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Introducing Navigational Keyboard Shortcuts
July 17, 2018
Get around faster with Keyboard Shortcuts, an easy way to navigate our most used pages.
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Organizing
Design
Visualize Your Campaign's Data in a Whole New Way
October 19, 2017
Campaigns are fast moving and deal with a ton of data - whether its coming from their field, digital, or fundraising teams. Organizers and staff need a quick way to analyze their data and see if their campaign is on track.
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Product
How We Incorporate User Feedback into Our Products
October 5, 2017
We care about what you think and are constantly working to improve our products. We’ve put together a suite of tools and frameworks to help us better incorporate user feedback into our everyday product decisions so that we can create a better product experience for you.
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ProgressUI
We're Refreshing Our Look
September 28, 2017
We’re excited to announce the first in a series of updates that refresh the look and feel of our products. We’ve been hard at work improving our internal product development processes and building out a new version of ProgressUI, our internal user experience framework. We're rolling out a refresh that focuses on fonts, colors, and other minor changes that we believe will make our products easier to use. Here's what changed:
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ProgressUI
We're Improving Our Process to Improve Our Products
September 21, 2017
A few years ago, we recognized that we could do better when it came to the user experience of our products. We formed a design team, hiring user researchers, product designers, and front-end engineers. We got to work improving processes and building a suite of tools to help us work efficiently and effectively. We established product design principles, design guidelines, and built an all-new design system we call ProgressUI. Working with product leadership, we changed the product development process to incorporate design and user feedback early and often. These changes have helped us push the design and experience of our product forward and we’ve learned a lot.
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Organizing
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Introducing Dashboard
July 13, 2016
VAN is the technology backbone of nearly every Democratic campaign and progressive organization in the country. Every day from now until November, thousands of organizers and volunteers will use VAN to manage key aspects of their work - but we know that it hasn’t always been easy for people to jump right into the work they need to do. That’s why we built Dashboard.
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Organizing
Design
Mobile Canvassing Gets Major Upgrade with Script Branching on MiniVAN
June 30, 2016
More than ever before, campaign volunteers are ditching clipboards and paper lists for canvassing apps like MiniVAN. Mobile canvassing is already completely transforming field programs, helping canvassers get out the vote more easily and efficiently. Now, we’re ready to take field organizing to the next level – by introducing Script Branching on MiniVAN.
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Organizing
Digital
Design
Cutting-Edge Digital Tools Aren’t Just for Fundraising - Introducing Field Automation on VAN
June 27, 2016
Traditionally, innovations in the digital political world have been focused primarily around online fundraising. Innovations like one-click donations, mobile responsive forms, welcome series emails, pre-filling form fields, and A/B testing have long been focused on improving conversion rates for contribution forms. That’s been great for digital fundraisers, but what about organizers? Today we’re excited to announce the launch of an entirely new suite of digital tools just for organizers: introducing Field Automation, Targeted Email, and Online Actions on VAN.
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Organizing
Design
Introducing Sidebar Navigation in VAN
May 3, 2016
We’re constantly working to improve our products and make them easier for our customers to use. One thing we’ve continued to hear is that you want a better way to move around VAN. Everyone from volunteers to administrators want to complete their work faster and more easily. There’s so much you can do in VAN - from cutting turf, to phone banking, to managing contacts - and our users asked for a streamlined way to complete tasks, one that doesn’t rely on main menu. So, we’ve designed something that allows you to do just that: Sidebar navigation in VAN.
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Design
VAN 5.2 Update Features ProgressUI Overhaul
December 3, 2015
We take pride in designing experiences that help our users change the world, one action at a time.
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