Unimart

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The biggest e-commerce &#13; company in Costa Rica

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A retail company, but the heart of their business is the whole experience by the customer and that one behind the scenes coordinating all the preparation and delivery process. Being on the top of the line, technically speaking, and having every day better tools for their users to interact, is key for their success.

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The Key for any E-commerce company

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We complete an analysis to try to give the best user experience while the customer is using the app.

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Design process

“Besides being a highly qualified team in the technical and UX work, they have a startup mentality which makes them very agile to execute. This does not mean that they are not organized, for the opposite, they are highly structured in all areas. From the beginning, they understood our goals and have helped us achieve them without buts or excuses. We genuinely feel that the Akurey members with whom we work on a day-to-day basis are part of our own team.”

ROBERTOUnimart Co-founder

Wagon's features and brand's look and feel

Wagon

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Wagon is a company that uses data science which can be applied in many fields such as publicity, healthcare, and demographic by processing tons of data and bringing actionable insights to the customers.

Data science which brings you solutions

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The main data analyzed in Wagon is a huge amount of text which can come from where you need to. The power of this product is that it can give feedback, tendencies, and averages from the data.
 
 
 <h1 style="display:inline">Our challenge</h1> was to synthesize the complexity of the platform to a general understanding for the public.

Wagon website on a mobile phone screen with our products section

Creating a website to show all the potential of Wagon

Based on research about the technologies and data science platforms, we follow a look &amp; feel path that can give us the potential to stand out from the competition.

Branding

Wagon is an Akurey's indoor project. All the conceptualization started with Data Scientists, Engineers, and Designers. The webpage must reflect all the capabilities that Wagon is able and all it's potential. So the information was divided and grouped in order to bring clarity to the users and potential clients.

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conceptualization

By hand with the conceptualization and iterating proposals, copywriting and illustrations we concrete the information architecture of the site and with this, we could start building the whole website.

This website works now as a point of sale for Wagon and facilitates the sales department the presentation and explanation of the service provided.

Wagon retail introduction page for website

Final product

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User and Mobile POS App & Business Web App

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Zunify

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Zunify is a payment network that unifies the financial system in a single application to facilitate the payments experience. It offers you freedom and security when paying on site or online, by unifying your bank accounts on your cell phone (mobile app). It is intuitive, fast and practical, which guarantees you a better payment experience in your favorite merchants.

Unify all your bank accounts in one app

Build an infrastructure that is able to counterattack the risks of handling money transactions on behalf of the users.

Fintech Platform Security

Build a strong database and stable that’s able to change depending on the future integrations requirements.

Robust & Well-Structure Database

Zunify is a payment platform, it means new integrations are daily tasks: new stores, websites, locations, payment methods are the constants, so, the API and databases have to be as dynamic and flexible as possible.

Multiple Integrations

The main challenges

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This new technology in Costa Rica is pretty new, so, it was a challenge to keep the app as easy to use as possible in order to achieve great results and make the population start using it.

Understanding the process

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Design system for the website platform

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Two smartphones with the same app that generates and records charges.

Mobile POS

User APP

Engineer Director &amp; Co-Founder | Zunify
 “Working with Akurey gave us support to scale the development team according to our product’s needs and demands. Akurey’s team always exceeded expectations and delivered extraordinary results. When it comes to looking for excellent developers, Akurey is always going to be a perfect option.”

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Javier Herrera

The caregiving website is in three frames: large, medium, and small format

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Caregiving

A phone displaying the caregiving website on the landing page.

“Caregiving.com has one of the largest libraries of caregiving stories. Our community of bloggers and contributors takes care of aging parents, spouses, and anyone they consider family. Find consolation in their reflections and confidence in their advice.” Our work in Akurey was to provide a solid website to show the great potential of the platform.“

The blog who care for you as you care for your family and friends 

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The old portal used to be well-known and visited by many caregivers around the world, and also it already had a lot of valuable content to offer to that audience, but visually the website was in a bad shape and wasn’t giving the quality expected for nowadays websites. Now it's a more frequented, appealing, and user-friendly site.

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New Site Impact

Carely, CEO
 “Thanks to the Akurey team’s hard work and has shown flexibility when our development road map has changed, also they’ve been very supportive of our mission: to improve the care experience.”

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Mike Eidsaune

Joypath

Three smartphones show screens with the headings: “Neighborhood of grief”, “Welcome to Joypath”, and “Healing Pathways”.

The platform offers the user the opportunity to learn about grief and grieving and also effective ways to process the strong feelings and emotions that are a normal and natural part of grief.

JoyPath is your company on the journey of grief and loss

During the first stages of the project, we studied the grief process realizing that it is not linear and a person can go back and forward through the different stages. 
 
 User: Persons experiencing a grieving process ad need companionship during it.

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UNDERSTANDING THE GRIEVING PROCESS AND THE USER

4 screens with titles: “Your journey begins here”, “Understand grief”, “Visit Neighborhoods of Grief”, and “Healing Pathways"

We explore the user needs, and with the info propose an Information Architecture.

User exploration

Applying all the information we collect, we started to propose different usability patterns.

User-flow and wireframes

By taking the Information Architecture we propose several app structures.

SKETCHING AND WIREFRAMES

After the exploration of the look & feels of the app, we build a design system to build it quickly.

DESIGN SYSTEM

Design Process

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 <li>Reduce the communication barrier created by the language and time zone difference.</li>
 <li>Offer high scale-ability for fast growth.</li>
 <li>Team proficient in a wide variety of technologies.</li>
 <li>Project management and Team building.</li>
 <li>Innovation, prioritization and market entry.</li>
 <li>Partnership opportunities.</li>
 </ul>

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HOW WE HELPED

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PureHealth

3 phones with PureHealth app, the two on the sides have the title "Global Health Survey", and the middle has "Welcome Laura".

Through surveys, doctors gather the information that will help understand a patient's condition.
 
 The app improves the user's experience by helping complete day-to-day surveys easier and faster.
 
 With the information gathered from the app, doctors help their patients have a better quality of life.

Redefining quality of life

A person answering a “Global Health Survey” with a phone grabbed with both hands. Answers go from "Poor" to "Excellent".

Five smartphones with sketches of an app on them.

Wireframes

Since it is an app used for health we had to be sensitive about that and align the look & feel of the brand with the situation of the patients and propose an ideal visual language.

UI Exploration

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 <li>We created a user-friendly survey for the patients on the app</li>
 <li>We designed and developed the mobile app and the CMS (Customer Management System)</li>
 
 </ul>

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Carely

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The application connects friends, families and caregivers, to help organize visits, medications, appointments, and overall progress of the loved one.

A communication platform for everyone who loves someone who needs help.

The idea for Carely came to Mike Eidsaune after a personal experience with a family member. Watch the video to learn more.

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A difficult situation inspired a young entrepreneur

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Carely first approached AKUREY with a functioning app developed overseas. They required to implement new high-quality features its previous provider wasn’t capable of achieving.

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THE PROJECT

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 <li>Reduce the communication barrier created by the language and time zone differences.</li>
 <li>Offer high scale-ability for fast growth.</li>
 <li>Team proficient in a wide variety of technologies.</li>
 <li>Project management and Team building.</li>
 <li>Innovation, prioritization and market entry.</li>
 <li>Partnership opportunities.</li>
 </ul>

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Agile Methodology

Integrations

Quality Assurance and testing with real users

Feature improvements and constant optimizations

Feature Improvement

Our Work

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Carely, CEO
 “Thanks to the Akurey team’s hard work, we’ve been able to turn our vision of two-way, real-time messaging between families and providers into a reality. The team has shown flexibility when our development road map has changed, and they’ve been very supportive of our mission: to improve the care experience for families everywhere!”

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Wunderman Thompson

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+ 100

+ 40

<h2 style="display:inline;font-size: 2.3rem;">Our relationship has been filled with great experiences</h2> and has grown stronger year after year.
 
 
 According to WT, with AKUREY they guarantee a professional, fully qualified and culture-fit partnership.

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Automobile

Gaming

Public Services

Consumer Mobility

Real Estate

Publicity

Covered Industries

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 <li>Full Stack Developers</li>
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 <li>PMs (Project Managers)</li>
 <li>UX / UI Designers</li>
 <li>Tech Leads</li>
 </ul>

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Akurey Professional Profiles THAT HAVE WORKED WITH WT:

And we constantly use cutting-edge technologies to achieve the client’s goals.

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We turn ideas intoreal-world solutions

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Eight logos: Acura, PGA Tour, Frontier, School Milk, Goalkeepers, CenterWell, conEdison, NYPHIL.

WT’s Clients with Akurey’s presence

Wunderman Thompson | Director of Technology
 “Over the course of the years many projects have been done and many clients have seen their needs satisfied, but most important a group of individuals have been part of this success, have been teammates bringing quality and professionalism to these projects. To me working with these individuals has been a great learning experience, they have demonstrated not only their hard skills but also their human skills. They have shown interest in giving life to great experiences. Over the years great memories have been built between WT and Akurey. From long and difficult projects to small and fun ones. From coming to our office and filling it with their energy and character. Akurey keeps growing and raising the bar every year and we all feel fortunate to have them being part of our teams.”

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Adrián Calderón

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Indigo Slate

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According to Indigo Slate, <h2 style="display:inline;font-size: 2.3rem;">AKUREY</h2> has always found the <h2 style="display:inline;font-size: 2.3rem;">best solutions</h2> to meet their needs.

Relentless support and friendship!

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 <li>Full Stack Developers</li>
 <li>Front-end Developers</li>
 <li>Back-end Developers</li>
 <li>PMs (Project Managers)</li>
 <li>UX / UI Designers</li>
 </ul>

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Professional Profiles THAT WORKED WITH Indigo Slate:

And we have used plenty of cutting-edge technologies to achieve the client’s goals. For us, it has been an incredible experience and we are thankful to be able to help them and interact with projects of such impact and scope.

Six white logos: Vue.js, CSS3, HTML5, Java, NUXT JS, ANGULAR.

Indigo Slate is a digital agency that generates revolutionary and immersive campaigns and experiences for their clients; they work for big brands such as:

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Client Projects involving Akurey

Indigo Slate | UI Tech Director
 “Akurey has been such an amazing partner to us, helping out every time we needed, even when the requests seemed impossible to be fulfilled. 
Thank you so much Akurey! We truly appreciate your relentless support and friendship!”

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José andrés Araya

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Datalitica

Datalitica has multiple interesting and challenging projects. AKUREY’s team has been a baseline to deliver exceeding expectations.

THrough time We HAVE BECOME Key partners!

Education

Apparel Retail

Food Tech

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Akurey Professional Profiles WHO ARE WORKING WITH datalitica:

We have been working together on mobile development, web development, and architecture definition, applying technologies such as:

Seven white logos: GO, React, Java, Rails, Python, Kubernetes, Swift.

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Datalitica, COO
 "Partnering with Akurey has given our business an incredible booster in terms of customer reach, capacity, as well as in the quality of the engineering services we provide. Not only are their engineers smart, talented and ready to take on new challenges at any point, but they are also an amazing group of individuals to work with: fun, caring and incredible human beings. We couldn't be happier to be working with them and we look forward to partnering with Akurey for many years to come!"

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OUR WORK

UNIMART

WAGON

ZUNIFY

CAREGIVING

JOYPATH

PUREHEALTH

CARELY

WUNDERMAN THOMPSON

INDIGO SLATE

DATALITICA

Our services

Consultancy

Staffing

Technology

Design