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We have been incrementally rolling out a simplified dashboard menu for race directors. We showed the simplified menu to new users a couple of months ago. We will be rolling out the simplified menu to everyone on Monday (don’t worry if you are a power user – those instructions are toward the bottom of this […]
Good Time Event Services (GT Races) is located in Kentucky and has been in the timing business for 12 years. The company originated with a focus on simply supporting the local running and cycling community with effective and accurate event timing. Their natural passion for partnering with events to provide the end participant with a […]
As a website, the user experience is very important to us. Our UX Developers, Jeff and Darren, took some time at this year’s Symposium to talk about the UX changes that have been happening within the company for the past year. From new features to our rebranding, they’ll walk you through what has changed and […]
Teams and Groups are becoming an increasingly popular way to attract participants. However, there are always questions about how to make this as simple and obvious as possible to attract the most people. On Monday, August 6, we are taking another step forward as part of our User Experience Manifesto to help races maximize the […]
We did a nice little update on the coupon reports page: This is what is used to look like:
One year ago, we made this pledge: Our Commitment: RunSignUp will not only have the most feature rich race management platform, we will also have the leading user experience for participants, race directors, race management companies and timers by the end of 2017, and will continually improve the user experience into the future. Our goal […]
We have released a major update to our race wizard. Here is a quick overview of what was included in this update: Refresh the look of the wizard with a clean modern design. Improve the usability and flow of the wizard. We scrutinized each UI element for improvements. Remove elements that are not needed in […]
We are happy to announce we’ve redesigned our setup wizard screens to make the process easier and to ensure readability outdoors on race day. Using more vibrant, contrasting colors, you can now get race day ready on site, even on the sunniest of days. We’re excited by the new improvements and think you will be […]
As part of our UX Manifesto, we have redesigned the login/signuppage.
We have been updating our CRM over the past few months; giving it a fresh new design and enhanced features. Utilizing this information will allow you to provide a better experience for your attendees, giving you a distinct advantage over your competition. At RunSignUp we know how important it is to build meaningful relationships and […]
If you haven’t switched your race to the new website template, this is yet another nudge in that direction. We have improved the footer area for the new race website to include all of the links to pages at the bottom of each page, as well as a simple “Contact This Race” link. If you […]
We have released another update to our new Race Websites Template, with some new cool options: Facebook Feed Twitter Feed Countdown clock Event highlight labels Redesigned dashboard page for customization Here is a sample page with the new content and countdown clocks and event highlight: This shows a simple example of the event highlighting: Setup […]
We continue to make continuous improvements on the new Race Website template, with some more improvements expected next week. We will be shifting all new races to this new template by default. Remember you can shift your race website to the new look and feel very easily – just refer to our original announcement on […]
You might notice that our homepage looks a little different. As web trends and technologies evolve, company websites that once were modern and fresh can start to feel a little tired. RunSignUp is a growing and innovative company and it needs to have a website that reflects that. That is why we have launched a […]
Note: The new Race Website has been released on January 2, 2017! Soon after your New Year Eve’s celebration, we will be releasing a major upgrade for Race Websites. This will provide every race with a second, more modern option that has a lot of flexibility in the design. Here is a sample default page: […]
We are dropping support for versions of Internet Explorer older than Version 11 on the Race Dashboard. This version was released in October, 2013 so older versions are pretty, pretty old. There is very little use of older browsers, and making the compromises in user functionality is detrimental to the majority of our users. Thanks […]
We’ve been working hard on big enhancements to the usability and design of the registration process. Here is a breakdown of the changes! 1. Full-screen layout Why full-screen? It declutters the interface and focuses the user on registration…which is what we want, right? Full-screen gives us more white space, which increases the clarity of the page […]
As part of our UX Manifesto, we continue to roll out many improvements. One you may notice over the next week or so is a proliferation of the new look of our tables. For example: and
We know we have some old diehards using the horizontal menu layout, but we will be retiring that soon as part of our User Experience design work. Hopefully all the other cool stuff we are coming out with will make up for getting rid of this ugly menu…
We’ve been working on some small, incremental changes to improve the Race Dashboard. Here’s what’s new! Before: After: 1. Introducing the Avatar Menu! It has a picture of you (yay!), and has all of your useful things in it: 2. Top Menu moved into Avatar Menu. The Top Menu doesn’t need to be out at […]
Our great User Experience team updated the new Child Privacy registration path to be simpler and friendlier to understand with the following replacing wordy radio button options: Geez, our site if getting friendlier and friendlier to use!
The Race Analytics Dashboard has released a flurry of new capabilities to help races understand their promotion, demographics, registrations and transactions better. (You may also have noted the nice progress on the overall User Experience of the race dashboard with the new fresh colors.) There are now more than 15 graphs giving you a quick […]
Darren joined us our User Experience team on Monday, and he released an improvement on Thursday! While it was a simple change, he got thru the gauntlet of setting up his development environment, Github access, understanding how we do branches and merges, our page structure, our CSS structures, how we do code reviews and process […]
We are happy to welcome Darren Wamboldt to the RunSignUp Team! Darren joins Jeff Kiesel and Meredith Klein as part of our User Experience Manifesto. Darren has led the RaceIT User Experience effort for the past 5 years. Coupling his deep passion for UI design, his coding abilities and his industry knowledge will help make our offerings even better for […]
We have released the start of the new Profile Page. This will evolve over the coming weeks to provide easier access to the relevant things that participants need and want. Note the increased use of icons for easy browsing, the soft rounded profile picture, and the initials if there is no profile picture. Soon we […]
We have released our new Dashboard (well, the beginnings of it!). The Overview page shows a quick snapshot of the past 7 days, with convenient totals above the graph. Date ranges can be quickly changed. The more detailed chart is shown below the quick summary graph. In addition to the Overview, you can see the […]
We are happy to welcome Meredith Klein to the RunSignUp Team! Meredith joins Jeff Kiesel as part of our User Experience Manifesto. Meredith has been working as a consultant for the past month and a half with us – designing the individual results page we recently released. Right now she is working on a new […]
We released this in a number of phases over the past month, but it is a good example of how we are committed to our User Experience Manifesto of making the best user experience for race directors and participants. The new main table is cleaner with new typography for easier reading/scanning and brings a fresh […]
We have added an option to hide the bar on race website headers that appears by default under the race name (which you can also hide). Here is the before: And the after: You can set this on the Race Theme page setup:
We are starting to roll out our new Race Promotion Dashboard combined with our RunSignUp Analytics. While this will become very powerful over time, this initial release is very cool. This chart today only shows the number of Pageviews by day using the data we are collecting via the new RunSignUp Analytics engine underneath our […]
Our Commitment: RunSignUp will not only have the most feature rich race management platform, we will also have the leading user experience for participants, race directors, race management companies and timers by the end of 2017, and will continually improve the user experience into the future. Our goal is to create easy to use technology […]
Jeff Kiesel started a couple of weeks ago to lead efforts improving the User Interface and User Experience for both participants and race directors. Jeff worked with us part time a few years ago, and we are lucky he responded to our call for a new UI/UX Developer. Bob has worked with Jeff at two […]
