PixelPaint

Rich Fraser of PixelPaint ™: “Bringing your creation to life”.

We were having a nightmare with outsourcing in Indonesia. Sure it was cheap, but the amount of extra overhead caused by communication problems, poor quality code and fixing disastrous deployments really wasn’t working for us. It turned out to be a very false economy so we decided to try and find a local developer.

Right from our initial meeting with Enspiral the developers have been adept at putting our ideas and frustrations into technical action points. Their intelligent suggestions help us make better cost/benefit decisions and our weekly progress meetings keep everything on track.

We would definitely recommend Enspiral to others. We’ve been extremely impressed with their technical ability, commitment and dedication, as well as their uncanny ability to ensure projects and solutions to emergencies are delivered on time. They understand urgency and I love that we can rely on them to go the extra mile when we need to. I swear they never sleep!

Passionfruit

Ezra Keddel of Passionfruit online media web design and development company: “double the way your clients view the value of your company”.

Enspiral has a very open strategy when it comes to their company with a social conscience which is very attractive. The way Enspiral wants to open up company structures seems very synonymous with the web and I see lots of parallels to what the internet has done for knowledge and communication.

One highlight of Enspiral is Ruby on Rails! What a great way of building a website/application. I would absolutely would work with Enspiral again.

ShowGizmo

Marie-Claire Andrews of ShowGizmo: “The smartphone app for any event”.

I picked Enspiral because I picked Josh and Sam. They were calm beacons of technical insight in a storm of I-have-no-idea-what-to-do-next. They picked up a challenge and dealt to it with cheery gusto. They’re different because they care about the context for the work – they know why something matters from a business perspective so they always create just what’s really needed – and for non-technical founders that’s a godsend.

Sam has an ability to create something from nothing (well from lots of bits and bobs). Late night skypes and brainstorms, flexible and transparent working arrangements, and they truly rose to the occasion when we hit a funding wall and still needed their time. Despite being on contract, Enspiral have always been core team members.

I’d definitely work with Enspiral again (we still are!) but would love to see their own projects come to fruition. I hope that they can continue to build a flexible resource base for growing, cash-strapped start ups as well as find the time to create their own enterprises.

It’s been a meteoric year that we’ve known the team – they’ve changed and we have too. When we met Enspiral it was really Josh and Sam in a tiny shoe-box office! So I’m really impressed with the energy that Josh has, and continues to has – that attracts such awesome people.

Parents Voice

Parents Voice is an online community of parents, whānau and caregivers who want to improve the food and physical activity environments of New Zealand children.

Enspiral partnered with The Cancer Society, Te Hotu Manawa Māori, and Fight the Obesity Epidemic to create the Parents Voice identity and website.

The concept was based on the well established Australian Parent’s Jury, but we went back to the drawing board with the information architecture and visual design.

The fun, colourful brand and intuitive user interface were developed to appeal to a wide demographic of parents, grandparents, and guardians, with emphasis on the discussion forums, surveys, and current news.

Right now the Parents Voice is just beginning to build momentum so if you have an interest in the health of our kids (and face it who doesn’t?) check out www.parentsvoice.org.nz or like them on their Facebook page!

The New Zealand Guidelines Group

The New Zealand Guidelines Group needed a professional online presentation to support their work in the NZ health sector. The Enspiral information architecture & conceptual design team worked with NZGG in a series of workshops to establish a joint understanding of all requirements, work iteratively towards a well balanced sitemap and to create wireframes that document a new information architecture.

As NZGG branding was outdated, the design phase was started by refreshing the corporate design and designing a new NZGG logo. The underlying creative brief allowed for a seamless transition into the visual design phase, resulting in a new look & feel that continues to be praised by NZGG audiences.

The new NZGG website is focused around a meaningful & easy to search library of evidence-based research on health topics. Enspiral’s solution leverages the Refinery CMS platform, with integration of the DDP E-Book reader module as well as the Apache Solr search engine. A members area was created, allowing health practitioners to bookmark publications of interest and easily access resources according to their fields of interest and established favourites.