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At Second Form, we believe opportunity would be limitless if we could empower everyone with
technology, without technology getting in the way.
Welcome to our world.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE.
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LET’S MAKE THE WEB EFFORTLESS, TOGETHER.
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda
We help people build, improve, and support websites and apps.
We build websites and apps that
make businesses faster, improve
user experiences to increase
performance, and support
technology so customers are never
let down.
Build
Improve
Support
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Half of my website works. I just don’t know which half.
You’re ready to increase the performance of your website or app. But you
might not know where to start. Or worse, you might have doubts that the
direction you’ve taken isn’t getting the results you were expecting.
Improving how your website or app works doesn’t always have to be scary or
involve a costly redesign from the ground up. We’ll help you improve your user
experiences strategically, without guesswork.
We’ll help you improve your user experiences with our design framework, Active Design.
UNPACK
Design with people, for people.
We get in the middle of the problem so we can unpack it first hand. We’ll
engage with your users, key team leaders, and other team members to
experience the user journey, unpack information architectures, and sketch
high-level concepts to visualize the problem.
UNDERSTAND
Build a roadmap for growth.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Good ideas, the ones you need, are formed from
a clear understanding of the problem. We’ll prototype concepts with you
quickly, finding the optimal path for growth. Moving quickly means rapid
iterations and close collaboration.
UNLEASH
From process to progress.
You can’t learn to ride a bike by reading a book. We’ll validate solutions
through user testing. After launch, we’ll collect user data to fuel insights for
continued improvement.
[Design] is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
STRONGER PERFORMANCE.
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Build powerful web technology to make your business faster.
From prototype to launch, we work with organizations to seamlessly fit
their digital strategy with powerful web technologies. Our team is focused
on helping you accelerate your business by delivering beautiful digital
experiences that pack a punch.
With Drupal and other open frameworks, we deliver powerful websites and apps.
When you combine Drupal with
other open frameworks, you have a
solution stack that delivers on any
digital challenge you can throw at it.
Marketing websitesCustom business
workflows and systems
Technology integrations and data management
Community websitesE-commerce systems
Automation systems
Drupal is a free, open-source web
development platform for online content
and user communities. Drupal runs over
a million sites, including
WhiteHouse.gov, World Economic Forum,
Stanford University, and Examiner.com.
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS,
and JavaScript framework for developing
responsive, mobile-first web sites.
Sass is the most mature, stable, and
powerful professional grade CSS
extension language in the world.
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich
JavaScript library.
AngularJS is a structural framework for
dynamic web apps.
Grunt is a task-based command line build
tool for JavaScript projects.
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ACCELERATE YOUR BUSINESS.
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Out of the box thinking with an in the box framework.
People engage with us to help support the digital experience of their
organization by creating website features you can’t get out of the
box. To make this fast to build and easy to maintain, we use Drupal.
The flexibility inside Drupal allows us to design everything from
marketing sites to enterprise applications.
Considered one of the most flexible and powerful content
management frameworks (CMF) available for developing complex
enterprise websites, Drupal wasn’t originally conceived as a CMF.
The system’s founder, Dries Buytaert, wrote what would eventually
become Drupal as message board software in 1999 while attending
the University of Antwerp. It wasn’t until 2001, when Buytaert
founded the Drupal open source project, that his software took on its
current name and iconic “drop” mark.
Drupal is perfectly suited for building highly customized, easy content
management solutions. Based on Drupal’s open and modular architecture,
complex websites and features can be rapidly developed, saving time and
money. Drupal allows us to harness the power to accelerate your business.
We partner with Acquia, a SaaS company cofounded by Drupal’s creator,
Dries Buytaert, that provides enterprise level hosting, services, and technical
support for Drupal.
Acquia was named the Fastest Growing Private Technology Company in
North America by Deloitte in 2013, and remained on the list in 2014. Gartner
recognized Acquia as a Leader in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web
Content Management and a Strong Performer in the 2015 Forrester Wave for
Web Content Management Systems.
A Drupal install gives us a lot of velocity right from the start.
Second Form team member, Ian Sholtys
The advantages of Drupal
Flexible architecture. Highly
customizable to your exact business
requirements.
Open data. Drupal works with other sites
via RSS, RDF and other standard data
formats.
Enterprise class security. Drupal’s
security system is trusted by
whitehouse.gov and many other
government organizations.
Expandable. Adding features can be as
easy as plugging in and configuring a new
module.
Easy management. Manage content
easily by internal teams.
Open development. Drupal’s open-
source license and well-documented API
remove all limits.
Accelerate development. Reduced
development time and costs means
faster delivery.
Rich community. Drupal is supported by
thousands of developers throughout the
world.
Georgia.gov completed its design and
migration of 55 sites to the Drupal
platform and is estimated that the
move to Drupal and Acquia Cloud will
generate a savings of $4.7 million over
the next five years. Also, the move to
cloud hosting will allow Georgia.gov
to free itself from managing at least 20
servers.
DRUPAL EVERYTHING.
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We support your technology systems so you never let users down.
Your users rely on you to deliver. We offer support for LAMP technology
stacks, Drupal, and Django so the systems you rely on don’t fail. If the
unforeseen happens, we’ll be there to support your business.
NEVER DISAPPOINT.
Technical support offerings
Server maintenance and troubleshooting
SSL certificate installation and upgrades
Ubuntu server upgrades and
configuration
Apache configuration and upgrades
MySQL configuration and upgrades
PHP configuration and upgrades
Drupal support offerings
Legacy system to Drupal migrations
Drupal core and modules updates
Drupal security updates
System configurations and maintenance
Data backups
Website maintenance
Hosting migrations
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An inexperienced observer sees everything in a picture; the experienced one sees even the things that are missing.
Rastko Ciric
GET STARTED.
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Here’s how we’ll design together.
Creating the perfect software design plan is impossible. Why? The reality is,
challenges and new ideas will materialize as you design. Change is inevitable.
Sometimes when the unexpected happens, it changes your roadmap. So if you
attempt to plan everything up front, you’ll be locked into a direction that could
have limited returns.
There’s a better way to design websites and apps. One that’s iterative,
flexible, and much more collaborative. We moved to this model a long time
ago to deliver higher value for our clients.
Our approach to software design is based on the Scrum methodology.
Scrum involves specific roles, artifacts and events that we’ll go over before we
begin. All you need to know now is that Scrum allows us to deliver working
software on a regular basis, the space to continually assess what your
business needs most as we go, and the ability to improve our collaboration as
it continues.
Your first step—Our design workshop
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We operate under the principles of the Agile Manifesto
Our highest priority is to satisfy the
customer through early and continuous
delivery of valuable software.
We welcome changing requirements,
even late in development. Agile
processes harness change for the
customer’s competitive advantage.
Our team delivers working software
frequently, from a couple of weeks to a
couple of months, with a preference to
the shorter timescale.
Business people and developers must
work together daily throughout the
project.
It’s critical to build projects around
motivated individuals. Give them the
environment and support they need, and
trust them to get the job done.
The most efficient and effective method
of conveying information to and within
a development team is face-to-face
conversation.
Working software is the primary measure
of progress.
Agile processes promote sustainable
development. The sponsors, developers,
and users should be able to maintain a
constant pace indefinitely.
Continuous attention to technical
excellence and good design enhances
agility.
Simplicity—the art of maximizing the
amount of work not done—is essential.
The best architectures, requirements,
and designs emerge from self-organizing
teams.
At regular intervals, the team reflects
on how to become more effective,
then tunes and adjusts its behavior
accordingly.
YOUR PATH TO GREATNESS.
Goals for your design workshop
Unpack your business values and goals
Understand your user needs/desires
Create hypotheses and outcomes
statements
Create personas to serve as user targets
Create user stories and link them to the
hypotheses and outcomes
Create high concept user flows in low-
fi prototypes to synthesize the user
experience and technical requirements
Assess and recommend a technical
solution
Present the plans and price for the
features described in your user stories
Plan the start date for the first sprint
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To push the boundaries, you need to know where the edges are.
Mark Boulton
WHY SECOND FORM?
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We get up in the morning because we’re the crazy folks who still, after so many years, love what we do.
We work with people that we call friends because we believe that honest-
to-goodness relationships are what move businesses, including ours,
forward. We begin every conversation by listening because we know that
there’s always more than one way to get things done. We create compelling
digital experiences because the world doesn’t need another cold and lifeless
website. We strategize with our heads and design with our hearts because the
combination delivers work that works.
Why partner with Second Form?
We’re passionate about business.
The entrepreneur spirit is in our blood.
Creating market leading, competitive
advantages is our focus.
We’re dedicated to people. We know
people make all the difference, whether
it’s your customers or employees.
Ultimately, everything we do is to serve
them.
We use design and technology to
empower your business. Design and
technology allows us to solve challenging
problems while embracing constraints.
He’s an adrenaline junkie but blood
makes him faint. He’ll sing if you ask
him nicely. He’s still learning how to be
a soccer player, but he’s a pro at being a
leader. And he’s successfully led his team
to design experiences and tell stories on
behalf of big brands for over 10 years.
Stephan Barrett
She’s a human calculator with a freaky
photographic memory. She’s a great
baker. And she’s done more in her career
than she ever thought possible. But
she just recently achieved her greatest
accomplishment, her beautiful son, Liam.
Kelly Dassing
He’s good in the kitchen but doesn’t
like to try new food. He’s passionate
about computer graphics beyond the
pretty pictures. He’s a self-proclaimed
pixel policeman. And as our Production
Manager, his server is more powerful
than your server.
Ian Sholtys
He buys video games and doesn’t play
them. He listens to Madonna and isn’t
afraid to admit it. His cooking skills are
questionable. But his interactive skills
aren’t – he develops responsive features
and writes flex sliders to a whole new
shade of cool.
Chris Aram
He’s a travel junkie with the guts to
jump out of a plane. He’s a natural born
storyteller. He was a filmmaker in his
former life. And he even starred in one
– a reenactment of Raiders of the Lost
Ark in his childhood neighborhood. No
autographs please.
Bryan Thomas
He can easily drink over 8 cups of coffee
a day. He still writes fluently in Chinese.
But he codes in just about every language
ever developed. Oh, and he only checks
his Facebook once a year. Wait, HE ONLY
CHECKS HIS FACEBOOK ONCE A YEAR?!?
Glenn Chen
The Second Form teamOUR WORK SAYS A LOT ABOUT US.
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Design is the discipline of creating value where it currently doesn’t exist.
Whether you’re crafting a tweet, film, product, or communication strategy,
design seeks to add significance to the substance of the medium for people.
Design embraces constraints, which often fuels creativity to seek out the best
outcome possible. Second Form is a design-driven company. We use the tools
of design-thinkers—observation, imagination, and configuration—to find new
ways to solve old problems. We believe this approach creates best-in-class
digital products and services for users.
Which project is my favorite? The answer is always the same—the next one.
Sohrab Vossoughi
Founder Ziba Design
The tools of design thinkers
Observation
In order to understand an audience,
environment, or user, the design thinker
must watch and listen in a way that’s
responsive to the subject and in their
environment. The insights gained in this
fashion will enable the design thinker
to create new levels of knowledge
about a specific challenge, leading to a
transformative solution.
Imagination
Design thinkers programmatically hone
their imagination into a powerful tool,
comprised of inference and testing
loop. When faced with inconsistent
information found through observation,
inference is the hunch to explain the
reasoning behind the data without
statistically significant proof. The design
thinker tests the breakthrough inference
by producing a prototype and observing
whether it operates as desired.
Configuration
Configuration is the act of translating
an idea into an activity system that will
produce the desired business outcome. In
other words, this is the integration of the
new idea into the design of your business
to achieve a result that the current design
of the business could not produce.
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Case story: Celebration Health Assessment
The ultimate health experience.
Celebration Health Assessment (CHA) is part of Florida Hospital, the number
one ranked hospital in Florida. Their business is brilliant—a holistic and
personal approach to wellness that targets the mind, body, and soul for
Fortune 500 executives. The results are immediate and the experience is
unlike any other doctor’s office visit.
The doctor is in.
When we peeked behind the scenes at CHA and listened to their patients,
there was a universal theme. It wasn’t about the state-of-the-art technology
or the resort-like atmosphere. CHA is a place of empowerment. Execs visit to
feel their best so they can perform at their best. These are the values we used
to bring the campaign to life.
Success first. Health never.
Executives on top of their game have
one thing in common, they neglect their
health. It takes time to visit the doctor
and they simply don’t have it. They push
through aches and pains, which leads to
bigger trouble later in life.
High Performance.
Because the strategy was about patient results over quality of care, we
focused on the CEO at the top of his game. We crafted the story around the
feeling of optimal health, the success-with-no-limits place we could take
them to when they were at their absolute healthiest. Paired with a simplified
menu of offerings and explanation of the program, not even the busiest CEO
could resist.
The results are in the patient. Not the
quality of care.
The CHA campaign strategy.
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Case story: Smile Expressions
Designing a different dental experience.
There are far fewer things people look forward to less than a dentist
appointment. That big chair. The dreaded drill. The gurgling and grinding and
shiny sharp tools coming at you. But in a bright, cheerful office in Orlando,
there’s a group called Smile Expressions who refuse to believe it has to be this
way.
Facing fears.
This story is a tough one to change. Dental fears and big chair horror stories
have been around for a very long time. Images of stark white coats and scary
instruments fill the heads of patients almost instantly upon scheduling an
appointment.
Flipping the script.
The experience isn’t about the chair, the
drill, or even the procedure. It’s about
the patient. When the patient comes
first, comfort comes standard. Education
leads. And fear melts away.
Something to smile about.
From the moment you arrive on the homepage, Smile Expressions feels
different. The story begins at the movie theater, giving visitors a unique first
impression. We achieved this with a custom photo shoot and then designed a
fun environment that is about happy experiences, not cavities and extractions.
And we connected the concept with copy, giving Smile Expressions its own
brand language.
Take the focus off the chair, and onto
the patient.
The Smile Expressions campaign strategy.
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References
Chris Turck Owner, Hart & Huntington Orlando
407.493.6837
Marjorie Suddard, Co-founder, Motorsport Marketing
386.239.0523
Ben Yonge President, EquityPro
407.203.6860
Stories from our clients
I did my homework when it came to
researching who would be the best
company to design and develop our
website. I was looking for a creative
team with plenty of experience in
website design, brand development, SEO,
strategic marketing and most importantly
great communication skills. I found all
of those qualities and more with Second
Form. Our brand message is clearly
communicated through our site while
allowing customers to find us with ease.
Thanks to the team at Second Form, Hart
& Huntington Tattoo Orlando continues
to be an industry leader!
Chris Turck
Owner Hart & Huntington Orlando
We have been working with Second
Form for over two years now, and the
experience has been very positive. We
have found Stephan and his team to be
very responsive to our needs, and very
communicative, so that it truly feels like
a partnership. As a result, we’re seeing
increased sales, longer visit times on site,
and we have a clearer understanding of
how users want and need to navigate. I
would highly recommend Second Form’s
services, and as a plus, they are just plain
pleasant and helpful folks.
Marjorie Suddard
Co-founder Motorsport Marketing
I took a sneak peak really quick at the
website this morning and was “BLOWN
AWAY” by how good the application
page looks. Your team has done such a
fantastic job and I couldn’t possibly be
any more happy with Second Form and all
of the excellent work they have put into
this project. Thanks again!
Kolby Norris
Operations Manager Sterling Finance Company
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