Turing is an agile product design & development company
We build award-winning, user-experience focused web & mobile applications.
Booshaka
branding ui ux
Booshaka approached us to complete a rebrand of the company and redesign their website and flagship social feed optimization product. We worked closely with the founder to deliver a complete suite of design.
Everloop
branding ui software devops
Everloop's founders approached us with an idea for a safe social network for tweens. We worked together through repeated iterations on the product to build a service enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of users, while maintaining strict regulatory compliance with COPPA. We're proud to have been with Everloop from pre-seed, through winning DEMO 2010 for Social Media, 2010 ONHollywood, Digital Media, 2010 & 2011 AlwaysON Global 250, and the recent completion of a $3.1M round of funding.
Jetstream
branding ui software devops mobile
Jetstream is a travel social network that allows mobile users to share stories and photos as they travel, connect with travelers near them, and match future travel plans with people in their networks. We designed the brand and interfaces, then built the platform and iPhone app.
Instaminder
branding ui mobile
Pocket Awesome approached us to complete branding & interface design for their product Instam!nder, which is the fastest way to enter reminders that appear on all of your devices, including your computer.
Third Way
branding ui cms software devops
Third Way is a think tank that answers America’s challenges with modern ideas aimed at the center, and is a long-term Turing client. We've helped them with branding, ui design, software development, content management and related projects since 2005.
Scott & Salmanowitz
branding cms
Scott & Salmanowitz is a firm of pragmatic problem solvers focused on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, restructurings, and other corporate transactions - we completed a re-branding and cms project for them.
ZEN Entertainment
ui software
ZEN builds B2B branded casino-style Windows games and wanted to expand into the online gaming market. Turing developed a robust Scala/JRuby middleware to their legacy Java poker engine API, designed an engaging HTML5/CSS3 game interface, then scaled the application to thousands of concurrent real-time connections per machine.
Telluride Film Festival
ui cms software devops
The Telluride Film Festival "represents the rarest jewel in the crown of the festival-going experience." It is a wonderful festival, and our client since 2004. We built the new site, a vodcasting system, and a ticket purchasing system for the festival. We redesign the site every year based on the festival poster; past years have been based on art from Maira Kalman, Dave McKean, John Canemaker, Laurie Anderson, William Wegman, and Ralph Eggleston.
The Turing Team.
Turing is headquartered in Berkeley, CA. Our award-winning team is globally distributed, although most of us are on the West Coast in California and Oregon. Our global footprint and US base allow us to continue development on a 24-hour cycle.
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Alexander Black
CEO & Creative Director -
Hans Friedrich
CTO -
Toby Keller
UX Director -
David Anderson
System Administration -
Stephen Judkins
Software Architect -
Ali Aslam
Software Engineer -
Lorin Tackett
UI Developer -
Charlie Isslander
UI Designer -
Chris Didyk
Software Engineer -
Julian Coutu
Software Engineer -
Nicholaus Ames
Software Engineer -
Meg Starbuck
HR & Bookkeeping -
Ním Wunnan
Site Producer
Process.
Turing uses a variant of the SCRUM development process which we have tuned to accomodate user experience centric development. We've found that the careful integration of design into the development process can be the determining factor for the success of a project.
Research
Through communication and research, we become familiar with your company, customers, business model, competition, marketing, and risk profile. If we understand the ecosystem in your corner of the market, we can help you determine the best strategy and tactics for your product's development. We've worked with startups at all stages of funding from pre-seed to series-C and beyond, so we'll have useful advice regardless of where your company is in the process.
Results: *User Survey & Interview Results *User Profiles *Competitive Analysis *Brand Messaging & Positioning *Project Goals *Technology Overview *Team Composition
User Experience
This is where the fun begins. We start by sketching your application and sharing rough ideas very rapidly: user stories, structure, layouts, features, and patterns will all flow quickly in a cycle of rapid feedback and modifications. Next, we'll begin wireframing a clickable prototype of the application so everyone involved can get a sense for the behavior of the application. When these wireframes are mature, we switch the focus to Branding and Interface Design. We work iteratively to replace wireframes in the clickable prototype with beautiful interface design. We work to create a visual grammar for the application which can be applied to all future development. When the Interface Design is completed, we break down all features into stories, and create conversion goals & associated metrics for important processes like signup.
If you need branding, we will incorporate the design of a brand package into this stage of the project.
Results: *Wireframes *Interface Design *Clickable Prototype *User Stories *Metrics Plan & Conversion Goals *Brand Package
Development
We practice SCRUM with Test Driven Development and deploy on a custom-configured version of Linux called CloudCore(tm). Our developers use a mixture of Rails, Scala, Javascript, HTML5, and CSS3. Our code has been described by multiple third party auditors as the cleanest they have ever seen. The tools we choose support our commitment to quality and developer productivity.
Our teams work in two week iterations to develop and deliver a functional build of the application. We demonstrate progress at the end of each iteration - real working software you can use to provide feedback.
Results: *Application Code (Rails, Scala) *UI Code (HTML, CSS, Javascript) *Tests: Application Unit and Functional, Security Audits *Reports: Accessibility, SEO, Intellectual Property, Code Quality, DNS *Application *Load-tested and Scalable Server Infrastructure (Application Servers, Databases, Load Balancing, Monitoring)
Skills.
Consulting
- Product Strategy & Ideation
- Product Reviews
- Metrics Design
- User Interview & Stories
- Codebase Analysis
Design
- Brand Package Design
- UI/UX Design / Wireframing
- Visual Design
- Print Design
- Web Design
- Video
Product Management & Training
- Product Ownership
- SCRUM Master
- Reporting
- Agile/SCRUM Training
- SCRUM Master Training
Engineering
- Web & Mobile Practices
- Agile, Test-Driven Development
- Compliance Requirements
- Interactive Prototyping
- Continuous Integration
- Platforms & Languages
- Objective-C (iOS)
- Ruby / Rails
- Scala
- Java
- node.js
- Backbone.js
- HTML5 / CSS3
- DevOps
- Cloud Packaging & Deployment
- Infrastructure Automation
- Cloud Autoscaling
- Release Engineering
- Network Infrastructure
- Compliance & Security
- Load Testing
- Monitoring
- Selenium
- Database technologies
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- Oracle
- CMS Integration
- Wordpress
- MODx