A recent article in the NYTimes, Short-Term Thinking Is Poisoning American Business, talks about the short term focus: Public Companies: “being evaluated by investors on their ability to produce immediate financial value, almost always in the form of value-extracting activities such as cost-cutting, price…
Read MoreA Decade. Yep, RunSignup has officially been around for a decade now. In the beginning, we did not really know what to expect. But it is safe to say we greatly exceeded the expectations of customers appreciating what we built. Our very…
Read MoreTim 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…
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