part 1: Setting up your file
Death of skeuomorphism and the future of design
The future is now
At the Design4Drupal camp in Boston there was a lot of talk about responsive design the state of design and where the future of design is headed. There was much discussion about what types of devices we may soon be designing for and how people will interact with them.
How to Give Design Feedback Like a Pro
Helping Tintri revolutionize the VM-aware storage market
To expand and gain a stronger foothold in the VM storage market, Tintri turned to Chapter Three to create a new look and feel for their business. As a team, the two companies built a stronger content structure that spoke more effectively to Tintri’s primary audiences.
The project was a resounding success, resulting in an immediate 30% increase in traffic and a significant uptick in lead generation after just one month.
Fireworks is (nearly) dead. Long live Fireworks!
Xyratex Case Study
10 Great Places To Source Images For Your Website
Finding images for your website can be a daunting task. We thought it'd be useful to compile a resource of sites we use to help people tasked with this responsibility.
Presentation: Delivering More Meaningful Designs Through Page Tables
What are page tables you ask? Page tables are a tool you can leverage in the strategy phase of your web project to help better inform the structure and content of your site.
Using page table will help you:
Presentation: How Therapy Helped My Client Relationships
Learn how to make your clients love you. This session will uncover tips for successful collaborations and share how mastering human interactions is the key to happiness, success and job satisfaction.
Knowing how to collaborate effectively with clients and co-workers largely accounts for the success of our projects. Yet navigating these waters is not always easy. All of us have encountered sticky situations where clients or co-workers miscommunicate, leading to different intrepretations of reality, which can lead to conflict.
Content Strategy is the Missing Piece
In lieu of the fact that I was unable to go attend Confab this week, I wanted to represent the Content Strategy movement by sharing a notion I've been thinking about for quite some time. I believe there are three key ingredients to making an amazing website: