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Photoshop Localization Automation

Content localization for a global company typically requires a lot of content and resources to curate that content. This plugin was developed to integrate with a no-code CMS which streamlined the localization workflow of an entire global agency across all lines of business, driving scale far beyond operational norms.

#adobe #photoshop #uxp #javascript #extendscript #html5
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Photoshop Smart Object Automation

A Photoshop Smart Object is a non-destructive, layer object, approach to image manipulation. This workflow takes advantage of this advanced technique by automating the replacement of its content via automation, at scale. It serves as the perfect scale solution for bulk creation of assets for any use case, even supporting multiple objects within the same Photoshop document.

#adobe #photoshop #extendscript #scriptui
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InDesign Server for Financial Portfolios

Investment and finance require immense amounts of complex data processing. The addition of brand requirements and design rules, necessitates a logic based design engine that can accommodate customization at various points of production. Our proprietary method of deployment provides our clients with "control files", which allow them to customize their automation, without developer resources. We build to solve for the growth and scale of your company, so that the solutions grow with you.

#adobe #indesign #indesignserver #finance #extendscript #database
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InDesign Server for Financial Sellsheets

Control files allow our clients to determine the utility of their content - reusing data, assets, content where and whenever necessary to drive efficiency, accuracy and scale. We built a system that can grow beyond the needs of their company, without rebuilding or architecting a new solution. We solved for extensibility and delivered growth.

#adobe #indesign #indesignserver #finance #extendscript #database
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Airtable to InDesign

Even small businesses can leverage automation to deliver massive time and cost savings. A nutritionist was looking for the best possible way to share healthy recipes with her clients while being able to customize the content of her cookbooks, on-demand. We leveraged Airtable's API, to provide a simple solution for a single "source of truth", delivering content to our InDesign automation, which then delivers a finished product in seconds.

#adobe #indesign #airtable #applescript
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Simplynutritiouscoaching.com

A nutritionist with a great vision and big heart was tired of the big name hosting services holding up her progress. She reached out to us in hopes of having a rebranded site that was her own, with the ability to control her own content, on her own terms and without restrictions. Our solution handed control back to the client, enabling her to tell her story and those of her clients, her way.

#wordpress #javascript #css #html5 #mysql
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BOOM Supply Co's custom web solution

A global branding powerhouse with aspirations to have a huge impact on global brands and world-wide initiatives, needed a solution that was just as big. After months of searching for a low-cost solution that could deliver on a vision, BOOM Supply Co came to us with the hopes we could deliver. We stepped up and BOOM!

#wordpress #bootstrap #html5 #php #javascript #css #mysql
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EtchedWine.com Personalization Solution

A premier personalized wine & champagne company in the United States which produces custom etched bottles with orders up to 60,000 bottles, Etchedwine.com needed a design solution that could help their business scale. We deployed an architecture that allows for endless designs, scalability of product, and extensibility of platform, on-demand and in realtime. Our solution accomplished all of these things with InDesign server advanced logic for execution of designs, and proofs, while accommodating production requirements delivering imposed artwork files to deliver beautifully customized product to clients.

#adobe #indesign #json #javascript #extendscript #shopify
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xBuilder — CMS to InDesign Solution

A solution that proposed was a new architecture which modularized content, prioritized accuracy, and introduced new InDesign automation. This new system significantly improved efficiency, substantially reducing typical processes from 90 minutes to 90 seconds with perfect accuracy. Company wide, schedules were transformed, allowing curators to focus on ensuring accuracy before delivery. The production cycle of their largest 8,000+ SKU catalog was reduced to six weeks from 9 months and set the baseline of efficiency for all other products. The improved process was expanded throughout their global business across North American and China.

#adobe #indesign #php #javascript #extendscript #css #mysql #xml #xslt
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Brand Business Card Builder

A global customization platform wanted a better way to share its quality business cards products while demonstrating its premium finishing options as part of a brand relaunch. When the complexity of the requirements were too complex to implement onto the customer platform, we build an internally hosted tool that delivered 112 variant versions, with personalization and multiple finish options. The tool provided an online proofing and approval workflow that execute over 3,000 orders, servicing office employees all over the world.

#adobe #indesign #php #javascript #extendscript #css #mysql
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eBlocks, a first of its kind POC

A drag-drop eMail builder, that drove efficiency and scale for an in-house agency and revolutionized the channel for a global power house. Architecture drove accuracy and code quality while delivering fully rebranded content to customers. The tool laid the groundwork for future implementations including localization to 23 languages, at the click of a button variable pricing and content, along with campaign personalization. The enabling architecture began long before the first piece of code was written, and that idea continues to drive value over a decade later.

#php #bootstrap #mysql #javascript #css #apis #aws #git
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AMS, an orignal DAM

A ground-up solution developed for the purpose of supporting complex personalization, categorization and localized content at a global scale. Architected atop an extensible database taxonomy, built to grow and change with the business and its partners.

#html5 #bootstrap #php #mysql #javascript #css #apis #aws #git
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Variable Layouts with InDesign

Our client presented us with a huge ask, "as if a finished design that was so variable, that it appeared a human had designed it". We rose to the challenge and created an algorithm-based design solution using InDesign and XML to drive a completely variable output. Each run is different from the last, and the speed of the delivered output was 98% faster than their manual solutions.

#adobe #indesign #extendscript #xml #xslt #filemaker
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Wall Charts InDesign Server

Sales representatives needed additional materials to win over clients and differentiate themselves from cleaning product suppliers. The differentiator, was the guarantee of customized, bilingual facility safety posters. Customized with customer's chosen products and brand, on-demand. InDesign server drove this self-serve solution and its immense success.

#php #mysql #javascript #css #adobe #indesign #apis #aws #git
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Self-serve, Custom Marketing Collateral

A solution to a "we've always done it this way" problem. Marketing materials were being produced in MS Office products, then redesigned by desktop artists by hand, for every national sales rep, for every customer. Upkeep and syncing of changes across the library of marketing materials was painful and never ending. The solution was an InDesign server implementation that captured business rules, enforced brand guidelines and put those features in the hands of national reps, immediately driving sales. Brand control of locked content and tone of voice, controlled customization improved sales while reducing agency maintenance and overhead to almost zero.

#php #mysql #javascript #css #adobe #indesign #apis #aws #git
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BrownTrout.com

A family business that grew to become the largest calendar company in the world, with affiliate companies in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, needed automation to enable their large scale design operation. We helped drive innovation and product assortment across their proprietary business process, slashing production times and enabling new product.

#indesign #applescript #automation #filemaker
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SacredPeopleFoundation.org

A small company with a big vision to "Improve the lives of the underserved people of the world wherever we see the need by using our core talents as idea creators" was all the motivation needed to jump into this project. They needed an online presence to help deliver their message with open arms, we stood with them and delivered.

#php #mysql #javascript #css
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Three-Agency.org

Small agency with the right approach to help those in need, needed its own brand ad online presence. Their purpose – "to give back and form long-term and rewarding client relationships". We developed the logo and design system to help deliver their message to clients.

#php #html5 #mysql #javascript #css
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