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Improving Client Connection with Web Apps: CreatingWE

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Apps can bring a lot of value to existing businesses, sometimes enabling new possibilities — like improving client connection — through their use. CreatingWE, a consulting business with whom we’ve had the privilege to collaborate, felt that, to continue to grow and improve upon their offered services, they needed an app. As corporate culture becomes increasingly digital, companies like CreatingWE can gain advantages by embracing technology and harnessing it to complement existing business models. Based in Manhattan, CreatingWE began as a consulting firm, working with Fortune 100 corporations. The company was founded by Judith E. Glaser and Richard D. Glaser, a husband and wife team with expertise in consulting and psychology. Judith was long recognized as a leader in the field of neuro-chemical organizational behavior, and published several best-selling books on improving company culture. Specializing in organizational communication, CreatingWE consults with international firms using their trademarked Conversational Intelligence and Catalyst tools to help create open, transparent company culture. The Challenge CreatingWE had a long-time working relationship with a company that makes a well-known commercial survey tool. As business continued to grow and Judith continued to refine the coaching approach of Conversational Intelligence, CreatingWE began looking to adapt how they do business. The firm first worked with the assessment company to try and expand the tool’s usability and reframe it meet the needs of CreatingWE and its clients. However, CreatingWE soon discovered that they needed a more robust solution than this company was able to provide. CreatingWE felt they wanted to change the tool to be more than just an assessment. At the time that the corporation started looking to grow their business, CreatingWE already offered their customers three levels of options. These options are referred to as Catalyst Tools, with the first level, Trust Catalyst the only one not based on Conversational Intelligence. All three Catalyst Tools help companies open up company-wide discussions to promote business. Yet, CreatingWE felt constrained by their current survey tool and wanted something that could bring Conversational Intelligence and Catalyst Tools to the next level. This was the moment when the company began considering the possibilities of an app. Perhaps an app could expand business and help with improving client connection? The Solution After evaluating the options, the company decided to pursue a web app and outsource the development of it. According to CreatingWE, they decided to work with us for several reasons. InspiringApps felt like the right fit because of our company size and because we have a culture that focuses on collaboration and listening to customers. We also came highly recommended from other leaders in the industry. CreatingWE found the InspiringApps development process to be an open partnership between the companies. CreatingWE wanted a number of modifications and our agile approach to app development made it easy to be receptive to those changes. Flexibility in designing the app helped CreatingWE feel confident about their app and its ability to meet customers where they need it. While pleased with the initial offering, CreatingWE also appreciates they can continue to work with us to further develop and evolve the functionality as they grow. Results Unlike other companies that want to incorporate apps into their business models to increase efficiency, save time, or generate more revenue, CreatingWE approached the world of mobile apps with a unique goal in mind. CreatingWE wanted an app to increase business, but also to increase the space for contact and conversation. While many consulting firms focus on acquiring new customers as they solve one-off problems for clients, CreatingWE strives to foster longer term relationships with their customers. CreatingWE has found that the app helps its coaches maintain solid connections with clients. Also, while the company already enjoyed an international presence, having a web app has been an effective method for drawing in new businesses from home and abroad. For CreatingWE, good communication is a primary objective. So, like everything else within the company, the app needed to positively contribute to generating a culture of Conversational Intelligence. With a long track record of helping companies improve their internal culture, CreatingWE understands how to use behavioral science to enable firms to realize their potential. The web app that InspiringApps developed and continues to update for CreatingWE shows a way that the company has expanded its business model to attract new customers and to refine the experience for current customers. If you want to learn more about organizational behavior, or about how a web app could help with improving client connection for your company, reach out to our team today.

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Based in Manhattan, CreatingWE began as a consulting firm, working with Fortune 100 corporations. The company was founded by Judith E. Glaser and Richard D. Glaser, a husband and wife team with expertise in consulting and psychology. Judith was long recognized as a leader in the field of neuro-chemical organizational behavior, and published several best-selling books on improving company culture. Specializing in organizational communication, CreatingWE consults with international firms using their trademarked Conversational Intelligence and Catalyst tools to help create open, transparent company culture.

The Challenge

CreatingWE had a long-time working relationship with a company that makes a well-known commercial survey tool. As business continued to grow and Judith continued to refine the coaching approach of Conversational Intelligence, CreatingWE began looking to adapt how they do business. The firm first worked with the assessment company to try and expand the tool’s usability and reframe it meet the needs of CreatingWE and its clients. However, CreatingWE soon discovered that they needed a more robust solution than this company was able to provide.

CreatingWE felt they wanted to change the tool to be more than just an assessment. At the time that the corporation started looking to grow their business, CreatingWE already offered their customers three levels of options. These options are referred to as Catalyst Tools, with the first level, Trust Catalyst the only one not based on Conversational Intelligence. All three Catalyst Tools help companies open up company-wide discussions to promote business.

Yet, CreatingWE felt constrained by their current survey tool and wanted something that could bring Conversational Intelligence and Catalyst Tools to the next level. This was the moment when the company began considering the possibilities of an app. Perhaps an app could expand business and help with improving client connection?

The Solution

After evaluating the options, the company decided to pursue a web app and outsource the development of it. According to CreatingWE, they decided to work with us for several reasons. InspiringApps felt like the right fit because of our company size and because we have a culture that focuses on collaboration and listening to customers. We also came highly recommended from other leaders in the industry.

CreatingWE found the InspiringApps development process to be an open partnership between the companies. CreatingWE wanted a number of modifications and our agile approach to app development made it easy to be receptive to those changes. Flexibility in designing the app helped CreatingWE feel confident about their app and its ability to meet customers where they need it. While pleased with the initial offering, CreatingWE also appreciates they can continue to work with us to further develop and evolve the functionality as they grow.

Results

Unlike other companies that want to incorporate apps into their business models to increase efficiency, save time, or generate more revenue, CreatingWE approached the world of mobile apps with a unique goal in mind. CreatingWE wanted an app to increase business, but also to increase the space for contact and conversation. While many consulting firms focus on acquiring new customers as they solve one-off problems for clients, CreatingWE strives to foster longer term relationships with their customers.

CreatingWE has found that the app helps its coaches maintain solid connections with clients. Also, while the company already enjoyed an international presence, having a web app has been an effective method for drawing in new businesses from home and abroad. For CreatingWE, good communication is a primary objective. So, like everything else within the company, the app needed to positively contribute to generating a culture of Conversational Intelligence.

With a long track record of helping companies improve their internal culture, CreatingWE understands how to use behavioral science to enable firms to realize their potential. The web app that InspiringApps developed and continues to update for CreatingWE shows a way that the company has expanded its business model to attract new customers and to refine the experience for current customers.

If you want to learn more about organizational behavior, or about how a web app could help with improving client connection for your company, reach out to our team today.

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Cost-Effective App From InspiringApps Sparks Positive Change in Nonprofit Experience Design

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a Colorado nonprofit using apps to advance causes. The small nonprofit has a vital cause: as populations grow, climate changes and forests shift, it’s crucial to preserve the watershed. Beyond mitigation and restoration projects, the nonprofit offers education and engagement to empower environmental stewardship and inspire action. Giving the community a free, immersive, and informative experience, the Take-a-Hike app was an ambitious project. Let’s explore. Innovation Within Reach Innovation in nonprofit experience design is often out of reach for smaller non-profits, but our design solves that challenge. InspiringApps created a cost-effective mobile app in partnership with Boulder Watershed Collective, offering an immersion into the Boulder trails system never before experienced. Available for both iOS and Android, the free Take-a-Hike app is a trail guide in your pocket. The user experience is deeply mapped to the mission: concentrate on the natural beauty of Boulder’s trails, but learn about reasons to protect them, too. With InspiringApps’ environmental stewardship app design, users can enjoy hikes internet-free while tracking their progress and learning. Collaboration & Impact True innovation comes from shared collaboration and partnership. Technology decisions can be simplified and streamlined into one cohesive process with shared collaboration. Regarding the app design process, Boulder Watershed Collective shared: “Thank you and the InspiringApps team for working with us on this and making the idea possible. I am not sure we would even have an app or an app of this quality without you and your team’s awesome work and collaboration.” Experiential Design on a Mission Experiential design goes beyond traditional design practices by considering the entire journey and environment in which the experience occurs. It aims to stimulate multiple senses to create a more immersive and impactful experience. Immersive Experience For nonprofits, digital, experiential design can create a strong impact and elicit positive change. By engaging multiple senses, Take-a-Hike offers an immersive experience that supports local climate innovators through novel ways that foster environmental stewardship. In addition to teaching hikers about their diverse environment, the entire experience educates users on the services and management decisions that aid the wetlands, forests, and mountains. Interactive Features The app’s design has two key interactive features: a map and an audio narration. As it guides hikers to different learning spots along the trail, the app uses GPS mapping and audio playback from the user’s device to create a natural connection with the outdoors. As a result of the design’s innovations, users can visually learn about points of interest along their hike, and geographically triggered audio segments play at those same points of interest automatically. Informative & Intuitive Visual Elements Visual elements are both informative and intuitive. When users select and begin a hike in the app, they see a map of their hike and the points of interest or stops along the way. As they hike to each stop, a details screen shows hikers where they are in real-time, info about that point, and the distance to the next stop. Customizable Audio Audio elements offer a high degree of control but a minimum interaction requirement to enhance outdoor experiences. Users can control the audio from their phone’s notifications panel. They can turn on an audio narration in the background, so there’s no need to interact with their phones during the hike. When approaching stops, there is audio to help hikers appreciate their surroundings, followed by silence to enable hikers to use that information while taking in bird calls and mountain views. Sustainable Iterations Through Community Engagement Built in a way that makes adding additional hikes a nominal effort, the app has enabled Boulder Watershed Collective to exponentially grow its education and outreach beyond the small staff’s capacity. Partnering within the community, the team continues to add hikes and expand its reach. Educational Reach After initially releasing the Take-a-Hike app developed by InspiringApps, Boulder Watershed Collective received additional grants. One of those was to work with a school in Lafayette to guide a podcast creation experience with students. Students contributed content that has been integrated into the app. In a testimonial from the teacher, she said: “The Boulder Watershed Collective took on the impossible. They transformed ninth graders with zero experience into podcasters. With endless patience and spectacular curricular materials, these experts led the students from ideation through a finished product. Along the way, they learned how to ask great questions, create mind maps, collaborate, and use podcasting programs. “At the end of the year, many of these students identified their work creating podcasts with the Boulder Watershed Collective as the most important experience of their academic year.” With the added Spanish translation, the app development experience has enhanced not just one set of learners but many who will follow. Holistic Approach To Cost-Effective Technology Decisions When creating a nonprofit app, it’s important to take a holistic approach, considering different angles and solutions. Nonprofit organizations seek human-centered designs, but just as in the corporate world, there are also technical and cost aspects to consider. The metrics for nonprofits differ because the end goal is impact, not profit. To create positive change, nonprofit apps use an innovative mix of: Grant or donor funding Technology Education Community engagement According to Brad Weber, CEO of InspiringApps, that cost difference can become the difference between having an app and not having an app—as many nonprofits know too well: “Our client received project bids that were six figures, which the nonprofit could not afford. With some creative app architecture, we were able to deliver an app for a fraction of that cost, which they were able to fund with government grants.” A holistic approach addresses a user’s relationship with a mobile product and their user journey from start to finish. The challenge to deliver the innovation needed for the product’s success enabled our team’s creative solutions to come alive—and deliver the immersive experience at a cost that made the project possible. To create cost-effective yet innovative solutions, focus on the core features. Instead of building everything from scratch, explore existing tools, APIs, or software development kits (SDKs) that integrate with your app. This approach can save development time and costs while providing the necessary functionality. Creating Uniquely Valuable Impact InspiringApps is driven by the opportunity to design technical solutions for causes that help our community. Building an app can ensure your organization’s core mission is front, back, and center. Keeping costs down and creating an impactful app is within reach. InspiringApps has built beautiful and engaging apps for not-for-profit organizations. We are dedicated to helping local organizations and not-for-profit clients bring their web and mobile app ideas to life at an affordable cost. Our goal is to support the growth and prosperity of our community.

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The Boulder Watershed Collective is a Colorado nonprofit using apps to advance causes. The small nonprofit has a vital cause: as populations grow, climate changes and forests shift, it’s crucial to preserve the watershed. Beyond mitigation and restoration projects, the nonprofit offers education and engagement to empower environmental stewardship and inspire action.

Giving the community a free, immersive, and informative experience, the Take-a-Hike app was an ambitious project. Let’s explore.

Innovation Within Reach

Innovation in nonprofit experience design is often out of reach for smaller non-profits, but our design solves that challenge. InspiringApps created a cost-effective mobile app in partnership with Boulder Watershed Collective, offering an immersion into the Boulder trails system never before experienced.

Available for both iOS and Android, the free Take-a-Hike app is a trail guide in your pocket. The user experience is deeply mapped to the mission: concentrate on the natural beauty of Boulder’s trails, but learn about reasons to protect them, too. With InspiringApps’ environmental stewardship app design, users can enjoy hikes internet-free while tracking their progress and learning.

Collaboration & Impact

True innovation comes from shared collaboration and partnership. Technology decisions can be simplified and streamlined into one cohesive process with shared collaboration. Regarding the app design process, Boulder Watershed Collective shared:

“Thank you and the InspiringApps team for working with us on this and making the idea possible. I am not sure we would even have an app or an app of this quality without you and your team’s awesome work and collaboration.”

Experiential Design on a Mission

Experiential design goes beyond traditional design practices by considering the entire journey and environment in which the experience occurs. It aims to stimulate multiple senses to create a more immersive and impactful experience.

Immersive Experience

For nonprofits, digital, experiential design can create a strong impact and elicit positive change. By engaging multiple senses, Take-a-Hike offers an immersive experience that supports local climate innovators through novel ways that foster environmental stewardship. In addition to teaching hikers about their diverse environment, the entire experience educates users on the services and management decisions that aid the wetlands, forests, and mountains.

Interactive Features

The app’s design has two key interactive features: a map and an audio narration. As it guides hikers to different learning spots along the trail, the app uses GPS mapping and audio playback from the user’s device to create a natural connection with the outdoors. As a result of the design’s innovations, users can visually learn about points of interest along their hike, and geographically triggered audio segments play at those same points of interest automatically.

Informative & Intuitive Visual Elements

Visual elements are both informative and intuitive. When users select and begin a hike in the app, they see a map of their hike and the points of interest or stops along the way. As they hike to each stop, a details screen shows hikers where they are in real-time, info about that point, and the distance to the next stop.

Customizable Audio

Audio elements offer a high degree of control but a minimum interaction requirement to enhance outdoor experiences.

Users can control the audio from their phone’s notifications panel.
They can turn on an audio narration in the background, so there’s no need to interact with their phones during the hike.
When approaching stops, there is audio to help hikers appreciate their surroundings, followed by silence to enable hikers to use that information while taking in bird calls and mountain views.

Sustainable Iterations Through Community Engagement

Built in a way that makes adding additional hikes a nominal effort, the app has enabled Boulder Watershed Collective to exponentially grow its education and outreach beyond the small staff’s capacity. Partnering within the community, the team continues to add hikes and expand its reach.

Educational Reach

After initially releasing the Take-a-Hike app developed by InspiringApps, Boulder Watershed Collective received additional grants. One of those was to work with a school in Lafayette to guide a podcast creation experience with students. Students contributed content that has been integrated into the app. In a testimonial from the teacher, she said:

“The Boulder Watershed Collective took on the impossible. They transformed ninth graders with zero experience into podcasters. With endless patience and spectacular curricular materials, these experts led the students from ideation through a finished product. Along the way, they learned how to ask great questions, create mind maps, collaborate, and use podcasting programs.

“At the end of the year, many of these students identified their work creating podcasts with the Boulder Watershed Collective as the most important experience of their academic year.”

With the added Spanish translation, the app development experience has enhanced not just one set of learners but many who will follow.

Holistic Approach To Cost-Effective Technology Decisions

When creating a nonprofit app, it’s important to take a holistic approach, considering different angles and solutions. Nonprofit organizations seek human-centered designs, but just as in the corporate world, there are also technical and cost aspects to consider.

The metrics for nonprofits differ because the end goal is impact, not profit. To create positive change, nonprofit apps use an innovative mix of:

Grant or donor funding
Technology
Education
Community engagement

According to Brad Weber, CEO of InspiringApps, that cost difference can become the difference between having an app and not having an app—as many nonprofits know too well:

“Our client received project bids that were six figures, which the nonprofit could not afford. With some creative app architecture, we were able to deliver an app for a fraction of that cost, which they were able to fund with government grants.”

A holistic approach addresses a user’s relationship with a mobile product and their user journey from start to finish. The challenge to deliver the innovation needed for the product’s success enabled our team’s creative solutions to come alive—and deliver the immersive experience at a cost that made the project possible.

To create cost-effective yet innovative solutions, focus on the core features. Instead of building everything from scratch, explore existing tools, APIs, or software development kits (SDKs) that integrate with your app. This approach can save development time and costs while providing the necessary functionality.

Creating Uniquely Valuable Impact

InspiringApps is driven by the opportunity to design technical solutions for causes that help our community. Building an app can ensure your organization’s core mission is front, back, and center. Keeping costs down and creating an impactful app is within reach.

InspiringApps has built beautiful and engaging apps for not-for-profit organizations. We are dedicated to helping local organizations and not-for-profit clients bring their web and mobile app ideas to life at an affordable cost. Our goal is to support the growth and prosperity of our community.

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Apps We Love: Explore Orion

In this series of Apps We Love, InspiringApps announces our latest project: the Explore Orion app. Inspiration is what we do—after all, “inspiring” is in our name. When our employees are inspired to do their best work, our entire company feels the impact. And when the projects we build inspire our clients, the results are out of this world. Hop Along Artemis on a Mission That’s Out of This World With the Artemis missions, Orion will take humanity back to the Moon—and the Explore Orion app lets users hop on board. In the free Explore Orion mobile app developed by InspiringApps, users can explore the Artemis I mission and watch behind-the-scenes content about the Orion spacecraft and the mission. Users can also interact with Callisto, the exciting new technology that delivers messages into outer space. Explore Orion App Features The Explore Orion app is available for download for free on the App Store and Google Play. App features include: A 3D model viewer of the Orion spacecraft. Interesting factoids about the Orion spacecraft and the Artemis missions. Interactive trivia to test users’ knowledge about Orion. An interactive timeline showcasing Orion’s development and the Artemis I mission milestones with relevant events and information. A video library of content related to Orion and Artemis. Callisto integration enabling users to send messages to Orion during its Artemis I flight to the Moon. Callisto: Send Messages to the Moon & Beyond One of the payloads flying on the Artemis I mission is Callisto—a unique system powered by AI, voice, and video conferencing technology. Callisto is space-grade technology that provides a virtual connection to people and information back on Earth. Sending a message to outer space is just within reach. Anyone can send a personal message to Callisto through the Explore Orion app. Ready for Launch What does the future hold for space-grade technology? The InspiringApps team is honored to help build the tech tools to help get us there. We’re eager to blaze the path for launching emerging technology. We’re working with the leading pioneers in this world and beyond. Wherever the future is moving, we invite you to join us.

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