Check Out a Few of Our Past Projects
See how we’ve used cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions to achieve results for our great clients.
Rivals Web & Mobile
Yahoo!
Background
With close to 3 million users, Rivals is a Yahoo Sports website that is the go-to site for college sports recruiting news.
Grio's Role
Since 2016, Grio has been Rivals' sole partner for development, design, devops, and on-call support.
Results
Rivals has seen a 12x increase in traffic to homepage, with a codebase that scales efficiently to meet heavy seasonal traffic loads.
Rivals.com publishers operate more efficiently thanks to the addition of modern, user-friendly publishing tools.
Mobile users can easily access and navigate the site through apps for both iOS and Android.
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Rivals Publishing Platform
Yahoo!
Background
Rivals Publishing is the Rivals Content Management System (CMS) that enables creators to publish consistently beautiful pieces of content for their followers.
Grio's Role
Since 2016, Grio has led the design and development of Yahoo’s Rivals website, along with its powerful CMS publishing tool.
Results
The Rivals publishing tool is used by authors and publishers nationwide.
Daikin HERO Cloud
Daikin North America
Background
The Daikin HERO Cloud is a responsive application created to visualize data from indoor units (IDUs) and outdoor units (ODUs), and remotely troubleshoot errors and alarms. The app works in tandem with Daikin HERO Simple Edge, the hardware device attached to rooftop units (RTUs).
Grio's Role
The Grio team designed the HERO Cloud application from the ground up, beginning with user testing and in-depth interviews to gather information regarding user motivations, highest-priority tasks, and current challenges.
Results
The HERO Cloud app now offers multi-site remote monitoring, live equipment data visualization, ODU and IDU refrigerant flow animation, and alarm notifications for troubleshooting, with more to come as Grio continues to design future versions of the HERO Cloud.
Daikin Design System
Daikin Open Innovation Lab, Silicon Valley
Background
Daikin Industries, Ltd. is a leading innovator and global provider of advanced, high-quality air conditioning and heating solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial applications.
Grio's Role
Grio performed a detailed usability analysis to produce an extensible design system architecture focused on common elements, such as colors, iconography, and patterns.
Results
Design, product, and marketing projects have accelerated now that these teams no longer need to spend time sorting through multiple versions of brand assets, and the Daikin brand is represented consistently across platforms, without any compromise in performance or accessibility.
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SPARK BUSINESS
Capital One
Background
SPARK BUSINESS is an app that helps small businesses better manage their finances and banking needs.
Grio's Role
Grio collaborated with Capital One to design the SPARK BUSINESS app by providing direction in UX, visual design, strategy, planning, and process.
Results
Deliverables were heuristic evaluations, a competitive analysis, persona development, MVP hypotheses, flow charts, wireframes, mockups, concept explorations, and prototypes. Grio also produced marketing site concepts, responsive designs, and a detailed style guide for SPARK BUSINESS.
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BigQuery Demo
Google
Background
BigQuery is technology for performing fast queries over massive datasets. It allows companies to iterate rapidly over their data, which allows users to ask more intelligent questions.
Grio's Role
When Google launched BigQuery, they hired Grio to showcase the power of this new tool in a visceral, visual way. Grio developed the demo tool using HTML5/CSS3 animations, integrations with Google Maps, and, of course, integration with the BigQuery API.
Results
The Grio team designed a fun, interactive “engine” to demonstrate how Big Query could be used.
Target iPad App
Target
Background
Target’s iPad app experience is intended to create a fun and easy shopping experience for users.
Grio's Role
Grio worked with Target to develop features that streamlined the user experience without compromising on security or reliability.
Results
Grio used cutting-edge innovations that allowed shoppers to discover trends via Instagram, browse weekly ads, easily shop all Target departments, and securely make their purchases.
Texture
Next Issue Media
Background
Acquired by Apple, Next Issue Media’s app, Texture, brings magazine subscriptions into the digital age - with one monthly payment, users get access to digital issues of over 200 popular magazines.
Grio's Role
Grio worked with the NIM team for more than two years to improve their app design and overall user experience, tackling everything from small, fast- turnaround projects to large, complex design efforts.
Results
In 2016, Texture’s app was selected by the App Store editorial team for the annual Best Of selections. In 2018, Texture was acquired by Apple.
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SIMPL App
Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative
Background
The SIMPL app provides a comprehensive platform for assessments, allowing surgical trainees to receive timely feedback, track their progress, and identify areas for improvement.
Grio's Role
Over the years, Grio has designed and developed multiple new features for the app, including full-stack development for native iOS and Android versions, as well as the backend server APIs & admin.
Results
Grio's most recent contribution has been working on a full app redesign as well as laying out a long term release strategy for the app that maximizes growth and usability.
Kleiner Perkins Signals App
Kleiner Perkins
Background
Kleiner Perkins is a century capital firm that needed their CRM overhauled. The solution was integral to KP’s strategy and investment meetings, scheduling, deal flow, and decision making.
The Signals Mobile App was a compliment to the CRM that allows trusted partners to have a direct path for information into this same pipeline.
Grio's Role
The CRM fed into analytics dashboards that displayed in the offices, action items and notifications for investors, and task assignments for administrators. Key triggers were surfaced for people at all levels of the organization.
Results
Grio designed and built the mobile app from scratch, integrating multiple business intelligence tools into the CRM. We also created an unstructured data intake mechanism to feed the information pipeline.
Gusto iOS & Android App
Gusto
Background
Gusto helps teams hire, pay, and insure employees with their all-in-one people platform. Gusto’s web and mobile products offer features such as full-service payroll, hiring and onboarding, benefits management, talent management and much more.
Grio's Role
Grio team members embedded in Gusto teams, providing mobile software development assistance for Gusto and contributing to a wide range of iOS and Android initiatives.
My Sutro Smart Monitor App
Sutro
Background
My Sutro is an IoT app that works with a smart monitor to measure the free chlorine, alkalinity, pH, and temperature of pools and spas. Sutro is a CES honoree for Most Innovative Smart Home Technology.
Grio's Role
Grio has worked with Sutro to design & develop nearly all of their device software, including a chatbot, a chemical recommendation engine, and the underlying app software for web, iOS and Android.
Results
Sutro’s My Sutro pool monitoring solution launched in the fall of 2019. Some of Grio’s most impactful contributions to date include: providing full stack development from Firmware to cloud on IoT devices, integrating a chatbot, adding marketing automation, and building a chemical recommendation platform. Additionally, Grio built a modular system that allowed the client to test the recommendations prior to completion of the full app, and to test the app prior to completion of the final hardware.
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Ceribell Clinician Web Portal
Ceribell
Background
Ceribell’s EEG device turns brainwaves into sounds, allowing front-line medical professionals, such as nurses and ER doctors, to quickly diagnose seizures and other brain function anomalies.
Grio's Role
Ceribell tapped Grio to build a medical-grade IoT platform for their novel electroencephalogram (EEG) device. The Grio team designed and built Ceribell’s FDA-approved cloud-based EEG system, the first of its kind.
Results
The Ceribell system is now used in clinical settings across the country to detect ongoing seizures, making EEGs more accessible, efficient, and cost-effective.
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CLiCC
University of California, Santa Barbara
Background
The Chemical Lifecycle Collaborative (CLiCC) tool is a groundbreaking application that analyzes and educates users about the intricate life cycle of chemicals in our environment.
Grio's Role
With funding from a grant provided by the US EPA, the UCSB team deeply understood the science behind what they wanted to build, but didn’t have the design or development expertise to carry out their product vision. The Grio team was brought on board to define, design, and build the MVP version of the CLiCC product.
Results
Grio project managers and designers engaged in an in-depth exploration of the project's requirements, enabling us to craft meticulous wireframes and designs for this complex tool. Grio developers built the application in React for a scalable and maintainable system.
The CLiCC product was launched in 2018 and continues to provide enable rapid, high-throughput screening of life-cycle impacts for new chemicals.
Twist Biosciences Phage Detection
Twist Biosciences
Background
Twist Biosciences’ DNA-based tools have enabled researchers across a variety of scientific disciplines to achieve groundbreaking discoveries.
Grio's Role
Twist turned to Grio developers for help writing Python scripts for their phage detection platform.
Stride Health App
Stride Health
Background
Stride Health is the leader in portable benefits for independent workers offering access to health insurance plans and easy to use tools to help people get covered and put their plans to use.
Grio's Role
In order to meet their product goals, Stride Health needed to quickly ramp up their design team. Grio designers embedded with Stride Health to keep their product design moving forward while they searched for more permanent team members.
Results
Grio designed web and mobile features for Stride Health’s consumer site, as well as tools for insurance brokers.
After our initial three month engagement ended, Grio designers were brought back a few months later to help Stride Health stay on top of their timelines and meet their goals.
Goodreads Amazon Fire App
Amazon Kindle
Background
Goodreads is the world’s largest social network for readers. Users can connect with friends to search, rate and review any book in Goodreads’ inventory of 12 Million +.
Grio's Role
Goodreads selected Grio as their partner to build and release their latest Android versions for Amazon’s Kindle Fire.
Twitter Cards
Twitter
Background
Twitter Cards make it possible for companies to use the Twitter platform to engage followers with a customizable Twitter Card. The tweets present users with a ‘choose your own adventure’ style experience.
Grio's Role
Grio developed iterations of the Twitter Card for multiple brands.
Stitcher Android App
Stitcher
Background
Stitcher’s innovative radio service specializes in podcast distribution. When it came time to develop the next version of their award-winning app, they needed to quickly expand their team.
Grio's Role
Grio helped Stitcher scale up their team during the build phase of the project. Grio’s mobile development team collaborated with Stitcher to build version 2.0 of the Stitcher Android app.
Premise iOS & Android Apps
Premise Data
Background
Premise is a data and analytics platform that empowers its users through a global network of on-the-ground contributors, industry-leading data science, and machine learning.
Grio's Role
Grio worked closely with the Premise team to design and develop an upgraded version of their iOS and Android apps, focusing on creating experiences that make it easier for users to navigate directly to tasks that they’re best suited to perform.
Results
Grio acted as Premise’s sole design team and undertook a major effort to bring their iOS and Android apps to parity.
Our design work included conducting comparative design audits, creating user flows and new designs, and assembling asset libraries for both iOS and Android.
All of this design work contributed to a smooth developer hand-off, easy access to assets for both Grio and Premise developers, and a successful launch in the app stores.
Pyvott Flutter App
Pyvott
Background
Pyvott is a new social media app that puts users, not the algorithm, in control of what they see. Pyvott focusses on privacy, personalization, content, and customized control.
Grio's Role
The Pyvott team entirely outsourced product management, design and development to Grio, leveraging Grio’s expertise from the very beginning of their app definition. The Grio team was brought on board to define, design, and build the MVP version of the Pyvott application.
Results
Grio project managers and designers engaged deeply with the Pyvott team, collaborating on everything from initial product research and definition, through user research, design, development and release.
Grio developers built Pyvott as a hybrid iOS & Android application in Flutter due to its fast development time. Grio also handled full stack development of the Pyvott backend server.
Percept iOS & Android Apps
Percept Corporation
Background
Percept was founded in 2013 with a goal of advancing human vision, perception, and performance through technology. Percept came to Grio for help developing the MVP versions of their iOS and Android applications.
Grio's Role
Grio designed and developed the iOS and Android applications from the ground up, working with the Percept team to understand their business goals and propose a solution that would be a companion to the Percept wearable device.
Results
Percept’s initial public offering, MiWear, launched in Q1 2023. Some of Grio’s most impactful contributions to date include: providing full stack development for apps for both consumers and eye care professionals, defining the Bluetooth specification that allows the app to communicate with the wearable device, and designing a beautiful and intuitive application for gathering feedback from wearable device users.
Otter App
AISense
Background
Days before the launch of their new meeting recording app, Otter, AISense pivoted to a tiered revenue model.
Grio's Role
Leveraging Grio’s design team, new messaging and payment flows for the in- app-purchases were designed for both mobile and desktop versions of the Otter app.
Results
These and other improvements were delivered in time for their team to include them in the early beta release to journalists. AISense was able to launch Otter on time and has been receiving great reviews.
IronSheepdog App
IronSheepdog
Background
IronSheepdog builds a set of tools, including a mobile application, that help managers of trucking fleets manage truck movement.
Grio's Role
IronSheepdog had an existing React Native application, but they didn’t have an in-house resource to work on it. They turned to Grio to help with application maintenance and building out new features.
Results
Grio developers implemented crash reporting via Crashlytics and Bugsnag and started fixing crashes.
Additionally we refactored features for a much improved user experience.
Omniquo Marketing Site
Omniquo
Background
Omniquo provides an artificial intelligence software suite that powers the functions of Sales, Marketing, Service and transactional workflow.
Grio's Role
Grio worked on several projects with Omniquo over the summer of 2016. We developed a new identity including logo, typography, color and iconography and designed three marketing sites.
Miansai Product Configurator
Miansai
Background
Miansai creates fine jewelry and statement pieces for the everyday, modern minimalist.
Grio's Role
Miansai turned to Grio to design and build a unique product configurator that could be added to their existing Shopify site.
Results
The configurator lets shoppers create their own custom jewelry by dragging and dropping products onto an HTML Canvas, move and reorder the products, as well as navigate between product images by swiping left and right.
Grio build the product configurator as a React-based Shopify plugin.
The configurator also tracks price and availability information so shoppers can quickly move to checkout when their creation is complete.
LodgeLink Mobile App
LodgeLink
Background
LodgeLink provides lodging and transportation to large groups of workers, often in remote environments.
They’re known for their ease of use, convenience, and customer service.
Grio's Role
LodgeLink was able to accommodate their growing mobile user base by offering a quick and seamless solution to their users’ needs. Users reported an dramatic increase in convenience when managing their bookings remotely. LodgeLink obtained valuable data on user behavior, gaining insights on when and how their users were engaging with their platform.
Results
LodgeLink wanted to capitalize on a trend they noticed their users taking towards mobile but didn’t have mobile development experience in-house.
Grio provided mobile software development for their first iOS and Android offerings.
Officewise Web Application
Officewise
Background
Officewise provides a cloud-based, back- office web application that simplifies the management of Purchase Orders, Invoices, and Inventory. Paperwork is eliminated!
Grio's Role
Grio worked with Officewise to design a new identity which included a logo and the design and development of a new responsive marketing site.
Results
Officewise returned to Grio to design the client-facing portion of their product. We worked with them to iterate on dashboard designs and the complex forms that are required for inventory management. Grio and Officewise decided to leverage data visualization libraries for the dashboard in order to maximize flexibility and usability.
CatalogIt App
CatalogIt
Background
The founders at CatalogIt had a fantastic idea for a new application to help small museums and personal collectors. With their new application built, CatalogIt needed a brand identity and website to market it.
Grio's Role
Our collaboration with CatalogIt delivered a new logo and website. CatalogIt has received glowing praise for the application, logo and website.
Ambassador App
Moran Group
Background
Ambassador provides non-profits a modern, digital way to solicit donations and signatures for petitions. The app gamifies the advocate experience, motivating and encouraging users to support a cause and seek out others to take action with them.
Grio's Role
Grio designed Ambassador from the ground up, producing detailed UI/UX wireframes and high fidelity design mockups.
Results
Our collaboration with the client produced a result that considered ease of use, scannability, delightful interaction, and pleasing visual design.
Grio developed a prototype which succeeded in unlocking funding and the client returned to us to fully develop an MVP for their first release.
iPracticeBuilder iOS & Android Apps
iPracticeBuilder
Background
iPracticeBuilder allows coaches to build, store, and share sports practice plans.
Grio's Role
Grio redesigned the app’s most essential screens and provided UI/UX design solutions for a more user friendly interface with a consistent, sleek, and fun visual design. Grio also designed and developed iPracticeBuilder’s responsive website.
ArmorBlox
ArmorBlox
Background
Armorblox is a cybersecurity firm preparing to launch their first product. They needed a design partner to help them develop and refine their product interface while they were in stealth mode.
Grio's Role
Through a series of week-long design sprints over several weeks, Grio produced a design guide (style tile), finalized screens, and developer-ready assets. Grio placed a focus on improving overall usability of the service, including revising the dashboard components to be easily readable at a glance.
Results
In February 2019, Armorblox emerged from stealth mode and raised $16.5 million of series A funding from General Catalyst.
Armorblox is a leading voice in cybersecurity with their innovative use of AI and NLP. Grio helped design the interface that reports what the system has learned regarding potential threats.
C3 Pathfinder App
C3 Pathfinder
Background
C3 Pathfinder is a data discovery tool for states, career counselors, and eventually students. The tool outlines specific skills and links them together so that a student/participant can see how their skills can be built upon to earn related, stackable skills that will transition to higher-skilled, higher paying jobs (the “pathway”).
Grio's Role
The Grio team was brought on board to build out the MVP version of the application, to be deployed across Alabama community colleges. After defining product requirements, we built the initial iteration of the app as a React plugin with a Wordpress backend.
Results
Grio’s contributions have allowed C3 Pathfinder to start rolling out the application throughout the Alabama Community College system, with an ultimate goal of expanding nationwide.
C3 Pathfinder now has an MVP that college administrators can use in the field and give feedback on, and a robust platform for future growth.
Embroker Web Forms
Embroker
Background
Embroker is creating the modern solution for Business Insurance by providing a secure online platform to fill out business policies instead of the traditional paper way.
Grio's Role
Grio designers created a dashboard for users to easily access their forms and track progress. Form design best practices were applied to each set of forms to maximize speed and efficiency.
Results
Embroker came to Grio in search of a UX expert to improve the user experience of filling out their extensive set of forms.
Elemeno Application Redesign
Elemeno Health
Background
The Elemeno Health app enables nurses and other hospital staff to easily access and disseminate standard operating procedures within hospital organizations.
Grio's Role
The redesign improved user experience throughout the application via a dramatically cleaned up and streamlined design. Elemeno users are now able to find the information they need quickly and efficiently. The new design will also scale to accommodate a new data architecture planned for a future rollout.
Results
Elemeno had previously released a working product that they needed to take to the next level. To get there, they partnered with Grio to do a visual and UX redesign of their product, along with frontend development work for the core screens and flows.
Enspectra Tablet App
Enspectra Health
Background
Enspectra Health is pioneering virtual biopsies. The Grio team was tasked with building a tablet application for their non-invasive skin biopsy solution.
Grio's Role
The completed tablet app enabled Enspectra to pass their initial clinical trial as well as numerous testing phases. Grio’s contributions have moved Enspectra closer to their ultimate goal of FDA approval and adoption in the dermatology medical field.
Results
The goal was to create an easy-to-use product, allowing a clinician to capture and review images on a tablet while scanning the Enspectra wand over the patient’s skin.
iCoin iOS & Android Apps
iCoin
Background
The iCoin Wallet System is an Air Gap digital wallet for Bitcoin and Ethereum. The wallet uses a rear-facing camera to read and import the blockchain data required to create a transaction.
Grio's Role
Grio provided iOS and Android development for apps for consumer applications as well as architecting the blockchain communications between the apps and the hardware wallet.
The iCoin Wallet System was released in 2022, and was named Best Bitcoin Hardware Wallet in 2023 by BraveNewCoin.
Results
Grio developed iOS and Android companion applications that pair with the hardware wallet, as well as a backend server that connects to crypto exchanges to check transactions and price fluctuations.
Lend for Peace Website
Lend for Peace
Grio's Role
Grio built the Lend for Peace website, which allows donors to lend money to impoverished families and communities in the Middle East.
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