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Come to ZURBsoapbox:
ZURBexpo is an exhibition of product design ideas to help you design great products faster. →
Our latest blog post:
Nonprofits everywhere get stuck and lose site of the value they can create for people. ZURBwired is our annual 24 hour design marathon where we donate our time to help one lucky nonprofit break through organizational paralysis and solve a big challenge; whether it be marketing for an upcoming event, or completely overhauling their website and brand—and we get it all done in 24 hours.
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"The ZURB Team is really something special in and of itself. On the way home Friday morning I was thinking of the experience as a whole, working with so many talented people without any egos or hierarchy, there weren't any crisis or meltdowns, the build was such a wonderful feat of teamwork. It's been a long time since I've had that experience, really miss it. Can you create an app for that? J Maybe call it ZURB Juice.
We couldn't be more grateful to have had opportunity, and I'm glad that the ZURB team enjoyed themselves as much as we did."
Melissa Driscoll, Development & Community Relations Manager at RCS, ZURBwired 2011
"From everyone at RAFT, Greg and Dave, and me - thank you very very much! Compared to the last website which we've done which took 2 years this was absolutely painless. Thank you! I'm out of words! We're in the business of making things memorable and this was definitely memorable."
Mary Simon, Executive Director at RAFT, ZURBwired 2010
"It was amazing. It has really exceeded my expectations. We had priorities of what we wanted to accomplish which was the campaign materials and the invitations. I actually thought we would not get to invitations, but we did not even finish that but we did a number of other things we did not anticipate. It was amazing how productive everyone was and how much energy everyone had!"
Susan Peterson, Pie Ranch Board Member, ZURBwired 2009
It's been an amazing race to get everything done in the last 24 hours, but we we're able to pull it off and more. We paced ourselves evenly throughout the day by using lessons we've learned from the last three events.
After 24 Hours, we we're able to finish:
In addition to the project pieces, we were also able to document the entire process:
Here is a screenshot of the final designed website:
Here is a screenshot of the old website before we spent the last 24 hours redesigning and launching the new website:
We designed this 24-hour event to help us give back to our community with maximum impact and help get one nonprofit unstuck.
More about ZURBwired
The right organization for this needs to match the energy and commitment of ZURB's crack design team and volunteers for 24 hours. This is no joke!
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Do you have the commitment and skills to make a big difference in a short time?
Get involved!
This is by far the most amazing project I've had the opportunity to take part in. The creativity and teamwork of everyone at ZURB is indescribable. ZURBians you ROCK! Let's do it again.
—Melissa Driscoll, RCS
Jim and I caught up on the print project this morning, and then went through ZURBWired and checked out the new site for Rebekah's Children Services. Congratulations!!! Everything looks awesome. Hope you rest up and enjoy the weekend.
—Amy Witmer (Our partner PrintHQ)
As I head to bed, ZURBians are still wide awake designing for good and not for evil. So proud of the team!
—@erinmichel
I also wanted to thank you again for inviting me to be part of this ZURB tradition. It was great to work with some of the new members of your team. I had a great time!
—Alina Senderzon (Volunteer)
Really glad Rebekah's was picked for #ZURBwired this year. Was fun working with the ZURBians to redesign their site in 24 hrs.
—@chatche
ZURBwired reminds me of charityhack from last year, but properly structured to produce really good stuff!
—@kassy4
ZURBwired has wrapped, and I miss you guys already. I'll plan a surprise visit with Churro Cupcakes in the near future. Put up my first blog post on the new site today, and am so excited that I was able to change the background color from #000000 to transparent in html code, this could be dangerous! :)
—Melissa Driscoll, RCS
