January 29, 2016
Project Roundup: North Castle Partners & Wanderlust 108s
For this edition of Project Roundup, we’re featuring our recent work for North Castle Partners and Wanderlust 108s.
For this edition of Project Roundup, we’re featuring our recent work for North Castle Partners and Wanderlust 108s.
Mosaic is a new Barrel-made theme for the Shopify Theme Store.
For this edition of Project Roundup we’re featuring our recent work for Kallyope, a new biotech startup focused on studying the gut-brain link, and Columbia...
For this edition of Project Roundup we’re featuring our recent work for Gitman Brothers, TestRocker, and Columbia Chemistry.
For this edition of Project Roundup, we’re featuring our recent work for Vermont Smoke & Cure and KIND UK.
Three times a week, we set up a spread of healthy ingredients in our kitchen and encourage our team members to build their lunch.
QA begins before the product even goes to a dedicated tester. Here's how developers can be an integral part of the process.
Why content shock doesn't need to be scary and how content can help you connect with your existing customer base.
Our third installment on Cult Fitness brands that looks at how CrossFit approaches its web ecosystem.
For our second installment on Cult Fitness, we examine email engagement strategies.
Shipping is important to online shoppers. We explore 5 UX considerations for shipping for a better e-commerce experience.
A healthy amount of our business comes as inbound leads through our website and email. We share 5 areas that we examine to determine whether we pursue a lead.
Cult fitness brands are able to command huge followings in life and on social media. We take a look at four brands and the strategies they utilize on Instagram in the...
Below we've highlighted 8 ways to increase e-commerce personalization through guided selling and 16 examples of how these techniques have been implemented across...
Millennials are driving the healthy lifestyle trend. Learn about what healthy means to them and what they want from brands.
We examine the USA Triathlon's email marketing activities and recommend a better way to engage new members with email.
A look at LeadIn, a WordPress plugin that collects helpful information on website visitors.
UX designers Yvonne Weng and Angel Ng show how to make interactive site maps on UXPin.
A showcase of our work for Columbia College Alumni Association and Urban Soil.
Messenger is becoming more than just a messaging app, foraying into territories that overlap with WeChat, Whatsapp and Instagram.
6 brand blogs in the healthy lifestyle space that are successful and what they are doing effectively to create and deliver content to consumers in an engaging way.
We celebrated Earth Week at Barrel with a combination of personal pledges and company-wide activities.
A look at how YogaGlo hooks users in with its various user experience features.
E-commerce websites can benefit greatly from the subscription feature. We explore six essential tactics for implementing subscriptions.
What pages make up an e-commerce website? We walk through 25 pages that are essential for a great e-commerce experience, with lots of examples and screenshots.
We helped Bike New York roll out a new website on its new domain, www.bike.nyc. Here are five lessons we're taking away from the experience.
We've started a curation project to help facilitate discussions about websites that integrate design, content, and technology in beautiful, accessible, and effective...
Developing a jQuery plugin shouldn’t be seen as something reserved only for highly-experienced developers. This article takes you through the process of building a...
Our 3rd annual internal hackathon was a blast. Take a look at what our teams created over 2 days.
Web apps require designers to think through numerous details. Sometimes, a few very important areas get overlooked.
Content is critical to a successful user experience. Learn about the five content ingredients and how they help.
As we celebrate 8 years of being in business, we know what's important to us and what we want for Barrel.
A guide to building a Backbone.js web app from scratch by leveraging the power of CodeIgniter and Grunt.
Designing modular systems for our projects may require a significant change in approach, but the benefits can be great.
In our pursuit to create longer lasting websites, we’ve embraced a modular approach to web design because it prioritizes long-term consistency and scalability.
A Producer's thoughts on the importance of the internal on-boarding process for the team on the project.
We've created an effective "cheat sheet" that plays a key role in our website design process with clients and team members.
This final part of our three-part series on WordPress membership functionality dives into the making of a paywall for your website.
This second of a three-part series on WordPress membership functionality walks you through the ins and outs of the user registration.
The first of a three-part tutorial series on mastering membership functionality in WordPress.
Five helpful tips geared towards clients looking to successfully manage a web project.
Meaningful visual design begins before any sketch or file is created. Learn how we define our practice at Barrel along with principles to guide your own.
A playbook of communication methods that have helped us to foster a more open culture.
Find a place for animation in your workflow. Learn about the new tools that allow us to quickly communicate our animation ideas.
The hard (and sometimes painful) lessons we learned from building our own SaaS product.
After a year in our current office, it's a good opportunity to reflect on things we've learned from planning, building, and working in our space.
It's time we truly define our expertise and stop trying to cater to a wide range of clients.
Four simple but deadly image loading techniques that will make your site look great and perform at its best.
The Facebook API may have a terrible reputation but there is something admirable about the familiarity of FQL.
Web development demands a broad set of skills. Through specialization, developers at Barrel increase their value by focusing on what they do best.