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The Book of
Snowboarding

Interactive Smart Screens for the Fondation Beyeler

The municipality of Riehen is moving with the times and has started using smart screens for its digital communication this year. In addition to community publications and location data, the info screens also offer an attractive platform for cultural activities.

As part of BURRI.digital, Nerves was tasked to develop a cityDISPLAY module which allows for the easy integration of external content (like event calendars, map data, or public transit connections), as well as a user-friendly content management system that allows for additional features such as digital posters and advertising. The module can be configured and tailored as needed, and can provide different flavors of the frontend depending on where the screen is physically located.

A simulated version of the touch screen can be tested here. The physical screens, built by BURRI public elements, can be found in Riehen, Basel.

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Development Strategy
Schaffhausen 2030

What does Schaffhausen of tomorrow look like? The canton, representatives of the economy and the population have worked out their vision of the future with "next", a common direction and over 60 project ideas for the next 10 years. We designed and implemented the digital platform for the development strategy.

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ISS News

Re-launch of ISS News - Neat!

Credit Suisse Asset Management Portal


Credit Suisse Asset Management, along with their innovation team from the iAM Lab, recognized the importance of a truly interactive clickable prototype to properly test and ultimately deliver the best possible user experience for the new Asset Management Portal.

Traditional web prototypes often don't have the amount of flexibility needed for an agile development approach, resulting in static mock-ups and an untested result. That's why at Nerves we love to implement prototypes using real, made-for-production frameworks and technologies, allowing us to move fast and integrate changes and feedback across-the-board immediately.

We found a great partner in Nerves. With great commitment they were able to deliver concrete solutions, crucial for the user experience, in a very short time.
Pascal R. Nägeli, Chief Digital Officer Credit Suisse Asset Management

With over 470 billion USD in assets under management, and 440 investment funds, the new Asset Management Portal will provide a key service for the wide array of customers and is part of the Credit Suisse push into digitalization.

Nerves was tasked to design and develop, over a set of seven sprints and fourteen weeks, a fully-functional clickable portal prototype, including the user interface, master layouts, key functionality and a staging backend for simple business logic and data warehousing. Our implementation even includes implementations of proprietary portfolio strategies and a fully functional fund filter and search mechanism.

The prototype caters for multiple user profiles and encompasses the requirements from multiple divisions at Asset Management. Serving as the foundation and gold-standard, the prototype has proven itself as very valuable throughout all phases of the rather complex and large portal IT project.

Entitychain

Blockchain is all the hype in the web3 tech space. However, there are overwhelmingly many cases where blockchain just doesn't make sense as a technical foundation. Some of blockchain's most powerful features, such as it's distributed nature and publicly verifiable cryptographic ledger, isn't needed in many private business cases.

That's why we created the Entitychain – a simple yet powerful ledger of events that are tied to entities (objects). Entitychain is founded on our extensive experience building web platforms for business-critical operations, with simplicity and the human at the center. We wanted something that is easy to read and understand, while providing a robust and extensible platform. It's very simple: everything in the Entitychain is a string of events that link entities together – forming the ledger. The ledger (the string of events) can be viewed in it's entirety or just a specific section that is relevant to you. You can focus on any entity or event and explore its graph in the Entitychain universe. And, importantly, the ledger allows for easy diagnostics and tracking, as well as management over any entities lifespan. Oh, and it's lightweight and fast as hell.

Our in-house Machinata web platform now comes with an Entitychain module and editor. It allows anyone to easily design and manage an Entitychain, and it allows developers to plugin data and events to the Entitychain with ease. Try it out yourself in the latest Machinata builds.

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Credit Suisse
Mortgage Calculator

Credit Suisse offers support on the way to owning a home, among other things with an interactive mortgage calculator. Concept, design and prototyping by Nerves.

Standard UI elements such as sliders were given additional hints to the user to indicate valid ranges and allow a potential house buyer to better understand the correlation between property price, own funds and income.

Not only did Nerves help design the new calculator, we also developed high-performance UI components that give more room for real-time processing of mortgage strategies. On typical desktop and mobile hardware the components draw and update in under 10ms.

Mode Suisse Edition 20

Key Visual, Posters, Invitation and Credit Sheet

Photography by Walter Pfeiffer

Impressions from the show (photos by Alexander Palacios)

SSMM 2021

What a comeback – Sika’s Senior Management Meeting in Flims was attended by 150 participants from over 25 countries, live and in-person.

Nerves supported the organisation of the prestigious one-week event from planning to execution.

Photos: Simon Reinker