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Utilities depend on SEEload, Lockheed Martin’s Demand Response Management System, to reduce energy demands on the grid, enable smart cities, boost reliability, and optimize utilization. Lockheed Martin, in turn, depends on Spire Digital to optimize the usability of the SEEload system. Spire has a 20-year track record helping engineering-driven organizations enhance their user experience. Designing and building web-based

Amsterdam-based GPS giant TomTom wanted to use its infrastructure to develop a fitness device. For its first foray into this market, TomTom approached Spire Digital with an idea for a smartwatch that could monitor a user’s physical activity and save and track the data via a complementary mobile-web interface. In less than six months, using both responsive web development and user experience design, Spire was able to build,

Have you ever wondered what the most profitable item is inside a grocery store? It’s the Coinstar kiosk — the machine that converts those extra pennies into paper cash. Coinstar is the world leader in counting and converting coins at retail, with volume exceeding $3 billion dollars annually. Prior to engaging Spire Digital, Coinstar’s track record of success and innovation had not yet translated through to its digital presence.

Farmers and ranchers who voluntarily follow conservation practices can be awarded subsidies by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), a process typically heavy on the administrative side and full of complexities. In an effort to reduce time and waste in granting these subsidies, the USDA brought Spire Digital on board to lead a rapid agile UX design process that resulted in a beautiful enterprise web application as

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a digital initiative whose goal is to provide global access to knowledge about life on earth. EOL acts as an online collaborative encyclopedia with the intent of documenting the 1.9 million living species known to science. For organizations that need reliable and verified information about biology on earth, EOL serves as the most open, available and trusted repository. EOL came to Spire Digital

By scoring features based on user value, business value, and level of effort, we helped Dish create the feature list and roadmap for their new digital platform, to drive the business forward. We then turned the feature list into a clickable prototype of the new app, which we guerilla tested with a slate of customers to validate usability. Within just four weeks of inception, the app design was production ready.

SRS Acquiom, leading experts in the management of private mergers and acquisitions, saw major inefficiencies within the M&A industry. They came to Spire Digital with an idea for a digital product that would revolutionize the way post-closing payments are handled. In the spring of 2014, Spire led the digital product development effort, defining a minimally viable product and roadmap for what would become the industry’s first

Monaco-based luxury cruise line, Silversea Cruises, sails on all seven continents, spanning every time zone and corner of the earth. Passengers expect top service from the ships, including speedy maritime internet service and robust onboard video entertainment. Silversea needed a solution to deliver on-demand as well as real-time network video and music feeds to their passengers. Experienced in local area networks and

The paradox of choice. It’s the problem with most outdoor apps. The menu of where to go can be overwhelming, reflecting the vastness of mother nature. In your search, you may find yourself scanning hundreds of pages of content to zero in on the right destination. Many apps attempt to simplify decision-making for the user by featuring the most popular trails or destinations. But this puts further strain on these already

Incubated at Spire, Achroma is a social enterprise committed to eliminating bias and discrimination in a number of areas, starting with mortgage lending. Achroma utilizes proprietary, AI-based de-identification and scoring technology to remove the possibility of explicit and implicit bias based not just on race and ethnicity, but also religion, gender and orientation in applications processes.

The world is home to 1.3 billion Catholics, but over the years many have become distant from their faith. In fact, the United States is home to as many ex-Catholics as practicing Catholics. It’s against this backdrop that Pope Francis was elected in 2013, on a mission to restore faith. The Augustine Institute is an important part of that mission, “imparting ancient wisdom through modern media and technology” to make Catholicism

Denver International Airport (DIA) needed a new website and content delivery system that could accommodate its standing as the 15th-busiest airport in the world and the fifth-busiest in the United States. With more than 53 million passengers traveling through the airport each year, DIA’s site—flydenver.com—is an important stopover and hub of information for the public. DIA partnered with Spire Digital to develop a new and

Every so often, we take on the responsibility of leading a project with life or death implications. Take, for example, the work we’ve done for Logos Imaging, designing and building software that runs portable inspection systems for bomb techs. The business case for investing in user-centered design often revolves around driving increased revenue through better conversion and retention rates, or reducing costs by achieving

As the world’s leading manufacturer of logistics and delivery management equipment for hospitals, Swisslog deals with complexity every day. They tasked Spire Digital to define the user experience design and application for what became MedPortal® Inventory Management Software (IMS), their groundbreaking automated system that coordinates the daily flow of thousands of pharmacy products within a hospital. Together, Swisslog and

When Denver-based Inspirato, a private vacation club, contacted their members with trip proposals, the sales team had to do so by manually sending individual emails. This slow and tedious process, lacking in any real tracking capabilities, was ready to be overhauled, which is where Spire Digital stepped in with a custom solution. In five months, Spire developed a new customer experience tool for Inspirato that was efficient,

Often, when bad words are muttered on airplanes, it has something to do with the WiFi connection. As we all know, in this age of ubiquitous WiFi connectivity, what once was considered miraculous is now a market expectation. But the truth is, enabling WiFi inside of an aircraft, as it speeds along at 35,000 feet above the ground, is remarkably complicated. When it stops working, the first step in fixing the connection is to