TECHNOLOGY
User-centred digital tools
The apps, websites and ad hoc solutions we build are easy to use, beautiful to look at, and work flawlessly. They pack tremendous sophistication and power in a friendly and intuitive user environment.
Our starting point is a clear definition of the problem we want to solve. We then laser-focus on the user experience: empowering the user’s intellect and creativity, turbocharging her productivity, enriching her knowledge – in a way that feels effortless and fun.
Our job is to simplify the complexity and allow users to carry out complex tasks easily. While our products pack incredible power, to achieve impact they need to make sense to users – easy to learn and use, with the underlying complexity hidden away.
CASE STUDY
Webler
Our clients and teams use spreadsheets daily. Excel is a powerful and popular tool. Yet, it’s not great at sharing or publishing spreadsheets. That’s why we built Webler.
Webler is an online platform and Excel plug-in that makes it easy to publish or share excel spreadsheets as a fully interactive website, unlocking a whole new world of possibilities for Excel users.
You can apply your existing knowledge of Excel to create interactive and dynamic websites, with no coding required. Share data quickly and securely, and even build powerful databases while retaining full Excel functionality.
With Webler, you choose what you share: users only see and interact with what you want them to, keeping your source file protected and secure.
➥ Visit Webler for more.
CASE STUDY
Online experiment builder
We’ve created a powerful platform to quickly build user-friendly online interfaces for experimental research, complete with integration with popular recruitment services and the ability to monitor complex participant behaviour in real time.
CASE STUDY
Impact Estimator
Impact estimator is an online platform that calculates the regional and national economic impacts of projects and activities.
By drawing on input-output tables published by national statistics authorities, Impact Estimator helps researchers and policymakers to understand how an investment in one sector can have spillover effects on the wider economy.
Impact Estimator also includes a tool to estimate local employment impacts of investment spending, adjusting for leakage, displacement and substitution based on HM Treasury guidance.
➥ Visit Impact Estimator here.
CASE STUDY
Alma ERP
We have created an enterprise resource platform that integrates project management, time recording and resource tracking. Our platform is built within a robust database architecture, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organisation. Our platform runs in real time through fully flexible, user-friendly dashboards.
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Alma careers portal
We developed a fully custom assessment platform to allow our hiring teams to administer candidate assessments quickly and easily. The platform is user-friendly and intuitive, covers a wide range of job and assessment types, and it is fully integrated with our wider IT and data infrastructure.
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Systematic search
We have developed a tool allowing researchers carrying out systematic evidence reviews and rapid evidence assessments to quickly determine the volume of evidence associated with different search protocols, enabling quick and targeted tailoring to fit the needs of any particular review.
In addition, all identified papers for which ungated versions are available are automatically downloaded and made accessible through an easy-to-use database, further streamlining the process.
