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Utilizing analytics and data gathered through extensive research, Codal creates digital products tailored to your customers, ensuring the finished solution caters to all user types. 

Leverage elegant, intelligent, and immersive digital experiences tailored to your customers’ wants and needs, as well as your business goals.

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Whether you’re collaborating with your internal team or outsourcing, here are 5 questions you should ask to make sure everyone is on the same page.

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In software development—just like any other area of business—communication is key. When teams fail to communicate properly, they jeopardize their ability to collaborate effectively, work efficiently, and meet expectations. Facilitating communication and transparency doesn’t just make people’s lives easier, it results in projects being completed faster and with fewer bugs and errors.

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Wondering why your project needs a feature list, or why the Discovery phase of the Agile process is so important? Codal's here with the answers.

What’s A Feature List, And Why Do I Need One? - Codal

Project kickoff is an exciting time. Finally, after diligently comparing vendors, weighing options, and getting the paperwork approved, it’s time for your platform to take shape, for your idea to come to fruition.

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BUILDING B2B PORTALS WITH BIGCOMMERCE

Interested in learning more about how BigCommerce and Codal can help transform your company’s B2B sales process? Download our free whitepaper today!

Building B2B Portals with BigCommerce Whitepaper | Codal

BigCommerce provides businesses with the tools they need to build intuitive, engaging, and secure online experiences for their customers.

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Our team leverages market research, internal data, and extensive user experience (UX) testing to design a UI that exceeds your users’ needs and expectations—with helpful features and content, beautiful page layouts, and intuitive navigation.

User interface (UI) design

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To solve problems and create new opportunities for your business and its customers, we build mobile apps through an in-depth design and development sprint process—known for maximizing efficiency and meeting deadlines.

App development

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After diving deep into your business, its customers, and the surrounding market, we can begin to design digital products that solve problems and create new opportunities.

Discovery 

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Every product we build—from mobile apps to B2B portals—starts with a detailed strategy that accommodates your project timeline and budget.

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Through market research, stakeholder interviews, and test findings, our UX design team creates and iterates on wireframes to effectively meet your business’ identified needs.

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With wireframes that provide a firm grasp of the project requirements, our developers work efficiently and effectively to deliver exceptional results. 

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Codal provides long-term technical and strategic support for the products we build, allowing your business to maintain efficiency and productivity as it scales.

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Redesigning an internal compliance tool for a firm with 1.8 million clients

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Looking to stay competitive in the rapidly digitizing financial sector, Charles Schwab enlisted Codal’s services to redesign one of its many internal web applications.

The Project

Charles Schwab needed to revamp its internal compliance solution, SchwabCT, with a user-focused, data-driven approach. 

Clients use the tool to automate highly manual, time-consuming tasks related to monitoring employee trading activity and to ultimately uphold their organization’s code of ethics. The legacy platform was slow and cumbersome, with over 550 separate screens for users to navigate through, creating workflow bottlenecks for both clients and Shwab employees.  

The Challenge

To gain a deeper understanding of Charles Schwab’s compliance solution and its users’ pain points, Codal kicked off the project with a rigorous Discovery phase. 

We analyzed the underlying technology to identify outdated software that could use modernization. And because our team prioritizes the end-user so heavily, we conducted a slew of user interviews and surveys, extending our scope from prospective clients to Schwab employees. 

From our technical audit, research, and interviews, Codal’s UX design team collected a wealth of both qualitative and quantitative data regarding the issues and opportunities of SchwabCT, then triaged them accordingly.

Discovery

Through a series of design sprints, our team built prototypes for the platform’s new user experience. Then, diving deeper into UX research, Codal attended a national Charles Schwab compliance conference to demonstrate the early prototypes and collect feedback from real users of the web application. 

From this feedback, we were able to transform common user expectations and frustrations into strategic platform updates, while continuing to address the web application’s bedrock issues. We also learned about desired functionalities that were completely missing from the platform, which we then included in our next round of prototyping and testing. 

Development

Codal transformed the outdated, complex technology into an extremely intuitive and aesthetically-pleasing web application. 

Once the project was finished, we had simplified SchwabCT by revamping the platform’s information architecture, consolidating over 550 separate screens into a mere 7 templates. This tool continues to help organizations grow by streamlining financial compliance via workflow automation and superior UX design. 

The Result

Explore Codal’s digital products and discover how Codal served Charles Schwab through data-driven, market-tested web application development.

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Connecting culinary buyers and sellers with an effortless shopping experience.

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Orderve needed a trusted partner to help build its cutting-edge culinary marketplace. With its internal team constructing the eCommerce backend, Orderve was seeking an agency to design and implement an innovative UX/UI. The goal was to ensure a sleek, contemporary edge and effortless navigation for all user types.

Founded in 2018, Orderve is an online marketplace dedicated to connecting culinary buyers and sellers. Chefs and restaurateurs seeking high-quality ingredients in bulk can purchase directly from sellers, with Orderve seamlessly handling the complex logistics. Its easy-to-use platform saves users time and effort, helping buyers to continue crafting excellent dishes and sellers to provide the superior ingredients that inspire them.

Intro

In order to connect culinary buyers and sellers in a convenient manner, and facilitate the sale of high-quality food products, Orderve needed an elegant and intelligent eCommerce site. With a unique, engaging visual identity, a strong UX, and a comprehensive set of features essential to the success of the site, Codal’s work was cut out for us.

Codal began by initiating an extensive discovery phase in collaboration with the Orderve team. This phase is much more than a simple project kickoff. Rather, it involves comprehensive research and iteration and seeks to lay the foundation for the project’s strategy and overall design. 

As part of this phase, Codal’s UI designers crafted a unique and engaging visual identity for Orderve. Working in close collaboration with the Orderve team, Codal designers determined key differentiating factors for the brand and used these factors to design and iterate on visual assets that would make the website eye-catching and aesthetically pleasing for users. Codal’s UI team created an extensive brand guide outlining the composition, as well as the look-and-feel of Orderve’s website. Featuring modern typography, a simple color palette, and imagery focused on quality food, the brand guide serves to create a seamless, clean visual identity for Orderve. After creating the brand guide, Codal’s UI designers implemented its provisions to create homepage concepts for Orderve’s website.

Meanwhile, the Codal UX team worked to determine a viable feature list for Orderve’s site to bring it to market in the fastest, most efficient way possible. Orderve provided the UX team with extensive market and UX research, which was combed through to determine the essential features, functionality, and layout that would make Orderve successful at launch. Working with Orderve stakeholders and the site’s eCommerce platform provider to identify priorities and capabilities, Codal assembled a feature list that would serve as the roadmap for building an elegant, intelligent website.

Strategy

Upon completing the discovery phase, Codal understood the unique value proposition of Orderve's service offerings to chefs, restaurateurs, and product sellers. It became clear that showcasing the integrity of a brand that is synonymous with success within the service industry was essential to the success of the project. With this in mind, the Codal team initiated the development phase.

Codal’s designers worked onsite in Orderve’s Chicago office. This established a great rapport with Orderve stakeholders, as Codal’s designers were very transparent about our process and deadlines. Orderve was able to see Codal’s progress in real-time. Together, Codal and Orderve reviewed designs and participated in collaborative workshops to solve some of the bigger challenges of the site, like implementing smart product categorization, creating the logic to manage transactions, and ideating on visual branding. This was not your typical client-agency relationship.

Design

Using a waterfall approach, the Codal UX team created wireframes for modules across desktop and mobile. These wireframes were then handed off to Codal’s UI designers to implement Orderve’s visual assets and create high-fidelity mockups. As each module was completed at both the wireframe and high-fidelity levels, Codal’s UX and UI designers reviewed the Orderve team and made iterations as necessary.

After launching the initial site, Codal worked to maintain and refine based on new requirements and new information about how users were interacting with Orderve. A number of fixes and enhancements were incorporated based on user research conducted by Codal and Orderve. The Codal team restructured the product detail pages (PDPs) to cater more to B2B users, revamping buy boxes, adjusting product measurement units, adjusting how shipping estimates are displayed, and more. Codal also revamped categorization as Orderve continued to add more and more products, creating smart intermediary category pages (ICPs) to help users easily navigate through 10,000+ products to find exactly what they are looking for.

See how Codal designed a marketplace that connects culinary buyers and sellers with an effortless shopping experience for Orderve.

Culinary Marketplace Design Case Study | Orderve

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Whether you’re building a new website, mobile application, internal business platform, or any other digital product, Codal is here to guide you through the process with speed and efficiency. Using advanced technologies and a data-based approach, our award-winning designers and developers create solutions that facilitate practical and meaningful experiences for your business’ customers, employees, and stakeholders. This means stronger user engagement, streamlined workflows, fewer support issues, and optimized revenue. 

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200+ clients, millions of end users, and billions of dollars in business growth. We’re an award-winning firm that’s worked with some of the biggest brands in the world. 

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Our lean, interdisciplinary teams help you bring innovative digital solutions to market at scale. Drawing on a variety of perspectives, qualifications, and strategies, we make true strategic digital transformation a reality.

From UX design and mobile app development, to digital transformation and data strategy, explore the consulting services and solutions Codal has to offer.

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We help your business launch digital commerce experiences that drive sales and create genuine customer delight.

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For more than a decade, Codal has been helping businesses thrive in the eCommerce landscape. With superior UX/UI design, we give your business the tools it needs to enhance its digital presence, expand its customer base, as well as create and manage additional streams of revenue. By establishing a sophisticated and agile eCommerce tech stack, we ensure scalability, so your business can rapidly adapt to new industry trends, consumer behaviors, and emerging technologies. Codal is currently a trusted partner of both Shopify and BigCommerce—two of the top eCommerce platforms on the market today. 

Our eCommerce solutions

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Codal drives strategic process improvements and best practices to help you successfully deliver quality services to customers. 

Launch seamless and intuitive digital journeys that cater to users of all types and help you forge more meaningful connections with customers.

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Our service design process

With the right blend of people, processes, and technology, your business can unlock its full potential—and that’s where Codal’s service design team comes in. We integrate sophisticated digital technologies with various back- and front-end systems to enhance the user experience (UX) and streamline internal workflows. Effective service design enables stronger communication between your business, its customers, and its third-party service providers, so you can continuously refine processes and optimize revenue as you scale. 

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Collecting, visualizing, and analyzing massive amounts of data to discover actionable insights is a crucial part of creating a sound business strategy.

Harness the power of data to drive strategic decisions, uncover opportunities, and support the overall success of your business.

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Every growing business needs a strategy for collecting and analyzing data. But with so many different approaches and available technologies, it can be difficult to know where to start, or how to get more value from your current tools. Codal can help your business uncover new opportunities, drive strategic decisions, and optimize revenue by harnessing the power of data.

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We stand up intelligent, cost-effective microservices architectures that let businesses achieve true scalability.

Go to market faster with a platform that’s flexible, designed to scale, and provides long-term value.

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Our microservice architecture process

Trading in your business’ monolithic system for a microservices architecture can come with many benefits, such as greater programming flexibility, the ability for development teams to work independently of each other, and a faster time-to-market for application modifications. Codal helps determine whether or not microservices are right for your business, then creates a roadmap for success. We implement microservices to enhance the overall agility, scalability, and security of your business—resulting in lower costs, streamlined workflows, and optimized revenue.

Our microservices architecture solutions

Wondering if trading in your monolithic system for a microservices architecture is best for your business? Codal can help.

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Codal can guide your business through a hassle-free transition from the old to the upgraded, allowing you to migrate systems and solutions without the hassle.

Modernize your legacy technology and guide your business through a hassle-free transition from the old to the upgraded.

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The process of switching from a legacy platform to a more advanced solution—without disrupting your business’ customer experience or internal workflows—requires significant time, resources, and technical expertise. Our award-winning team collaborates with the key players on your end to determine which platforms and tools are best suited for your scaling business. Then we execute the new platform transition and integrate any third-party solutions, establishing a technological infrastructure that supports efficient UX updates, robust security, and superior data analytics.