The Authentic Form & Function journal discusses topics affecting and impacting the urban space as they relate to design and technology.

Since opening our doors just over five years ago, Authentic F&F has been a small web design and technology studio working across all industries on a variety of digital project types.

A few years ago we had the opportunity to begin work with a company called Greenhouse GO. The product, Carbon Planner, would change the way urban planners prepared new build projects. This summer, Stanford University acquired Carbon Planner.

One of the most important aspects of any digital project is often the most overlooked: creating a trusted and transparent partnership. Too many digital agencies and clients speed through the initial relationship building aspect of a project in a rush to get into the exciting design and development work.

We’ve built a lot of websites over the years, and in that time we’ve had the chance to work with many different technologies. From ExpressionEngine to Wordpress, we’ve worked with it all, and through everything we have settled on Craft as our go to Content Management System (CMS).

Looking back on our journey as a design studio, one of the biggest areas of growth has come in the form of our design process for client builds, but also for our own endeavours.

Part 2 of this series will address the theme of not needing to spend money on custom design and development work.