With the announcement of our new product lineup today, there’s plenty to be excited about around The Lab. High on our list is seeing the Discovery Cloud coming out of beta and entering the publicly-available realm! The experience has been tailored and optimized to make the document review process as efficient and easy to manage [...]
Archive for the ‘Behind The Scenes’ Category
Discovery Cloud goes public
Posted in Behind The Scenes, Discovery Cloud, EDD, Featured Feature, New Features on November 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bratfest!
Posted in Behind The Scenes, tagged bratfest on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s time we got serious on this blog. The Nextpoint Lab is located in Madison, WI and like any good Wisconsin guys n’ gals, we look forward to a summer filled with some serious grilling out. What better way to truly kick of summer than with the world’s largest grill? Photo is from our lunchtime [...]
The True Cost of Stamping
Posted in Behind The Scenes, EDD, Featured Feature, Tips & Tricks, tagged Bates Stamping, Exhibit Stamping, Review, Trial Prep on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Applying stamps to documents and exhibits has, historically, been a painful task: put a stamp on every page in this file cabinet. For some shops, the process has actually become more cumbersome with the introduction of electronic evidence: print everything on this hard drive – stamp it – scan it back in. In the past [...]
Simplifying feature design
Posted in Behind The Scenes, Deep Thoughts, EDD on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How do we design new features at Nextpoint? We identify the essence of a feature and get it in the hands of users. Typically it goes something like this: 1. We brainstorm… use our imaginations and throw out a lot of “wouldn’t it be cool ifs” without any real consequence. 2. Identify the major technical [...]
Improved Color Document Support
Posted in Behind The Scenes, EDD, tagged presentation, theater on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Up until recently, our support of color documents has been, well, lacking. We’ve known this for a while, and it’s been a monkey on our back. Recently, we rolled out some major improvements to our color document support. Color docs look better everywhere, especially theater. Theater still retains all of it’s usability, including highlighting, underlining, [...]
Chat
Posted in Behind The Scenes, EDD, tagged aim blast, campfire, communication, twitter, yammer on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re always looking to improve the way we communicate what we’re working on. Sometimes with the whole world, sometimes with our customers or the rest of our company, but lately we’ve been taking a more concentrated look at improving the communication within The Lab. Our environment and management have always promoted great communication lines but [...]
Reducing Bandwidth
Posted in Behind The Scenes, tagged bandwidth, browser caching, expires header, rails on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As a user, one of the best ways to improve your online experience is to avoid downloading repetitive files. It’s a two way street though: If the site you’re visiting doesn’t put any effort into it – you’re (often) not going to be able to do much from the user perspective. A great place to [...]
Quick and Easy Annotated Images
Posted in Behind The Scenes, tagged screenshot, skitch on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had a few people ask me what tool I’m using to annotate some of the images in recent posts. Things like this: Skitch makes it incredibly quick to do the simple things that I really want. I’m not looking for anything fancy (at all). Just through some text on there – a few arrows [...]
