At Insight, we’re all about flexibility. Whether it’s practicing yoga at lunch or taking a day off from business to ride the Courage Classic, we believe that life is more enjoyable when you allow yourself to stretch to fit in the things that you think are important. And we take that same approach to web design, where we’ve been incorporating responsive design to keep sites looking snazzy as well as flexible. We ask a lot of websites nowadays. We want them to look good on a 60” TV monitor as well as a smartphone. But we all know that these displays are sized at opposite ends of the spectrum, an ..read more

The Insight Designs crew is doing the 155-mile Courage Classic bike ride to raise money for the Colorado Children’s Hospital Foundation again this summer. Last year, our team – A Cure Insight – raised more than $50,000 for the hospital’s pediatric oncology department thanks in great part to the generous support of our clients, friends and family. This year, Insight Designs is offering to match all client donations 2-to-1 (up to $10,000). If a client gives $50, we’ll give $100 on their behalf. If they give $100, we’ll give $200. And so on. If you’d like to give, go to: http://couragetours.com/2 ..read more

Fourteen. Not much interesting about that number – except that Insight Designs is celebrating our 14th birthday this month. That’s right. Way back in March 1999, we started making custom websites and web applications. The industry has changed a lot since then. Can you say mobile? Can you say native app? Can you say WordPress, Magento, Drupal, plugin, extension? But we still love what we do: Helping clients find the most effective ways to communicate with their customers, members, investors and donors. Creating intuitive, easy-to-use applications and interfaces. Building relationships. And maki ..read more

A Place At The Table, an award-winning documentary film created by Insight Designs client Catalyst Films, opens in theaters across the US today, including Denver’s Landmark Mayan at 110 Broadway. It’s also available on iTunes and On Demand. Don’t miss it! The feature-length film examines the shocking paradox of hunger in the wealthiest nation on earth. Despite our country having the means to provide affordable, nutritious food for all Americans, one in four children, or 50 million Americans, don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and often when that meal does come, it’s filled with ..read more

We at Insight Designs were quite bummed that Chasing Ice – an amazing documentary film that includes hauntingly beautiful videos of vanishing mountains of ice – didn’t make the final cut for an Oscar nominee for Documentary Feature. But we are thrilled that the film, which YOU SHOULD SEE IF YOU HAVEN’T YET, is still in the Oscar mix. It’s an Academy Award Nominee for Best Original Song. Click here to listen to “Before My Time” by J. Ralph featuring the unique voice of Scarlett Johansson and the gorgeous violin of Joshua Bell. Chasing Ice is still playing nationwide. Click here for a complete l ..read more

I swear, the Insight Designs holiday party just keeps getting better every year. We hosted our 13th annual feat earlier this month at our Boulder offices with the lights of Pearl Street twinkling through the windows. About 140 guests joined us for fabulous food (the crab cakes were to die for), lively libations, silly hats and all. You can see some of the fun here. Each year, we love taking the opportunity to promote the products and services of our awesome clients in a prize giveaway. This year, instead of interrupting the party buzz to award prizes, we did the drawing afterward.  ..read more

So excited to share the news that one of Insight Designs‘ clients – JumpinJazz Kids – has been nominated for a Grammy! JumpinJazz Kids is a unique line of children’s music that combines narrative storytelling with fun, pop-influenced jazz songs performed by world-renowned jazz artists, a jazz quintet and a full symphony orchestra. The stories follow the imaginative adventures of 7-year-old Claire and her stuffed animal friends. “A Swinging Jungle Tale,” the first title in the JumpinJazz series, has been selected as one of 5 nominees — out of 117 entrants — in the Best Children’s Album Category ..read more

Kudos to our friends at ThisLife.com for being a Silver Winner in the 7th Annual W3 Awards. The awards, judged and sanctioned by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, honor outstanding work for web and mobile. Insight Designs started working with ThisLife founders Matt and Andrea Johnson in February 2010 to create their cloud-based service that organizes and archives users’ photos and videos. Insight partner Nico Toutenhoofd led a crew of Insight programmers to develop ThisLife’s API cloud infrastructure, including everything from video processing and face recognition to social media i ..read more

Sometimes we get to work on something uber cool. This is one of those times. Last week, we launched a new website for Chasing Ice, an award-winning documentary film that tells the story of National Geographic photographer James Balog’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of the Earth’s changing climate. Balog and a band of young adventurers deployed revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s disappearing glaciers. The film — filled with hauntingly beautiful videos that compress years into seconds an ..read more