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Mississippi Jail Records homepage screenshot
Macarthur Justice Center homepage screenshot
Avison Young homepage screenshot

Mississippi Jail Records

www.msjaildata.com

The public now has access to a complete bank of data regarding several key aspects of the county jail systems across the state of Mississippi. This project was made possible through the use of Open source technologies for data transformations, Tableau Public for visualization and a healthy dose of Thirdwave ingenuity. Thanks are due to the efforts of the University of Mississippi School of Law staff and students and the MacArthur Justice Center for their support in the collection of data and the backing of its purpose.

  • Pentaho Data Integration platform for ETL
  • PostgreSQL for Data persistence
  • Tableau Public for data visualization
  • Hugo static site generator for content production and publishing

MacArthur Justice Center

www.macarthurjustice.org

A national, non-profit law firm, the MacArthur Justice Center is dedicated to protecting civil rights and fighting injustice in the criminal legal system through litigation at the trial, appellate, and Supreme Court levels. Looking to make as big of an impact online as they do in their litigation they paired with Thirdwave to start the makeover. MacArthur worked with Liska + Associates for branding and then Thirdwave went to work.

Through our information architecture process, we were able to redefine MacArthur’s sites by creating a clear intention and purpose for one consolidated site. Developing a robust CMS platform with custom content types, faceted searches, and impactful images this site now makes a statement. Providing a new way of organizing and presenting content MacArthur Justice Center now has a clear outlet to present their work, educate and provide resources to their audience.

  • WordPress CMS Implementation
  • Information Architecture
  • Faceted Search

Avison Young

www.avisonyoung.com

Avison Young, the world’s fastest growing commercial real estate firm, operates on a fully integrated, global, multi-tenant, multi-lingual web experience management architecture produced in collaboration with Thirdwave. The vision for a truly scalable web architecture that supports a global workforce of editors, unique content requirements and challenging navigation hurdles was put forth and implemented by Thirdwave in concert with the creative direction and complete site design system provided by PJD in Chicago.

The Avison Young team has continued to embrace the platform with continued feature enrichments and integrations with several modern commercial real estate and marketing platforms.

  • Local, regional and global broker directories
  • A globally integrated navigation system
  • Comprehensive and design element library for brand consistency
  • Universal keyword vocabularies
  • Multi-tier editor permissions structure
  • Commercial real estate listing service integrations with LoopNet, Buildout and propriotary service for the United Kingdom
  • Internal job posting and resume submission workflow
  • Google search API integration
  • Research reports, news and custom media content types
  • Pardot marketing platform integration
  • Ongoing technical strategy and services

Skender Site
Crosby Screen

Skender

www.skender.com

Thirdwave worked with Conjure Design on the award winning Skender Construction Website. The site was ahead of it’s time at launch including large format background imagery and content overlays that were responsive. Another unique element of the Skender site is the project tile user interface showcasing the diverse portfolio of Skender. Thirdwave also programmed a unique interface for the Skender Publication, bringing that publication onto the web. The site was built upon the easy-to-use MasterView Content Management Platform.

Archdiocese of Chicago

www.archchicago.org

Crosby Associates tapped Thirdwave to help when the Archdiocese of Chicago needed more control over their websites. Over time their environment had grown to an unmanageable number of sites under a multitude of platforms. Thirdwave provided initial technical discovery and consulting as well as implementation and training for existing AOC staff. The AOC is now on one platform - the Liferay Portal Platform. This has provided the Archdiocese with not only good looking sites, but also much greater control than they ever had.

  • Consolidation of web CMS platforms
  • Consistent themes to strengthen a new and modern brand
  • Extreme attention to detail across all devices
  • Content migration team
  • Training and enablement
  • High availability hosting
  • Custom Mapping and Calendar applications

Crosby Associates

www.crosbyassociates.com

The collaboration history between Thirdwave and Crosby Associates is rich with history and successful engagements. Together the two organizations have developed digital brand and identity guidelines, interactive corporate communication vehicles, global online web properties and a multitude of generally connected goodness. Our engagements together include but are not limited to:

  • A Ruby on Rails based CMS Platform and a rich, responsive front end experience for the Crosby Associates website itself!
  • Comprehensive online web CMS infrastructure and site template system for the Archdiocese of Chicago
  • Global and multilingual web CMS system for the AT Kearny organization
  • Brand Asset Management system for the Centegra Health System
  • Brand and Identity management system for the Hewitt Associates organization (now part of Aon)
  • An online brand management guide and brand assets for Spectrum Health System.
  • An online brand management guide for Mutual of Omaha.

Covisint Screenshot
Keystone Browser Screen
ATKearney screenshot

Covisint

www.covisint.com

As a Covisint partner, we’ve had the opportunity to provide our UI and UX expertise to help deliver on internal and external experiences for them and their many customers.

  • Four of the Largest Auto Manufacturers in the world
  • One of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world
  • The largest soda manufacturer in the world
  • The largest professional association for physicians in the US
  • One of the largest online banks
  • Sales enablement

Keystone

www.dyes.com

Keystone provides color to the US and the World, literally. Conjure Design introduced Thirdwave to Keystone for a global website redesign and replatform project. The client mandated Thirdwave to solve the following issues/priorities:

  • Easier Content Management System Administration
  • Lead Generation System to offer samples of thousands of products
  • Streamlines Click Path for Sample and Information Requests
  • Multiple Languages
  • Multiple Global Websites
  • Advanced Custom Site and Product Search Engine

Thirdwave Implemented the Liferay Portal Platform, a custom Angular.js App, and Custom Portlets for Keystone to solve the issues. To implement these solutions, Thirdwave performed the following tasks:

  • Wireframes
  • UI/UX
  • Lead Generation
  • Angular.js Custom Application
  • Liferay Portal Implementation
  • Custom Portlet Development

A.T. Kearney

www.atkearney.com

  • Global web CMS roll-out
  • Multiple country sites (> 30)
  • Topic or event specific micro-site template (> 100)
  • Secured access to exclusive content
  • Localization workflow
  • Multi-user editorial workflow
  • Training and enablement

Duravant Site
Almost Home Kids Logo Site
BCN Creative Screenshot

Duravant

www.duravant.com

Thirdwave worked with Conjure Design to develop the new Duravant website. Duravant is one of the nation’s best and largest processing equipment companies. The Duravant.com website is mobile friendly and visually impressive.

Almost Home Kids

www.almosthomekids.org

Thirdwave worked with Liska & Associates to develop and implement the Almost Home Kids Public Website. Thirdwave built a custom WordPress Theme and implemented custom php code for the new site.

BCN Creative

Thirdwave implemented a custom WordPress theme for this nationally recognized design firm.

Bridgestone
Adler Screenshot
CFW browser

Bridgestone

  • Allow Retailers to visualize upgraded Point of Sale Displays on their Showroom floor
  • B2B E-Commerce Integration
  • Tradeshow support
  • Full featured user experience for non-technical users
  • Extranet User Login and Product Data integration
  • Long living software solution

Adler University

www.adler.edu

The Adler School of Professional Psychology (now Adler University) needed a user friendly CMS that would also be flexible enough to accommodate the beautiful, high-fidelity design provided by Kym Abrams Design. Thirdwave provided information architecture, consulting, user interface development, application development, implementation and content migration services for Adler. The University ended up with an easy-to-use platform that accommodated all three of their campuses; Chicago, Vancouver and Online. This solution has also provided a very long-term platform for the school and a tremendous ROI.

  • Technical architecture, strategy and consulting
  • Content gathering workflow
  • Long lived design system
  • Early adopter of responsive layout techniques
  • Multiple custom applications
    • Campus signage content management and display
    • Calendar of events
  • Lead generation forms
  • Implementation of a multitude of SEO tactics

Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW)

www.cfw.org

Chicago Foundation for Women. An organization founded for the equality and empowerment of women. Thirdwave was engaged by our design partner, Kym Abrams Design to help re-engineer the cfw.org website. In addition, Thirdwave was tasked with making the new CFW website much easier to administer by existing CFW staff.

Thirdwave worked with KAD on the information architecture of the new site. In addition, Thirdwave validated the new user experience. The final solution included the implementation of the WordPress CMS platform with custom integration for CFW’s donor platform, Blackbaud. The redesigned site does not look like other WordPress sites built from purchased themes. It is truly a high fidelity implementation of the approved design comps, including mobile responsiveness.

  • Custom Wordpress Theme
  • CRM Integration
  • High Fidelity, Responsive
  • Rich Interactions

Forum Studio Site
GM
AIDS Foundation of Chicago Site

Forum Studio

www.forumstudio.com

Thirdwave has worked with Forum Studio on their websites for several iterations. Thirdwave assists in design and development for Forum Studio. The Forum Studio site showcases a high level of user interface development required by the large visualizations and responsive requirements.

General Motors

Thirdwave was challenged to create a mobile friendly microsite that provided an engaging user experience that would provide a consistent experience throughout multiple browser platforms. Thirdwave also helped to bring the General Motors Annual Report to life through an engaging and interactive online user experience.

AIDS Foundation of Chicago

www.aidschicago.org

Thirdwave implemented a customized WordPress theme and unique navigation for AFC based upon the design developed by Substance Design.

Illinois Tool Works Site
IIDA Site
Girls Who Code

Illinois Tool Works (ITW)

www.itw.com

ITW is one of the country’s largest conglomerates. As a publicly traded company, ITW has many corporate and shareholder communication responsibilities. Bill Smith Design introduced Thirdwave to ITW to consult on the global website redesign. Thirdwave developed a custom user interface built for ITW based upon Bill Smith’s designs. This was implemented on a WordPress CMS platform. In addition, Thirdwave engineered data connections with multiple third-party API’s for various shareholder data publishing on the public site.

  • UI/UX
  • Third-Party API Connections
  • Custom Theme Development
  • WordPress Implementation

IIDA

www.iida.org

The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) is the Commercial Interior Design Association with a global reach. They support design professionals, industry affiliates, educators, students, firms and their clients through our ^?a network of 15,000+ members across 58 countries.

Thirdwave has been maintaining the IIDA website and has helped support their Chapter websites for over a decade. We’ve also implemented custom design galleries for their design competitions.

Girls Who Code

www.girlswhocode.com

Thirdwave helped Girls Who Code upgrade their old WordPress site to the most current instance and integrate a re-design with design partner Kym Abrams Design.

Life Fitness
Shriver Center Site
APLU screenshot.

Life Fitness

Thirdwave developed a global site management system for Life Fitness. This CMS implementation included multilingual capabilities and support for editors around the globe. Additionally, a custom product information database management tool was developed to support specific product page layout requirements and localization in multiple languages while maintaining a straightforward method of managing this data.

Shriver Center

50.povertylaw.org

Thirdwave worked with Kym Abrams Design on the launch of the new Shriver Center 50th anniversary website. Thirdwave was able to customize the Drupal platform to accommodate the high level of visual design. Thirdwave also integrated Shriver’s CRM and Event Management applications into the new site.

Association for Public Land Grant Universities (APLU)

www.collegeportraits.org

APLU is a publicly funded organization responsible for data collection from its members as well as dissemination of that data. Thirdwave performed both User Experience Consulting, as well as front-end and back-end programming.

Custom Ruby on Rails Application. Thirdwave was engaged to work with APLU through one of our design partners, Conjure. We were brought in to program a new user interface for both the public facing sites of SAM (Student Achievement Measure) as well as the College Portraits sites.

Japan Society Site
Precious Moments
Signature Bank Site

Japan Society

www.japansociety.org

The Japan Society is the leading not for profit organization supporting understanding between Japan and the US in a global context. Thirdwave has been the technology agency of record for Japan Society for over 13 years. Thirdwave has built not only the public website, but also custom applications including the Education site, scholarship application process and CRM Integration.

Precious Moments

www.preciousmoments.com

Thirdwave implemented our custom Content Management System, MasterView, and E-commerce Engine for Precious Moments. We also integrated their existing user database into the new platform to enable User Generated Content submissions. Beyond that, Thirdwave created a dynamic eCommerce engine to support sales and management of inventory.

Signature Bank

www.signature-bank.com

The Signature Bank corporate website is a project built on the WordPress CMS platform. After going through a complete rebranding exercise with the team at Pressley Johnson Design the bank turned to Thirdwave to implement the new vision online. This is a very unique design and, although we used the WordPress platform, the vast majority of the code needed to deliver this experience was custom built. Upon completion Thirdwave and Signature Bank entered into an ongoing SEO program that has greatly improved the organic traffic the site sees which is helping them grow their brand online and gain new customers.

  • WordPress
  • UI/UX
  • SEO campaign
  • Video streaming
  • Microsites

CCA Center Site
Ally Screenshot
Dunlee

Civic Consulting Alliance

www.ccachicago.org

Civic Consulting Alliance asked Thirdwave to provide technical leadership, consulting and programming for their new website. Thirdwave developed a custom WordPress theme for CCA to include all of the custom functionality required for the site. Thirdwave also refined the WordPress administration to make the site easier for the CCA to administer in the future.

Ally

www.ally.com

Ally is one of the largest online banks in the world. Thirdwave implemented the Covisint Platform for this financial organizations intranet.

Dunlee

www.dunlee.com

Thirdwave implemented our custom Content Management System, MasterView for the DUnlee website. We also created a custom product information database management tool to support specific product page layout requirements while maintaining a straightforward method of managing each product’s specifications, imagery, and associated downloadable files.

BuzzCo
Lake Forest Hospital Site

Buzz Company

Thirdwave created a secure web-based client & artist portal used for scheduling and invoicing. Thirdwave also developed a custom CRM back-office for the handling of all BuzzCo’s various management needs.

Lake Forest Hospital

Smith Design brought Thirdwave into the website redesign project with Lake Forest Hospital due to the complexity and custom programming necessary. Thirdwave implemented Bill’s high-fidelity user interface on the MasterView CMS. Thirdwave also developed several custom applications for LFH that were highly successful. These custom applications include a Physician Finder, eCommerce, Class Managers for their Health Fitness Clubs as well as an Electronic Get Well Card and Custom Messaging System.

  • MasterView Content Management System
  • Event and Class Registration with E-commerce
  • Online Bill Payment
  • Video Streaming
  • Physician Directory
  • Interactive Ecards
  • Search Engine Optimization

William Blair

www.williamblair.com

The William Blair Macro Allocation Fund website is a data visualization site. It allows for visitors to view the broadly diversified fund that can invest in more than 100 different markets and currencies around the world.

Thirdwave partnered with Pressley Johnson Design for the look and feel of the site.

  • Wireframes
  • UI/UX
  • D3 visual library

American Medical Association Screenshot
CMAP
BabbaCo Website

American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Portal - AMAgine

www.ama-assn.org

Thirdwave was hired by the American Medical Association to assist with the customization and implementation of the Covisint Identity Management Platform for the AMA’s Physician Portal. Thirdwave provided information architecture services, User Interface Development, Custom Java Portlett Development as well as marketing Demos for the AMAgine product.

  • Single Sign-on, personalization, content management, eCommerce
  • Thirdwave User Interface Design
  • Information Architecture
  • User Interface Design
  • HTML, CSS, jQuery and Java Programming
  • Multimedia Product Demo
  • Technology requirements clarification and consulting

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

www.cmap.illinois.gov

The CMAP website utilizes the Liferay Platform for its content management. Liferay is an open source Java Portal with a rich array of integrated features such as blogs, message boards, calendar/event management, alerts and announcements. Many of these were utilized for the CMAP website making it a content rich and dynamic place for visitors to learn about the project.

BabbaCo - BabbaBox

Thirdwave was tasked to develop a website for one of the pioneers in the subscription business model. Thirdwave implemented a fully customized Magento eCommerce Platform for BabbaCo. In addition to the highly modified User Interface, the back-end eCommerce model had to be customized to work with their warehouses as well as modified for the subscription model. Site was a hit and business was sold.

  • WordPress Blog Integration
  • Members Only Extranet Site Implementation
  • Information Architecture
  • Magento Ecommerce Implementation
  • User Interface Design
  • Highly Customized Subscription Based Business Model
  • Warehouse Integration
  • Technology requirements clarification and consulting
  • Membership Customization

Macarthur Justice Center homepage screenshot

MacArthur Justice Center

www.macarthurjustice.org

A national, non-profit law firm, the MacArthur Justice Center is dedicated to protecting civil rights and fighting injustice in the criminal legal system through litigation at the trial, appellate, and Supreme Court levels. Looking to make as big of an impact online as they do in their litigation they paired with Thirdwave to start the makeover. MacArthur worked with Liska + Associates for branding and then Thirdwave went to work.

Through our information architecture process, we were able to redefine MacArthur’s sites by creating a clear intention and purpose for one consolidated site. Developing a robust CMS platform with custom content types, faceted searches, and impactful images this site now makes a statement. Providing a new way of organizing and presenting content MacArthur Justice Center now has a clear outlet to present their work, educate and provide resources to their audience.

  • WordPress CMS Implementation
  • Information Architecture
  • Faceted Search

Avison Young homepage screenshot

Avison Young

www.avisonyoung.com

Avison Young, the world’s fastest growing commercial real estate firm, operates on a fully integrated, global, multi-tenant, multi-lingual web experience management architecture produced in collaboration with Thirdwave. The vision for a truly scalable web architecture that supports a global workforce of editors, unique content requirements and challenging navigation hurdles was put forth and implemented by Thirdwave in concert with the creative direction and complete site design system provided by PJD in Chicago.

The Avison Young team has continued to embrace the platform with continued feature enrichments and integrations with several modern commercial real estate and marketing platforms.

  • Local, regional and global broker directories
  • A globally integrated navigation system
  • Comprehensive and design element library for brand consistency
  • Universal keyword vocabularies
  • Multi-tier editor permissions structure
  • Commercial real estate listing service integrations with LoopNet, Buildout and propriotary service for the United Kingdom
  • Internal job posting and resume submission workflow
  • Google search API integration
  • Research reports, news and custom media content types
  • Pardot marketing platform integration
  • Ongoing technical strategy and services

Mississippi Jail Records homepage screenshot

Mississippi Jail Records

www.msjaildata.com

The public now has access to a complete bank of data regarding several key aspects of the county jail systems across the state of Mississippi. This project was made possible through the use of Open source technologies for data transformations, Tableau Public for visualization and a healthy dose of Thirdwave ingenuity. Thanks are due to the efforts of the University of Mississippi School of Law staff and students and the MacArthur Justice Center for their support in the collection of data and the backing of its purpose.

  • Pentaho Data Integration platform for ETL
  • PostgreSQL for Data persistence
  • Tableau Public for data visualization
  • Hugo static site generator for content production and publishing

Skender Site

Skender

www.skender.com

Thirdwave worked with Conjure Design on the award winning Skender Construction Website. The site was ahead of it’s time at launch including large format background imagery and content overlays that were responsive. Another unique element of the Skender site is the project tile user interface showcasing the diverse portfolio of Skender. Thirdwave also programmed a unique interface for the Skender Publication, bringing that publication onto the web. The site was built upon the easy-to-use MasterView Content Management Platform.

Archdiocese of Chicago

www.archchicago.org

Crosby Associates tapped Thirdwave to help when the Archdiocese of Chicago needed more control over their websites. Over time their environment had grown to an unmanageable number of sites under a multitude of platforms. Thirdwave provided initial technical discovery and consulting as well as implementation and training for existing AOC staff. The AOC is now on one platform - the Liferay Portal Platform. This has provided the Archdiocese with not only good looking sites, but also much greater control than they ever had.

  • Consolidation of web CMS platforms
  • Consistent themes to strengthen a new and modern brand
  • Extreme attention to detail across all devices
  • Content migration team
  • Training and enablement
  • High availability hosting
  • Custom Mapping and Calendar applications

Keystone Browser Screen

Keystone

www.dyes.com

Keystone provides color to the US and the World, literally. Conjure Design introduced Thirdwave to Keystone for a global website redesign and replatform project. The client mandated Thirdwave to solve the following issues/priorities:

  • Easier Content Management System Administration
  • Lead Generation System to offer samples of thousands of products
  • Streamlines Click Path for Sample and Information Requests
  • Multiple Languages
  • Multiple Global Websites
  • Advanced Custom Site and Product Search Engine

Thirdwave Implemented the Liferay Portal Platform, a custom Angular.js App, and Custom Portlets for Keystone to solve the issues. To implement these solutions, Thirdwave performed the following tasks:

  • Wireframes
  • UI/UX
  • Lead Generation
  • Angular.js Custom Application
  • Liferay Portal Implementation
  • Custom Portlet Development

ATKearney screenshot

A.T. Kearney

www.atkearney.com

  • Global web CMS roll-out
  • Multiple country sites (> 30)
  • Topic or event specific micro-site template (> 100)
  • Secured access to exclusive content
  • Localization workflow
  • Multi-user editorial workflow
  • Training and enablement

Crosby Screen
Covisint Screenshot

Crosby Associates

www.crosbyassociates.com

The collaboration history between Thirdwave and Crosby Associates is rich with history and successful engagements. Together the two organizations have developed digital brand and identity guidelines, interactive corporate communication vehicles, global online web properties and a multitude of generally connected goodness. Our engagements together include but are not limited to:

  • A Ruby on Rails based CMS Platform and a rich, responsive front end experience for the Crosby Associates website itself!
  • Comprehensive online web CMS infrastructure and site template system for the Archdiocese of Chicago
  • Global and multilingual web CMS system for the AT Kearny organization
  • Brand Asset Management system for the Centegra Health System
  • Brand and Identity management system for the Hewitt Associates organization (now part of Aon)
  • An online brand management guide and brand assets for Spectrum Health System.
  • An online brand management guide for Mutual of Omaha.

Covisint

www.covisint.com

As a Covisint partner, we’ve had the opportunity to provide our UI and UX expertise to help deliver on internal and external experiences for them and their many customers.

  • Four of the Largest Auto Manufacturers in the world
  • One of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world
  • The largest soda manufacturer in the world
  • The largest professional association for physicians in the US
  • One of the largest online banks
  • Sales enablement

JGMA Site

JGMA

www.jgma.com

Partnering with Eric Wagner of True Story, INC, Thirdwave built out this very unique and custom experience on the WordPress CMS platform. The portfolio section of JGMA’s website really added a level of unique custom programming that makes the site stand out. This site is full responsive and has been optimized for speed due to the amount of high resolution images crucial to the site’s look.

Road to Close

www.roadtoclose.com

A prominent Chicago Real Estate Attorney had a terrific idea to streamline and clarify the real estate closing process from contract through close. There was nothing like it on the market. Thirdwave was hired to build the new application. This included conceptualization, wireframing, design, prototyping and beta build. User experience was our highest priority throughout the application design process. We knew that real estate professionals demanded a clean interface and of course mobile optimized. Thirdwave also provided tradeshow support including a demo and lead generation system. The application is currently in Beta and continues to gain market support.

  • Startup from concept to creation
  • Graphic design services
  • Tradeshow support
  • Interactive wireframe
  • Executive level consulting for investor meetings
  • Ruby on rails stack
  • E-Commerce
  • Secure file workflows

Duravant Site

Duravant

www.duravant.com

Thirdwave worked with Conjure Design to develop the new Duravant website. Duravant is one of the nation’s best and largest processing equipment companies. The Duravant.com website is mobile friendly and visually impressive.

Almost Home Kids Logo Site

Almost Home Kids

www.almosthomekids.org

Thirdwave worked with Liska & Associates to develop and implement the Almost Home Kids Public Website. Thirdwave built a custom WordPress Theme and implemented custom php code for the new site.

AIGA Screenshot
BCN Creative Screenshot

AIGA

www.aiga.org

Thirdwave was the technology agency of record for many years for the AIGA, both Nationally and locally in Chicago. Many custom applications were developed over that time as well as national website implementation and marketing.

BCN Creative

Thirdwave implemented a custom WordPress theme for this nationally recognized design firm.

Adler Screenshot

Adler University

www.adler.edu

The Adler School of Professional Psychology (now Adler University) needed a user friendly CMS that would also be flexible enough to accommodate the beautiful, high-fidelity design provided by Kym Abrams Design. Thirdwave provided information architecture, consulting, user interface development, application development, implementation and content migration services for Adler. The University ended up with an easy-to-use platform that accommodated all three of their campuses; Chicago, Vancouver and Online. This solution has also provided a very long-term platform for the school and a tremendous ROI.

  • Technical architecture, strategy and consulting
  • Content gathering workflow
  • Long lived design system
  • Early adopter of responsive layout techniques
  • Multiple custom applications
    • Campus signage content management and display
    • Calendar of events
  • Lead generation forms
  • Implementation of a multitude of SEO tactics

CFW browser

Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW)

www.cfw.org

Chicago Foundation for Women. An organization founded for the equality and empowerment of women. Thirdwave was engaged by our design partner, Kym Abrams Design to help re-engineer the cfw.org website. In addition, Thirdwave was tasked with making the new CFW website much easier to administer by existing CFW staff.

Thirdwave worked with KAD on the information architecture of the new site. In addition, Thirdwave validated the new user experience. The final solution included the implementation of the WordPress CMS platform with custom integration for CFW’s donor platform, Blackbaud. The redesigned site does not look like other WordPress sites built from purchased themes. It is truly a high fidelity implementation of the approved design comps, including mobile responsiveness.

  • Custom Wordpress Theme
  • CRM Integration
  • High Fidelity, Responsive
  • Rich Interactions

Forum Studio Site

Forum Studio

www.forumstudio.com

Thirdwave has worked with Forum Studio on their websites for several iterations. Thirdwave assists in design and development for Forum Studio. The Forum Studio site showcases a high level of user interface development required by the large visualizations and responsive requirements.

AIDS Foundation of Chicago Site

AIDS Foundation of Chicago

www.aidschicago.org

Thirdwave implemented a customized WordPress theme and unique navigation for AFC based upon the design developed by Substance Design.

Bridgestone
GM

Bridgestone

  • Allow Retailers to visualize upgraded Point of Sale Displays on their Showroom floor
  • B2B E-Commerce Integration
  • Tradeshow support
  • Full featured user experience for non-technical users
  • Extranet User Login and Product Data integration
  • Long living software solution

General Motors

Thirdwave was challenged to create a mobile friendly microsite that provided an engaging user experience that would provide a consistent experience throughout multiple browser platforms. Thirdwave also helped to bring the General Motors Annual Report to life through an engaging and interactive online user experience.

Illinois Tool Works Site

Illinois Tool Works (ITW)

www.itw.com

ITW is one of the country’s largest conglomerates. As a publicly traded company, ITW has many corporate and shareholder communication responsibilities. Bill Smith Design introduced Thirdwave to ITW to consult on the global website redesign. Thirdwave developed a custom user interface built for ITW based upon Bill Smith’s designs. This was implemented on a WordPress CMS platform. In addition, Thirdwave engineered data connections with multiple third-party API’s for various shareholder data publishing on the public site.

  • UI/UX
  • Third-Party API Connections
  • Custom Theme Development
  • WordPress Implementation

IIDA Site

IIDA

www.iida.org

The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) is the Commercial Interior Design Association with a global reach. They support design professionals, industry affiliates, educators, students, firms and their clients through our ^?a network of 15,000+ members across 58 countries.

Thirdwave has been maintaining the IIDA website and has helped support their Chapter websites for over a decade. We’ve also implemented custom design galleries for their design competitions.

Shriver Center Site

Shriver Center

50.povertylaw.org

Thirdwave worked with Kym Abrams Design on the launch of the new Shriver Center 50th anniversary website. Thirdwave was able to customize the Drupal platform to accommodate the high level of visual design. Thirdwave also integrated Shriver’s CRM and Event Management applications into the new site.

APLU screenshot.

Association for Public Land Grant Universities (APLU)

www.collegeportraits.org

APLU is a publicly funded organization responsible for data collection from its members as well as dissemination of that data. Thirdwave performed both User Experience Consulting, as well as front-end and back-end programming.

Custom Ruby on Rails Application. Thirdwave was engaged to work with APLU through one of our design partners, Conjure. We were brought in to program a new user interface for both the public facing sites of SAM (Student Achievement Measure) as well as the College Portraits sites.

Girls Who Code
Life Fitness

Girls Who Code

www.girlswhocode.com

Thirdwave helped Girls Who Code upgrade their old WordPress site to the most current instance and integrate a re-design with design partner Kym Abrams Design.

Life Fitness

Thirdwave developed a global site management system for Life Fitness. This CMS implementation included multilingual capabilities and support for editors around the globe. Additionally, a custom product information database management tool was developed to support specific product page layout requirements and localization in multiple languages while maintaining a straightforward method of managing this data.

Japan Society Site

Japan Society

www.japansociety.org

The Japan Society is the leading not for profit organization supporting understanding between Japan and the US in a global context. Thirdwave has been the technology agency of record for Japan Society for over 13 years. Thirdwave has built not only the public website, but also custom applications including the Education site, scholarship application process and CRM Integration.

Signature Bank Site

Signature Bank

www.signature-bank.com

The Signature Bank corporate website is a project built on the WordPress CMS platform. After going through a complete rebranding exercise with the team at Pressley Johnson Design the bank turned to Thirdwave to implement the new vision online. This is a very unique design and, although we used the WordPress platform, the vast majority of the code needed to deliver this experience was custom built. Upon completion Thirdwave and Signature Bank entered into an ongoing SEO program that has greatly improved the organic traffic the site sees which is helping them grow their brand online and gain new customers.

  • WordPress
  • UI/UX
  • SEO campaign
  • Video streaming
  • Microsites

CCA Center Site

Civic Consulting Alliance

www.ccachicago.org

Civic Consulting Alliance asked Thirdwave to provide technical leadership, consulting and programming for their new website. Thirdwave developed a custom WordPress theme for CCA to include all of the custom functionality required for the site. Thirdwave also refined the WordPress administration to make the site easier for the CCA to administer in the future.

Ally Screenshot

Ally

www.ally.com

Ally is one of the largest online banks in the world. Thirdwave implemented the Covisint Platform for this financial organizations intranet.

Precious Moments
Dunlee

Precious Moments

www.preciousmoments.com

Thirdwave implemented our custom Content Management System, MasterView, and E-commerce Engine for Precious Moments. We also integrated their existing user database into the new platform to enable User Generated Content submissions. Beyond that, Thirdwave created a dynamic eCommerce engine to support sales and management of inventory.

Dunlee

www.dunlee.com

Thirdwave implemented our custom Content Management System, MasterView for the DUnlee website. We also created a custom product information database management tool to support specific product page layout requirements while maintaining a straightforward method of managing each product’s specifications, imagery, and associated downloadable files.

Lake Forest Hospital Site

Lake Forest Hospital

Smith Design brought Thirdwave into the website redesign project with Lake Forest Hospital due to the complexity and custom programming necessary. Thirdwave implemented Bill’s high-fidelity user interface on the MasterView CMS. Thirdwave also developed several custom applications for LFH that were highly successful. These custom applications include a Physician Finder, eCommerce, Class Managers for their Health Fitness Clubs as well as an Electronic Get Well Card and Custom Messaging System.

  • MasterView Content Management System
  • Event and Class Registration with E-commerce
  • Online Bill Payment
  • Video Streaming
  • Physician Directory
  • Interactive Ecards
  • Search Engine Optimization

William Blair

www.williamblair.com

The William Blair Macro Allocation Fund website is a data visualization site. It allows for visitors to view the broadly diversified fund that can invest in more than 100 different markets and currencies around the world.

Thirdwave partnered with Pressley Johnson Design for the look and feel of the site.

  • Wireframes
  • UI/UX
  • D3 visual library

American Medical Association Screenshot

American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Portal - AMAgine

www.ama-assn.org

Thirdwave was hired by the American Medical Association to assist with the customization and implementation of the Covisint Identity Management Platform for the AMA’s Physician Portal. Thirdwave provided information architecture services, User Interface Development, Custom Java Portlett Development as well as marketing Demos for the AMAgine product.

  • Single Sign-on, personalization, content management, eCommerce
  • Thirdwave User Interface Design
  • Information Architecture
  • User Interface Design
  • HTML, CSS, jQuery and Java Programming
  • Multimedia Product Demo
  • Technology requirements clarification and consulting

BabbaCo Website

BabbaCo - BabbaBox

Thirdwave was tasked to develop a website for one of the pioneers in the subscription business model. Thirdwave implemented a fully customized Magento eCommerce Platform for BabbaCo. In addition to the highly modified User Interface, the back-end eCommerce model had to be customized to work with their warehouses as well as modified for the subscription model. Site was a hit and business was sold.

  • WordPress Blog Integration
  • Members Only Extranet Site Implementation
  • Information Architecture
  • Magento Ecommerce Implementation
  • User Interface Design
  • Highly Customized Subscription Based Business Model
  • Warehouse Integration
  • Technology requirements clarification and consulting
  • Membership Customization

BuzzCo
CMAP

Buzz Company

Thirdwave created a secure web-based client & artist portal used for scheduling and invoicing. Thirdwave also developed a custom CRM back-office for the handling of all BuzzCo’s various management needs.

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

www.cmap.illinois.gov

The CMAP website utilizes the Liferay Platform for its content management. Liferay is an open source Java Portal with a rich array of integrated features such as blogs, message boards, calendar/event management, alerts and announcements. Many of these were utilized for the CMAP website making it a content rich and dynamic place for visitors to learn about the project.