Hypercode Blog, Page 8

We found it just outside Cologne in March and moved in at the start of April. The modern loft at WALZWERK in Pulheim covers almost 200 m², just one train stop — an eight-minute ride — from Cologne-Ehrenfeld station. Two and a half floors and a roof terrace give us room to grow, now and in the years ahead.

Take a look around:

WALZWERK is a former industrial site with excellent transport links to Cologne. Since 2005, it has been home to TV productions including “Bares für Rares”, artists’ studios, restaurants and businesses working in services, retail, digital technology and culture. Pipes and cold-rolled strip steel were still being produced here in the early 1990s. Today, the site brings modern workplaces and a lively cultural and leisure scene together.

We’re looking forward to welcoming clients, partners and friends to our new office, affectionately named “Hyperspace Two”. For the record, “Hyperspace One” was our old office at WeWork on Friesenplatz in Cologne. Come and visit:

We’d love to see you. Get in touch to arrange a visit 👋🏻.

Dear clients, partners and friends,

Another turbulent year is almost over, and it has often felt as though the pandemic’s repeat button was stuck. But the lessons we all learned about remote work and distributed teams last year helped us meet the continuing and new challenges of 2021, and prepare for those ahead.

We’ve loved working with you on so many exciting projects: corporate websites, product configurators, shops and interfaces, plus refactored and entirely new mobile apps. The kind of work that makes your digital portfolio shine and gets our developer hearts racing. Thank you for your trust, the productive collaboration and for making us part of your teams!

We look forward to continuing that work together next year and hope to see you in person again soon. Until then, we wish you and your team a wonderful festive season and a successful start to 2022. Above all, stay healthy!

Your Hypercode team

P.S. To keep up with what we’re doing in 2022, subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. You can also see how we made our decidedly analog Christmas artwork. We’d love to see you there. 🤓

From channels and chats to surveys and an employee directory, Quiply helps people connect and share information at work. The app can be adapted to the needs of different industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, retail, hospitality and municipal businesses.

Quiply’s breadth of features was also the biggest challenge for the website’s UX/UI design and development. Each feature needed to be explained in a way that made sense to its audience. The requirements for the relaunch soon became clear: use interaction, video and audio to show what the app can do, and give editors flexible page-building tools to present the different use cases with variety.

Quiply had already supplied a new corporate identity, visual design and website design. We developed these across screen sizes, content elements and subpages, documented the page types and components in a module guide, and turned the visual component library into an interactive pattern library. This formed the basis of a Craft CMS setup that brings together flexible page layouts, reusable frontend components and HubSpot content. You’ll find more examples of flexible websites that combine a strong brand identity with demanding technical requirements in our Corporate Websites section.

Discover our work for Quiply and learn more about the employee app on the Quiply website.

KMS TEAM’s concept and design called for a highly modular CMS, a dynamic frontend and strong performance. Their company pages needed the same freedom of expression as the case studies showcasing their clients and work. Markus Sauer, Digital Design Director at KMS TEAM, explains:

The site’s performance with such extensive content and its dynamic overall feel were particularly important to us. Precise implementation is essential to achieving that.

Working closely with KMS TEAM, we chose to build the editorial system on Craft CMS. It lets editors combine a wide range of configurable content elements, giving them the flexibility they need to create individual pages.

The frontend is a server-side rendered single-page application built with Vue.js and Nuxt.js, connected to the CMS via GraphQL. It also integrates video and recruitment services. Varied content, animations and interactions across different media invite visitors to explore KMS TEAM’s portfolio — something we enjoyed doing throughout development and afterwards. Markus Sauer:

We’re delighted to have a partner in Hypercode who immediately understood our conceptual, technical and design requirements and met them so well. We really enjoyed working together and exchanging ideas throughout the project.

Thank you, Markus — the feeling is mutual!

Take a closer look at the project in our new KMS TEAM case study, or explore kms-team.com for yourself.