CREATIVE CATALYSTS

Creative technologists are catalysts who accelerate your brainstorming process by bringing emerging technologies into focus. Fixated on technology trends, these are the nerds in the room at the beginning to provide the technical foresight to complement your strategic vision. A creative technologist will also spot features that would be budget sinkholes and logistical nightmares before project stakeholders have had a chance to set their hearts on them.

WHO ARE THOSE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGISTS?

While this role is personified by a number of Nerdery nerds, you won’t see it on our business cards. Our creative technologists go by titles like user experience designer, solutions engineer, software project manager, software engineer, engagement manager and on and on. What matters most is how they can fuel your imagination while making sure your vision fits your budget and timeline – and helping you avoid logistical dead-ends.

TECHNOLOGICAL VISIONARIES

Interactive technology is advancing at a dizzying speed and to the untrained eye, it’s a blur. Through the eyes of a creative technologist, the mind map on your conference room whiteboard becomes a technicolored window into your formative project’s final budget, timeline and functionality. We can design for software, plan around system constraints and plan development per a specific budget.

A creative technologist in the room will inform your strategic process and further the evolution of your interactive ambitions. Our creative technologists help you fit your vision into “the box;” then we help you break out of it. You need creative technologists; we know this because we need them, too. Engaging our creative technologist is as simple as saving a seat for a nerd at your next brainstorming session.

Your Project, Shaped By Your Priorities

Collaborative bidding is about being flexible. In discussing cost, time and features, we come to understand a partner’s priorities. We ask, what can’t you budge on? What’s the limiting factor? We help partners crystalize a vision while understanding how choices on features will affect cost and timeline. Then we scope accordingly, and we do the math on what it will take to do the work.

Project Trigonometry

Understanding your motives on cost, timeline and features is an essential first step in making sure you get what you need and determining how we engage with you on your project. These factors form a triangle. While a triangle is always a triangle, its angles change when one side (let’s say, features) grows. There’s a formula for every project, and they often follow one of three patterns:

EVERYONE YOU NEED, NO ONE YOU DON’T

When we get a gig, we don’t just grab a random sampling of nerds, throw them in a blender and press frappé – heavens no. We do, however, have the ability to quickly customize a dream team of interactive professionals for any project by picking and choosing from our vast ecosystem of specialists. With hundreds of complete nerds, we have an embarrassment of riches and a learned understanding of what it takes to give your project a balanced nerd ecology.

THE NERD ECOSYSTEM

The Redwood Forests, the Great Barrier Reef, that Chinese takeout from last month in the back of your fridge; what do all these things have in common? That’s right, a dynamic and diverse ecosystem. Building functional Interactive project teams requires that same level of dynamic biodiversity. For a project’s execution to be successful, the team requires a variety of different skills at different points so we can ensure your team meets those requirements.

By partnering with The Nerdery, you gain access to our vast nerd preserve with its resident experts on user experience, project management, quality assurance and, of course, dozens of species of programmers. We’ll help you stock your project team with the perfect combination of helpful organisms (dogs are optional) and make sure that we adapt to changes in your project as it happens, bringing in new talent when they are needed.

Your project’s dream team may include a wide variety of specialized roles including: solutions engineers, software project managers, software engineers, front-end Developers, QA engineers and UX designers - all of them total nerds.

Is that Everyone?

No, but it represents most of the folks who’ll touch your project. Come in sometime and you can meet the Nerd Hunter (really, it’s a thing), our accounting and admin staff, and the doodlers in marketing who peddle the sort of propaganda you’re perusing now.