We’ve worked on hundreds of projects since our inception in 2017. Here are just a few examples of what we can do.
Client: Forum One / Project: National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) Website
Our work with our client Forum One on the NMAAHC website began in 2018, when we managed quality assurance for the new Smithsonian African American Film Fest website. After a successful launch, Forum One integrated us into their main NMAAHC website team, where we have provided QA direction and execution for a wide variety of feature launches and updates. This includes a major CMS version upgrade and associated migration, which required a massive, sitewide quality assurance effort and close collaboration with NMAAHC stakeholders.
Talking About Race
We have also provided QA for major NMAAHC initiatives such as Talking About Race, an award-winning project with a variety of visually engaging components, unique styles, and integrated resources that support difficult but necessary conversations about race. We not only made sure the Talking About Race microsite behaved as intended for both content editors and end users, but performed responsiveness and accessibility reviews as well, collaborating with Forum One and the NMAAHC team to ensure the final product was available to as many audiences as possible. More recently, we reprised a similar role for the Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal, which makes hundreds of thousands of previously unreleased records available to the public.
Service highlights:
Functional testing of complex features, such as expanding and updating NMAAHC’s collections search, which allows users to filter and sort on hundreds of possible values to explore the museum’s vast collection
Accessibility reviews for new features, using SortSite and manual accessibility checks to smooth subsequent reviews by Smithsonian accessibility stakeholders
Browser and device testing at page and component levels, collaborating with the client team to identify all planned component variations (covering over 40 different pages) and reviewing across nine different browser/device combinations
Sitewide regression planning, including authoring, reviewing and maintaining a tiered testing plan for minor and major releases and updates
Client: Forum One / Project: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Website
We provided quality assurance services for Forum One on the NRDC website from 2019 through 2024, joining Forum One’s larger efforts to support and enhance the NRDC site. We engaged on work ranging from routine fixes and maintenance to a full rebuild and redesign effort. The latter included a huge content migration effort, new and updated visual designs sitewide, and complex, integrated translation functionality.
Service highlights:
Quality Assurance planning and scoping, including both initial quality assurance planning deliverables and ongoing input into sprint refinement and acceptance criteria
Migration testing for complex, interrelated content and components during major CMS version and data structure update
Testing multilingual behavior for granular, CMS-integrated translation functionality, including testing behavior for both end users and content managers
Consulting and providing recommendations on launch planning and timelines
NRDC 50th Anniversary
The Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) engaged Forum One to build out an interactive timeline of its major milestones to commemorate its 50th anniversary. The scrollable timeline utilized high-quality visuals to illustrate its major battles and landmark victories for the environment over the past decades. Due to the front-end focus of this microsite, our QA focus was ensuring that users across a wide variety of devices experienced the same seamless, engaging journey through the organization’s history. The anniversary site was nominated for a Webby Award in 2021 under the Sustainability & Environment Websites and Mobile Websites category.
Service Highlight: Responsiveness, Browser, & Device Testing: There was no back end to this build, so we focused our efforts on ensuring that the highly-visual anniversary site worked well and looked great on a number of different devices and various browser widths. Responsiveness testing took place at the ticket level as opposed to the post-build period, and was a major focus throughout development.