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Designers working on large software products often have a difficult and counterintuitive lesson to learn. They need to learn to let go of some control in order to design at scale. Left to their own devices, designers will try to control every pixel of a product, and have rationale for every piece of UI and […]
After 10+ years of development, the RunSignup platform has a lot of features that we are proud of. Of course, not everyone uses all the features, but each feature needs a place to live, so that our users can navigate to it, and use it if they choose to. The sheer amount of features we […]
We’ve released a small update that will give you even better at-a-glance information on your My Races screen, whether you want to confirm that race is up and running or you want to make sure your registration is closed. The last column on the right now contains a Race Status indicator: Just like on the […]
We strive for having an accessible end user experience. Being inclusive is an important part of product ownership. As an example, in a recent case study for a large potential client, we scored “all green” for their race website and registration process using the Google Accessibility Tool. We are achieving greater and greater levels of […]
Over 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 little things add up, and we thought we were doing well. Then, we […]
We 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, and examples, even videos. Their principles are sometimes baked into […]
The 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 system is a collection of reusable components and guidelines that help ensure consistency and […]
Your RunSignup CRM is the place to keep ALL of your participant information. Importing participants is important to every race – whether you still get paper entries still, or have some last minute registrations, or you are moving to RunSignup from another platform (thank you!). We’ve updated our longtime Import Participants tool! Here is the […]
Things may look a bit different today when you sign in to RunSignUp. We’ve updated the MyRaces screen to make things easier to use. The new search bar makes it very easy to find your race. When the screen loads, your mouse cursor is already placed in the search field for you, so you can […]
Hi All, We’ve done some more spring cleaning, and applied our new dashboard style to the Club Dashboard: Everything is where you would usually find it, just with a fresh, modern style update. We’re going to be making some small updates to this new dashboard style over the next few weeks. Over the next few […]
Hi All! As a Spring Cleaning exercise, we’ve updated our Race Dashboard with a clean, modern visual update: Everything in the left navigation is the same as before, it just has an updated style. Likewise, everything in the Race Title Tile is still there, just moved around a bit. We will be making minor adjustments […]
Hi All, We just released a new feature, the Race Status Indicator. Here are some screenshots, and an explanation. The Race Status Indicator will display like an ‘LED light’ next to the Race Title. The Race Status Indicator can be red (requires action), yellow (warning), or green (good) – depending on what’s going on with […]
Hi All, We’ve made some changes to the Race Dashboard; specifically to the top section of the dashboard, which we refer to as the Race Title Tile. Here’s what it has looked like recently: Here is what it looks like now: To switch races, click the name of the race: To view the race website, […]
