Get it done people!

Runn and Paloma together set out to create a user experience and interface more closely aligned to contemporary productivity and management apps over what the current status quo of scheduling and resourcing products have to offer.

To achieve this beautiful experience and interface, we helped develop a clear hierarchy of information, simple and friendly access to the main features and clear and accessible colour palette to boot. The result is a friendly and naturally usable web application.

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Finding a balance
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Paloma also has had the opportunity to contribute to certain areas of marketing and the Runn website. Through workshops, exploring the idea of fragmentation becoming cohesion became a clear driving force and is depicted metaphorically through the use of a tangram – an ancient Chinese puzzle where by pieces come together in harmony to form a larger more impressive element, much like that of a modern project-based business.

Pheobe Morris created a range of illustrations to bring a friendly, human element to Runn, and custom icons help quickly define further features throughout the website.

Runn-ing Smooth
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We built Runn with a tech stack that allows the web app to smoothly handle different kinds of forecasting and project data.

The backend is built in Ruby on Rails, a scalable, well supported and secure web application framework. Ruby on Rails is used by some of the world’s largest companies like Airbnb, Shopify and Bloomberg.

We choose React to build the frontend of Runn as it ensures faster rendering of dynamic web pages and also has a helpful developer toolset. Relay and GraphQL let our frontend components fetch the data they need to display.

We host Runn on Heroku because it's fast and effective for deploying and scaling web applications. To ensure our code is bug-free we build and test it before deployment with CircleCI, the continuous integration and delivery platform.

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