Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the Internet, announced the Contract for the Web today. RunSignup has endorsed the contract and pledges to live up to the ideals of a better web. Much of the founding principles of RunSignup came from Open Source principles that are…
Read MoreBeing the open company we are, we do not express political points of view, and we respect a diverse set of beliefs among our employees, partners and customers. We also say “No” to events on RunSignup that are for the benefit of…
Read MoreDan Schaefer is joining RunSignup as our western territory sales rep helping race directors, timers and event organizers discover the benefits of using RunSignup. He comes to us with a background in technology sales, most recently with EnaSys RFID. Dan is an avid…
Read MoreOver the past three years (and before) we have made gradual advances toward being more accessible for differently-abled users, adding small code updates to better accommodate assistive technologies, putting some thought into contrast, and making sure our form fields have labels. These…
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We do a quarterly update on how things are going with RunSignup (2016, Q1/17, Q2/17, Q3/17, 2017, Q1/18, Q2/18, Q3/18, 2018, Q1/19 and Q2/19). The good news is that more races, timing companies, and nonprofits continue to recommend us. And we keep putting out great technology our customers seem to like! Q3 is…
Read MoreWe always share our User Experience Guiding Principles at the RunSignup Symposium every year, when we do our annual User Experience presentation. It occurred to us that we’ve never blogged them, so here it goes… Many user experience teams have a wonderful manifesto, featuring illustrations,…
Read MoreJames Armington is joining the RunSignup team as Account Managers. He has experience in the endurance industry, having previously worked as ChronoTrack Account Managers and will use their knowledge to provide support to timers utilizing the RunSignup system. James resides in Colorado…
Read MoreThe UX team at RunSignup has been building out a design system for the past year. It will help us save time, and build more consistent products. Here’s what we’ve been up to: Design System? Huh? For the non-UXers out there, a design…
Read MoreWe do a US Registration Market Analysis every 6 months: We try to improve on it with your feedback (so feel free to send suggestions or corrections to bob.bickel at runsignup.com). We do this as part of our own internal market evaluation…
Read MoreThis is Bob. I’m getting a bunch of “Congratulations on your 10th Work Anniversary” on LinkedIn today. At our Symposium, Allison and I talked about this being our 10th year in business and what we have planned for the next 10 years (more of…
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