Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT (obviously) is one of the most prominent universities in the world, most famous for its work technology, science, and engineering, shaping future leaders and contributing significantly to global progress and development.
We’ve worked with several academic and non-academic units at MIT, including:
MIT EECS
MIT Sloan Management Review
MIT PAIA
MIT Energy Initiative
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EECS (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science)
Unsurprisingly given the department’s size and prominence, MIT EECS runs a number of annual programs that require their own web presence. We’ve worked with their team to design and develop easy-to-use sites that they turn on and update when the time comes each year. We’ve worked on their annual career workshop for graduate students, Rising Stars; we are responsible for building and maintaining the site for their undergraduate research program, MIT SuperUROP; we also built the internal site they use to manage their visiting committee, though for obvious reasons we can’t link to that site, since it’s private.
Since the same people at MIT would be managing these sites, we started by getting a sense of how they wanted to work in general; we wanted to make sure the site supported, not supplanted, their existing workflows. Once we were clear on how they set up for each of these workshops, we developed each site in a way that they’d find intuitive, allowing them to use the spreadsheets they were already keeping of their students and attendees to automatically populate much of the content of each of the sites.
The Sloan Management Review
We have a substantial number of staff working to maintain and further develop the Sloan Management Review, the publication of MIT’s School of Management. Our team is responsible for all of the frontend development, but also:
Integrating the magazine’s paywall & subscription service
Keeping the servers humming
Collaborating with the MIT team to put together special infographic features like SMR’s Culture 500
PAIA (Product Attributes to Impact Algorithm)
MIT partnered with Cisco, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, Dell and Lenovo to develop a tool called PAIA. PAIA exists to help tech companies reliably estimate the environmental impact of their products, allowing them to keep their stakeholders at large properly informed.
Many major tech companies use PAIA, and MIT needed a platform that they could use to access the system as well as provide an area to market PAIA membership to new organizations. We designed and developed a simple site that was elegant enough not to feel out of place next to the organizations that are PAIA members.
