Digital Products
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Building a Multi-Step Checkout Form from Scratch
If you’ve ever shopped online, you’re probably familiar with the multiple steps that it takes to check out. First, you fill out your basic contact information; then, your shipping address; next, your payment information and billing address; and finally, review…
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Agile Website Redesign for Agencies: Is it Possible?
Back when we first adopted an agile process, we had our doubts that it could work. But after using it on major redesigns for ESPN, NPR, and many more, we’re converts. We spent some time talking with…
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Surface, System, and Behavior: A Framework for Branding in a Digital-First World
This post is adapted from a presentation exploring the broader historical context of Upstatement’s brand through digital approach. It was originally shared at RISD in the spring of 2022. We create many different types of work at Upstatement,…
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Making Service Journalism into a Product
How we designed and made Up the Block, a new type of digital news product for underserved communities. For years, Upstatement has collaborated with The Trace, the premier newsroom reporting on American gun violence. We’ve learned…
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Why Google Docs was the right CMS for doctors treating COVID-19 patients
When presented with some of the most important content of our careers, we found ourselves going back to basics with the most pared down CMS of all.
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Making Zoom more human
Four new models for virtual spaces and how they could be truly immersive experiences.
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Designing deeper fan experiences
What will sports look like without fans? We designed a dozen concepts that could bring you even closer to the game.
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How we built a contact tracing app — and galvanized a group of global volunteers
One of the fastest ways to reach consensus and inspire action is for everyone to see a vision for where we're heading.
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How we built a COVID-19 app that helps doctors save lives
We partnered with Brigham & Women’s Hospital to build an app that put fast-changing best practices around COVID-19 care directly in the hands of doctors.
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Choosing a JAMstack for a flexible static site
In Part 1 of this series, we determined that we’d migrate our client’s website from WordPress to a JAMstack. We now needed: A static site generatorA headless CMSA hosting provider 1. Static site generator: Gatsby The first thing we needed…