Design
Zivtech is a tightly integrated design and development shop. We collaborate in our Philadelphia office to deliver beautiful, intuitive, and highly scalable websites and web applications.
In June 2009, Design for Drupal (D4D) became the Drupal community's first camp dedicated to design and front-end development. Now an annual event, the MIT Stat Center hosted D4D4 from July 14-15, 2012.
First published in 1997, Jacket was one of the world’s earliest online poetry and poetics magazines. In 2011, the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania acquired Jacket with the intention of reinvigorating the website with new content and a new name, Jacket2.
Marsalis Music approached Zivtech looking for a system capable of managing a deep catalog of releases and an active schedule of upcoming recordings, live performances, news, and videos. After identifying Drupal as the best solution, we created a compelling design that marries an intuitive user interface with sophistication and a hint of surprise.
The National Writing Project is a network of websites anchored by educational institutions that serve teachers of all disciplines and levels.
Roadside Theater is a theater group and nonprofit organization committed to preserving Appalachia's oral story-telling traditions of ballads and stories, through plays and performances. The group documents these pieces in essays, audio clips, videos, and photographs.
Woodcock Washburn, LLP is an international intellectual property law firm with offices in the United States, Japan, China, Germany, and France. In May 2011, Woodcock Washburn, LLP contracted Zivtech to redesign (but not redevelop) their .NET-based website.
Philosophy
Aesthetically, our design team approaches each project independent of others. We strive to create original solutions based on content. We trust content and let it guide us to our design solution.
Process
Our design process revolves around client communication and participation. It begins during the discovery phase. We work with our clients to define content in terms of style, scale, and relationship.
Technology
Our coding designers are at the forefront of new design technology. They code with HTML5 and CSS3, including the Sass extension and Compass framework.