What is Usability Testing and Why is it Useful?

The best way to tailor your website experience is to hear directly from your users. Usability testing provides invaluable insight into how you can create a meaningful human-centered approach to your digital products. What is Usability Testing Anyway? Some people refer to usability testing as “user testing,” but there is… Read More

Key Components of Data Visualization

Data visualizations are a powerful tool for communicating engaging narratives and complex ideas. There are several critical components you should consider during the process of planning for and designing your data visualization to ensure that you’re achieving success. Data visualizations can be fun and interactive, interesting and thought-provoking,… Read More

How Not to Build a Website Admin Experience

Nobody sets out to build a poor user experience, though it sometimes happens anyway. The admin user experience, or UX, built is the byproduct of choices along the way, choices that are focused on critical features seemingly unrelated to the administrative experience. A number of common justifications come up when… Read More

Thought Leadership: Using Your Experts’ Expertise

For many mission-driven organizations, a big part of their strength lies in the expertise of their people. Using this expertise to share innovative ideas and be thought a leader in their field can be a valuable part of ensuring credibility. Before we get started, let’s clarify by saying that we… Read More

Prepare for Drupal 9 in 2020

Drupal 9 will make its debut in four months, with its first stable release planned for June 3, 2020. Find out why you’ll want to upgrade and how to prepare for Drupal 9 now. For long-time Drupal developers, releases of new major versions of the open-source content management system caused… Read More

Web Personalization for Nonprofits

Automated customization, tailored experiences, drip campaigns, marketing automation, data-driven segmentation – everyone, it seems, is using visitor data to put the right content, in front of the right person, at the right time. Right? If you’re an online retailer, personalization is one of the most useful sales mechanisms… Read More

A Key Focus of Digital Transformation: The User Experience Tools

One of the most important goals of any digital transformation is creating optimal user experiences and journeys for your target audiences. If users are able to smoothly engage with your online touchpoints, and you’re able to provide them with the right personalized content over time, they are more likely to… Read More

Building a Shared Docker Infrastructure: How We Did It

We recently used the Docker Hub to create a shared infrastructure and make our technology team more streamlined in our approach to collaborative development.  At Forum One, we like finding tools that help us do our jobs more efficiently so that we can deliver impactful digital solutions to our clients. Read More

Three Keys for the Data-Driven Nonprofit in 2020

As your nonprofit organization sets its strategic priorities and operational plans for this new decade, what are some ways you can continue to drive your data maturity? Here are three trends that every nonprofit leader should have on their 2020 roadmap. It’s no secret that over the past decade “data-driven… Read More

Branimation: The Role of Animation in Branding

In my previous post on Motion for Good, I explored how animation works with motion graphics to create a powerful digital experience. In this latest post, I dive into the relationship between animation and branding — what we like to call “branimation” — and explain how the two are… Read More