Love and Promise Jewelers Design & Magento Integration
As an online purveyor of ethically sourced jewelry, L&P’s website requires consistent upkeep of the Magento backend and competitive design and features.
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This past June, we launched a second version of a mobile application we’d originally built four years ago for one of our non-profit clients, Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI).
MSCI is a trade association based in Rolling Meadows, IL that’s been around for more than 100 years serving businesses in the industrial metals industry across North America. With more than 32 chapters in the US, Canada, and Mexico, MSCI hosts frequent conferences and events throughout the year around the US for its members. It also produces industry reports, research, and membership surveys, and provides executive education courses, as well as advocates on policy issues affecting the metals industry.
We built MSCI’s first app in 2013 to enable its thousands of members to access in-depth, up-to-the-minute information about MSCI conferences and resources on their smartphones and tablets.
In our multi-phase approach, we first created a prototype iOS application (at the time, many of MSCI’s members were iPhone users) and then field-tested it at MSCI’s annual meeting. Our programmers then took the feedback we received from users (an increasing number of them were using Android devices, too) to make design and functionality improvements, and built out a second app for the Android platform.
“We’ve been working with Solid for several years now to build our website and our iOS/Android apps. They are a pleasure to work with and we’re very happy with the results. We’ve heard literally nothing but great things about the website we launched in 2018. You can trust Solid to take care of you…definitely recommended.”
Ryan Hietpas, Executive Director, Digitalization & Technology, MSCI
The app has been a big success in helping MSCI promote its conferences and thought leadership to its members, who also use the app to network with peers and potential customers.
And over the years since its launch, we’ve partnered with MSCI to make updates to the app’s content and functionality. But as the mobile app world has rapidly advanced, what we built for MSCI in 2013 was starting to show its age.
At the heart of every one of our projects are two goals: employing the best solutions to deliver an outstanding user experience, and saving our clients money.
Fortunately, we had a better solution in our arsenal: Xamarin. Xamarin is a set of Microsoft tools that allows programmers to write code in one place and share it across multiple platforms, including Android, Windows and iOS. In 2016, Solid Digital became a Xamarin Premier Consulting Partner, earning the distinction after our programmers completed Microsoft’s year-long [intensive] training.
Xamarin is the platform of choice for us. It is a significant time saver for programmers, makes updates easier, and is a huge cost savings for our customers.
Jesse McCabe, CEO, Solid Digital, LLC
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