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BigCommerce, leading Open SaaS eCommerce solution, recognized Codal for our work on Garrett Popcorn's website for creating a world-class, visually appealing design that enhances the user experience and leads to higher interactivity and conversion. 

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From our Chicago headquarters, to our Lincoln, UK design studio, to our large engineering office in Ahmedabad, India, Codal’s leadership team is committed to making sure our clients get the most impactful digital solutions out there.

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At Codal, everyone gets a seat at the table, which means everyone gets to share their unique experiences, perspectives, and approaches. We believe that when you hire people from diverse backgrounds, you bring invaluable new perspectives to the forefront. We strive for open collaboration and transparency across all teams. Around here, the best ideas really can come from anyone. 

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A refreshed internal compliance web application with a modernized UX for a firm with 1.8 million banking and tech 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 their many internal web applications.

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Going headless for an integrated eCommerce ecosystem.


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GOREWEAR needed a new, modern eCommerce setup to bring its global online retail operations under one roof. As a leading eCommerce design and development agency, Codal was proud to team up with such a brand to deliver a cutting-edge eCommerce solution built to scale.

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How Codal helped GOREWEAR go headless for an integrated eCommerce ecosystem.

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Creating a superior HIPAA compliant physician-patient relationship in eCommerce.

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In order to grow its network of dermatologists and increase sales on its RegimenPro platform, RegimenPro’s challenge was two-fold. First, it needed to create an intuitive physician portal that allows dermatologists to easily select patient-specific products and manage related regimens for their patients that met HIPAA compliance. Second, a streamlined, straightforward consumer experience was necessary to allow new patients to easily get an extensive regimen and order products for delivery.

Creating a superior physician-patient relationship in eCommerce.

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Helping a historic brand find its footing in the modern eCommerce landscape.

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Thermos, a storied provider of insulated food and beverage containers, knew that it needed an eCommerce transformation. Since 1904, Thermos has developed and manufactured consumer products that harness the power of vacuum insulation. Over 115+ years, the brand has become synonymous with quality, practicality, and durability. Together with its sister brand Lifefactory, Thermos needed to modernize its eCommerce presence.

See how Codal helped this historic brand find its footing in the modern eCommerce landscape.

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Designing and developing a transformative workflow management solution for corporate legal teams.

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Proxy is a robust legal workflow management tool designed for corporate legal departments. In-house counsel, corporate stakeholders, and outside firms trust Proxy to help them manage important tasks, deadlines, and documents related to legal operations. Proxy helps companies handle anything from small, ad hoc requests to full-scale projects with a simple, intuitive user interface. With extensive organization and delegation functionality, in-house counsel can easily manage workloads, assign tasks, and monitor progress. Proxy’s powerful reporting tools offer actionable analytics on project status, progress, workloads, and efficiency. The solution’s dashboard provides a clear and concise view of the status of your most important tasks, deadlines, and documents for all relevant legal stakeholders.

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The challenge for Codal was clear: create an intelligent HIPAA compliant portal for physicians to manage their patients’ regimens, build a platform for patients to get a regimen quickly, and wrap it all up in a streamlined Shopify Plus eCommerce site with a simple and smooth user experience.

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RegimenPro is an eCommerce site that disrupts the traditional approach to supplying patients with high-quality skincare products. Branding itself as a “digital premium skincare dispensary,” RegimenPro provides an extensive physicians’ network to help patients connect with a licensed dermatologist and get a customized skincare routine with high-quality products. Then, its RegimenPro marketplace allows patients to easily order these physician recommended products and get them delivered to their front door, taking the traditional appointment scheduling and in-office dispensing out of the equation.

In order to grow its network of dermatologists and increase sales on its RegimenPro platform, RegimenPro’s challenge was two-fold. First, it needed to create an intuitive HIPAA compliant physician portal that allows dermatologists to easily select patient-specific products and manage related regimens for their patients. Second, a streamlined, straightforward consumer experience was necessary to allow new patients to easily get an extensive regimen and order products for delivery.

As a Shopify Plus partner, Codal designs intuitive user experiences that increase and optimize our clients’ conversions. Migrating the RegimenPro marketplace to Shopify Plus provided the perfect platform on which to build a physicians’ portal, as well as create an effortless customer experience.

Intro

RegimenPro was confronted with a multifaceted obstacle to increasing sales on its marketplace. To attract more physicians to the platform, it needed an intuitive portal that would alleviate patient pain points around traditional in-office product ordering. These pain points also needed to be addressed on the consumer side, with an easy way for patients not currently seeing a dermatologist to get a customized regimen of high-quality products that they can easily order directly to their door. The challenge for Codal was clear: create an intelligent HIPAA compliant portal for physicians to manage their patients’ regimens, build a platform for patients to get a regimen quickly, and wrap it all up in a streamlined Shopify Plus eCommerce site with a simple and smooth user experience.

__Questions To Answer__
1. How do we make the RegimenPro platform more user-friendly for physicians?
2. How do we ensure consumers can easily get a skincare regimen that feels unique and personal without a trip to the dermatologist?
3. What are ways we can alleviate pain points around traditional in-office skincare product ordering for both physicians and consumers?

The Challenge

Codal began by conducting an in-depth discovery phase with RegimenPro stakeholders, as well as some of its partner dermatologists. Codal’s developers and UX designers were able to work closely with these groups to outline the scope of work, while discussing strategies, technical requirements, and user types of the platform. The collaborative discovery process allowed Codal to explore features and innovative ideas and get real-time feedback from the RegimenPro stakeholders.

Following the extensive discovery phase, Codal’s development team had a clear picture of what features were essential to the success of the new physician portal. Using middleware built on Ruby on Rails and Vue.js, Codal engineers created an intuitive environment for physicians to create and manage unique patient regimens, create pre-set regimens, designate their preferred products, and have visibility into patient ordering.

Discovery

To provide a superior experience for first-time users without an assigned physician, Codal worked RegimenPro’s partners to create an in-depth quiz to assess users’ skincare needs without ever having to set foot in a dermatologist’s office. After answering nine questions—and providing some supplementary information—the quiz generates a custom skincare regimen, incorporating all of RegimenPro’s products. Working with RegimenPro partner physicians, the Codal team created an extensive logic tree to provide tailored product recommendations based on a user’s age, gender, skin type, and more. This logic tree is capable of producing over 1,600 unique regimens, all backed by actual physician recommendations.

Then, it was time for the UX team to create user journeys to ensure that every interaction on the site is meaningful. Based on these journeys, the UX team built interactive wireframes, which were handed off to Codal’s UI designers to incorporate RegimenPro’s branding and visual motifs. Then, our expert Shopify Plus developers constructed the site based on these wireframes, tying together both the physician portal and the built-from-scratch patient quiz application.

Development

RegimenPro’s new eCommerce site for its RegimenPro marketplace provides a first-class user experience for multiple audiences. For physicians, it provides a central hub to manage all aspects of patient regimens, making it easy to recommend and order products, in-office or remotely. For consumers, RegimenPro offers an easy way to get a custom regimen with a few clicks, saving the hassle of locating a dermatologist, scheduling an appointment, and obtaining products directly from a physician. All constructed on a lean, intuitive Shopify Plus platform, the RegimenPro marketplace provides an easy way for patients and doctors to connect, and establish a high-end skincare regimen backed by cutting-edge research.

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Thermos came to Codal with an ambitious task: successfully migrate its eCommerce presence from Magento to Shopify Plus in just eight weeks. We’re always up for a challenge and working with a historic brand on a tight timeline sounded right up our alley.

Both Thermos and Lifefactory were operating on a legacy version of the Magento eCommerce platform. To continue to grow and scale its operations, Thermos determined it was necessary to migrate to Shopify Plus, a leader in cloud-based, enterprise-level eCommerce solutions—and a long-term Codal partner. 

Thermos came to Codal with an ambitious task: Successfully migrate its eCommerce presence from Magento to Shopify Plus in just eight weeks. We’re always up for a challenge, and working with a legendary brand on a tight timeline sounded right up our alley. Codal was proud to partner with Thermos to deliver a truly transformational eCommerce experience.

Codal began with an extensive discovery process, designed to understand Thermos’ wants, needs, expectations, and desires from the Shopify Plus platform—as well as establish an understanding of Codal’s approach to the migration process. 

After learning the ins and outs of Thermos’ existing business logic, workflows, and procedural tasks, Codal got to work. Our design and development teams took the information gathered in Discovery to architect a Shopify Plus solution that not only aligned with Thermos’ business and technical goals but also integrated seamlessly with its existing technological ecosystem.

Codal’s UX designers revamped Thermos’ eCommerce presence to reflect the brand’s history and values, while also establishing an intuitive, streamlined customer experience. Our team worked closely with Thermos’ in-house designers, offering expertise on eCommerce best practices and the Shopify Plus platform itself. This helped to ensure the brand was seamlessly integrated into the new eCommerce platform, thus retaining its unique look and feel. 

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Codal’s development team provided live workshops, where the Thermos team could watch our engineers code in real time and address any questions or concerns as they arose. Codal also assisted Thermos in bringing all of its order fulfillment capabilities and operations in-house, after separating from a legacy third-party logistics provider.

Thermos primarily competes in two different industries: sporting goods and home & garden. We gathered KPI averages for businesses in both sectors, then compared those averages to the data from Thermos’ revamped eCommerce website. Here are a few game-changing accomplishments the brand has achieved since partnering with Codal:

Daily sessions on the Thermos site are 1,360.29% greater than the sporting goods industry average, and 1,342% greater than the home & garden average.

Sessions that result in a user adding items to their cart are 75.12% greater than the sporting goods industry average, and 58.68% greater than the home & garden average. 

Sessions where a user makes it to the checkout are 45.62% greater than the sporting goods industry average, and 41.06% greater than the home & garden average. 

In a very short timeframe, Codal helped Thermos launch a cutting-edge eCommerce presence with an optimized customer experience that’s built to scale. With its fulfillment capabilities now aligned with the versatile Shopify Plus platform, Thermos is poised to deliver superior customer experiences and offer its much-loved products to a new generation of consumers.

Codal continues to work with Thermos on enhancing its eCommerce presence via cutting-edge digital solutions. We couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve accomplished so far with Thermos and are looking forward to seeing what the future holds for this historic brand. 

As a trusted partner to GOREWEAR, Codal’s task was to design and develop a responsive, agile eCommerce ecosystem that is able to respond to customer feedback and deliver a superior all-around shopping experience.

An innovative and well-respected performance apparel brand with a storied history, GOREWEAR approached Codal to reimagine its global eCommerce ecosystem. Under the W.L. Gore & Associates umbrella, GOREWEAR designs, develops, and manufactures cutting-edge products for endurance athletes to enhance their experience in all-weather conditions. Known for its waterproof and breathable Gore-Tex fabrics, GOREWEAR employs extensive research and development to ensure its products are built to support the world’s most elite athletes, no matter what the conditions.

Traditionally, GOREWEAR had contracted much of its eCommerce operations to a third-party provider. This meant that updates to its eCommerce sites were slow to implement, its product time-to-market was impeded, and order fulfillment had a lengthier turnaround time. GOREWEAR sought to bring all of its eCommerce operations in-house in order to deliver a superior customer experience while streamlining internal processes and procedures.

Additionally, GOREWEAR sought to bring two of its sister brands, VIEV and SITKA Gear, under its singular eCommerce umbrella as well.

As a trusted partner to GOREWEAR, Codal’s task was to design and develop a responsive, agile eCommerce ecosystem that is able to respond to customer feedback and deliver a superior all-around shopping experience.

The first step in the project process was to complete a full discovery. This enabled the Codal team to fully understand GOREWEAR’s current eCommerce ecosystem, including its pain points and challenges. Codal worked in close collaboration with the GOREWEAR team to understand the business logic, workflows, procedural tasks, required input/output information, and tools necessary for the eCommerce site. Additionally, Codal identified, defined and documented all existing and proposed features for the site, while determining all relevant third-party plugins for these features.

Based on information gathered during this discovery process, Codal assembled an execution strategy to deliver a transformative eCommerce solution to bring GOREWEAR into the next generation of online retail.

Codal determined that the best approach for GOREWEAR was to launch a headless eCommerce ecosystem. In a headless approach, the front-end presentation layer of an eCommerce presence is decoupled from its back end. By separating these two elements, GOREWEAR can isolate traditional eCommerce tasks like product and order management from customer-facing, front-end content. Because its eCommerce data is not specifically tied to a single front end, it can be replicated across multiple different sites—including all of GOREWEAR’s global sites, as well as its sister brands VIEV and SITKA Gear. 

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Codal architected GOREWEAR’s eCommerce solution using BigCommerce as a platform provider. BigCommerce provides a powerful back-end commerce engine to support GOREWEAR’s numerous global sites. It was the perfect template on which to build an innovative eCommerce solution that’s designed to scale.

Codal implemented Contentful as a content and channel management solution, allowing GOREWEAR to easily publish and localize content according to the needs of its individual eCommerce sites. With Contentful, it’s easy for GOREWEAR to manage all of its content—including promotions—across its ecosystem of sites while having them all connect to a singular commerce back end. 

The Codal team also incorporated Vercel into the ecosystem to help GOREWEAR’s developers easily deploy engaging front-end experiences. Vercel is the ideal framework for headless setups because front-end teams can deploy instantly, scale automatically, and easily launch personalized content around the world.

The Codal team also incorporated a number of third-party plugins to ensure a streamlined experience. These included Salsify for product information management, Klaviyo for email marketing, Yotpo for customer reviews, Avalara for automated tax compliance, and Adyen for payment processing.

Codal delivered a headless eCommerce solution that will help GOREWEAR grow, scale, and deliver a superior customer experience. This approach enables GOREWEAR to be nimble and responsive. With a headless eCommerce architecture, organizations can develop the front end independently, while easily managing commerce functions separately. Codal designed and developed GOREWEARs headless solution to be truly flexible and agile, with key functionality like multi-language and multi-currency support to enable connected commerce across its multiple global sites and brands.

For many brands, headless represents the future of integrated eCommerce. Working with our extensive set of eCommerce technology partners— and taking advantage of the flexible and reliable BigCommerce platform—Codal successfully crafted a cutting-edge headless eCommerce solution for GOREWEAR that will enable long-term, sustainable growth for its family of brands.

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After initially building a minimum viable product (MVP) for Proxy, Codal worked to transform it into a complex, enterprise-grade solution over multiple ongoing releases. Understanding the complexities of legal project management and the unique needs of corporate legal teams, Codal designed and architected a transformative solution.

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In order to design and develop a comprehensive workflow management tool for the legal space, NMBL Technologies—maker of Proxy—partnered with Codal. Founded in 2018 by attorneys and tech specialists, NMBL seeks to boost productivity in the legal space for in-house lawyers by building technology that streamlines workflows and facilitates effective collaboration. As a design and development agency committed to delivering pixel-perfect web applications to solve real business challenges, Codal was the right fit to build and launch this superior legal workflow management technology.

After initially building a minimum viable product (MVP) for Proxy, Codal worked to transform it into a complex, enterprise-grade solution over multiple ongoing releases. Understanding the complexities of legal project management and the unique needs of corporate legal teams, Codal designed and architected a transformative solution. With a three-tier organizational architecture between projects, workflows, and tasks, Proxy empowers in-house lawyers to assign, delegate, and prioritize items, as well as directly document management abilities.

Codal began with an initial discovery phase with Proxy stakeholders. Working through sketches and potential user flows gave Codal designers a solid foundational understanding of the application’s usability. Codal designers then worked collaboratively to create a modular platform with interconnectivity mapped out at an architectural level. From this, the team created a fully standardized and documented design system, which they applied to UX wireframes to produce user interface designs for the engineers to reference.

This design system was developed in accordance with Proxy’s mission statement and company values. It provided a roadmap for successfully implementing Proxy’s brand guidelines, as well as its key visual elements, like its logo, typography, iconography, data visualizations, and more. This system was crucial to establishing a streamlined look and feel for Proxy, and informing an intuitive and aesthetically pleasing user experience.

Discovery & Design

Meanwhile, Codal engineers worked on an Agile timeline alongside designers, quality assurance teams, and Proxy’s team to bring the entire product to life. In order to create an effective legal workflow management tool, the team implemented several essential features and functionality. The application’s tiered approach to organizational architecture—including projects, workflows, and tasks—as well the sensitive nature of legal projects and initiatives, meant that a number of provisions needed to be built in. These included a robust document management system, with the ability to assign permissions to specific groups or individuals in an organization. These permissions grant access—limited or full—to files based on the demands of a specific project.

In addition to features related to navigating the solution itself, the Codal team built in an easy-to-use service request and legal intake platform. This allows users to submit service requests directly to the legal teams via email or in the Proxy application. This avoids the need for a third party source or human interaction to facilitate new legal requests, and allows the legal teams using Proxy to resolve requests in a timely and secure manner. Additionally, the Codal team built the application to be successfully hosted on different server instances, including multi-tenant and secure private cloud. Proxy can be installed on on-premises, or in a dedicated cloud server environment, for companies with a large number of users, or those wary of sharing cloud space with our Proxy customers.

Engineering

As with any application handling large amounts of legal documentation, security and privacy were top of mind. At the server level, Proxy uses 256 AES encryption for all data-at-rest, and implements end-to-end encryption from browser-to-server. When it comes to customers using a multi-tenant cloud instance, all documents and data are compartmentalized and never interact with the data of other customers. Proxy was built using Privacy by Design concepts, meaning the authentication, access controls, permissions and roles, and other security measures impact every feature and function in the application. 

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Working in close collaboration with legal and technology experts at NMBL provided Codal with the wealth of context and guidance to deliver a top-notch legal workflow management solution. __Elegantly designed and developed with an impressive set of features, Proxy is a comprehensive solution for corporate legal teams looking to streamline their workflows and get things done faster and more efficiently.__ With flexible deployment options, companies seeking a traditional on-premise solution—or those looking for a Software-as-a-Service (Saas) approach—can get up and running in a short period of time. Proxy represents one of the most all-inclusive project management solutions in the burgeoning legal tech space.

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Codal has been named the BigCommerce 2021 Partner of the Year and recognized for the best User Experience + Design Award.

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