Polished Products
Tertl designs and produces finished, mission-critical products for any combination of mobile, web, desktop, and device platforms.
- For the premier provider of global hotel industry market intelligence, whose core asset is a large, complex, constantly updated database, Tertl designed, built and deployed the flagship web and mobile app that lets customers track developments, monitor trends, and cultivate leads.
- For the startup storeyourtires.com we developed a complete business process system, integrating orders, deliveries, warehousing and invoicing, on a combination of desktop, web and mobile platforms.
Working Prototypes
Cheaper to build and easier to change, a functioning prototype can be the right first step to prove, demonstrate, investigate or refine a software concept.
- For research at the University of Vermont on breath games for children with respiratory conditions, Tertl developed a suite of working games, pioneering several different play modalities based on breath control.
- Tertl designed and prototyped UMass Medical School's Darwin's Dogs citizen science website.
- To enable a pilot study and help Pioneer Valley Books win a federal research grant, Tertl invented and prototyped tablet-based learning activities for beginning readers.
Winning Concepts
If you are a visionary, Tertl can help you refine and communicate your vision. Combining needs assessment, competitive analysis, and architectural review with your core vision and objectives, we find the opportunities to produce that Aha! moment: "I must have this product."
- For a health systems startup, Tertl helped clarify the vision for a flagship product and developed screen mockups that were used to help win the first large customer, and as a guide for in-house development.
“The businesses we serve are diverse and demanding. The tools we provide must be efficient, intuitive, polished, and customized.
Chris’s design leadership constantly creates new opportunities to make our customers happier and our own work simpler. He does it by understanding our business and users and maintaining a top-to-bottom technical and strategic vision. His team has executed extremely well, with reliability and professionalism.
Our company has always provided the best intelligence and now, thanks to Tertl, we deliver it with the best, most productive user experience. Our customers love the upgrade and are deepening their commitment to us. My staff is thrilled to be able to present our services in this winning new form.”
“Before we ever picked up our first set of tires, Tertl helped us think through our customer interactions and our order, pickup and tracking processes, and built the software that now runs our business. The software launched virtually bug-free and has been an invaluable asset for the efficient and smooth operation of our company for our 3+ years of operation.”
“Tertl helped us advance our initiative by delivering an innovative suite of games that play well, present well, and afford new ways for children to understand and challenge parameters of their breath. Throughout, we benefited from Chris’s unique blend of software artistry and research and startup savvy.”
“From the very first meeting, Tertl was helping us conceptualize our product. The design Chris’s team produced far exceeded our expectations in terms of clarity, power and attractiveness, and continues to help us win business.”
How We Build Software
We practice two critical disciplines. First, anticipation—of requirements, roadmaps, design choices, technical challenges, and communication pitfalls. Foresight is never 20-20, but we see farther ahead than most, because of our experience, and because we work at it. Second, because smaller projects are completed more efficiently, and with lower risk, than larger ones, we seek optimal development pathways that creatively trim, chunk, and sequence projects into grounded, manageable pieces: for example, through minimum viable products, working prototypes, module testing shells, and sequencing of deliverables into coherent interim products. To avoid technical debt, we strive to expose and fix bugs as early as possible—sometimes before they're even written. These practices go hand in hand with management transparency, involving the client at all phases of development.