Table XI

Sprout San Francisco came to us in 2012 wanting to connect with parents searching for non-toxic and eco-friendly gear. We saw an opportunity to grow saleswith a baby registry app, and helped Sprout capitalize.

Four years later, Sprout came back to update the app using all the sales data it had collected. We were able to deliver new functionality and a platform for massive potential e-commerce growth.

How do you grab the attention of an 18-year-old? That’s the question Rice University came to Table XI to answer. The school had recently launched its Doerr Institute for New Leaders, and needed to show students all it could do.

We used user research to find the best solution — a chatbot that would survey students via text, then match them with a customized leadership program. Then we built it alongside Rice's IT team, so they could manage it long after Table XI wrapped.

The Field Museum of Natural History wanted to learn more about its users — and it was looking for a UX design team capable of approaching the question with the same scientific methods the museum prizes. We embarked on a four-month research project to learn what users were looking for and what they were getting on the existing website. Analyzing the interviews, data and tests allowed us to give the Field a whole new understanding of its users, and a redesigned website to better serve them.

As PechaKucha’s storytelling series became a global phenomenon, its founders called Table XI to build technology capable of supporting their growing international community. Over the years we've collaborated on a website and an iOS app, taking turns flying between Tokyo and Chicago. Today our technology supports events in over 1,000 cities worldwide.

Dr. Jane McGonigal built SuperBetter to see if gaming could help combat mental illness. That test proved successful, and after giving a TED talk on her findings, Jane called us to stabilize and update the iOS game and manage the technology. Together, we re-released a mobile app that will add 10 years to your life.

Cobbler Concierge had seen rapid growth in its first year and a half in business — and its original system was starting to show the strain. The shoe and handbag repair startup came to us for a code audit to identify any weaknesses or limitations in the software. The findings gave Cobbler a roadmap to stabilize the product and create opportunities to scale. In the seven months since we started, Cobbler has increased repairs by 66 percent, and growing.

Keiser came to us with big plans. The more than 30-year-old maker of high-end fitness equipment — think training machines for NASA and the MLB — was preparing a huge marketing push ahead of their conference season. We were able to deliver a new website, CMS and iPad sales tool on a tight timeline and on budget.

For decades, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, part of the JAMA Network family of journals, has kept doctors sharp — and licensed — by helping them earn their continuing medical education (CME) credits.

Now, JAMA must provide the same education to a new generation of doctors used to getting everything on their phones. To create a mobile app capable of engaging these younger physicians, JAMA turned to Table XI and our agency friends at One Design. Together, we developed a dynamic app that’s informed by a modern set of needs.

Tend's founder came to us just as Australia was deregulating homecare — opening up an opportunity to bring technology to a previously paper-bound industry. He needed a technical partner to make the most of the moment. Together, we conducted user research to identify pain points and find solutions. The resulting app gives caregivers, clients and families a digital space to coordinate and communicate, making homecare more transparent and flexible than ever before.

After bringing startup innovation to the unlikely world of estate sales, Everything But The House needed an iOS app that could manage its hundreds of thousands of active users. We worked alongside them to develop an e-commerce app that can keep up with their rapid growth — and deliver the insights and analytics necessary to help them scale.

We’ve been the official tech sponsor of Chicago Ideas for four years running, helping it grow from an annual gathering of influential speakers to a global idea-sharing brand. That’s meant building a new event management platform and mobile ticket-scanning app, moving Chicago Ideas to a new administration platform and upgrading it to an AWS infrastructure.

This year we tested new ways forward with a Product Design Workshop. The result was a total responsive redesign and a custom content management system that lets CI’s staff build new pages from 38 stackable design blocks.

For the past 15 years, family-owned Dickson has looked to Table XI to secure its future through technology. We started by helping Dickson’s team understand their users’ behavior, then worked up to revamping their entire e-commerce strategy.

As a technology partner though, our job is to identify new ways to grow Dickson's business. That’s why we’re proud to announce the launch of the DicksonOne app, a centralized hub for product data that’s giving Dickson an opportunity to own a slice of the Internet of Things.

Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz Ebert wanted to build a website that would serve as an archive, a conversation about movies, and a platform to invite and feature the voices of the movie critics they admired, and they brought Table XI on board to bring their vision to life.

Core facility management at Northwestern had the kind of complexity only custom software could solve. Sixty research facilities across two campuses were using a patchwork of systems to track usage and manage payments. To meet their varied needs, Table XI developed NUcore to serve as a single, seamless and transparent core facility management software. By creating a flexible tool, we’ve earned more than 90 percent adoption. Now administrators can get a clear picture of each core’s utilization and staff can spend less time on accounting.