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Oct 21, 2019

Who Are The Best Mobile App Developers in Chicago?

Mobile App Daily was kind enough to include Bright Bright Great in their list Best Mobile App Developers in Chicago 2019.

From Mobile App Daily

The report features leading names in the mobile app industry who have made themselves known for their application development services. With key factors like client testimonials, work quality, and more, we are here to help make the final decision.

Best Mobile App Developers in Chicago 2019

Spread the Word

It’s hard to find a needle in a haystack. But even harder to feature on MobileAppDaily. For us, the doors to this opportunity opened the moment word spread of our enviable standards in digital service delivery. 

Our foundational ethos – to offer end-to-end business administration services from brand strategy to front end development & campaign management, positions us on a unique pedestal. It is for this reason, BBG offices have played host to partners, keen to join hands with a vibrant team unfazed by challenges. 

Yes, it’s a tough task of anyone to pin-point a single universal selling point from our array of services, given the ambit of accomplishments at Big Bright Great. Yet, expert opinion of MobileAppDaily has put their verdict on our development services via this report on the Best Mobile App Developers in Chicago in 2019.

While we are happy to share the podium with equally celebrated firms, the fact that a publication of the stature of MobileAppDaily took interest in us, is laudable. To put it more eloquently, we’d be part of a section that runs annual analysis on the creme de la creme of mobile application developers. 

But that’s just the tip. 

Detailed app reviews, the latest news which is doing the rounds and success stories of high-achievers, make up the body of work that firms like ourselves would happily contest for. 

For reasons mentioned here, and the ones we can’t put in words due to being humbled, we have this to say:

“It is our promise to all prospective B2B & B2C clients that if this is the reward of putting ourselves through the grind, you’d bet we have 100,000% more to offer” 

Posted By
Jason Schwartz
Sep 06, 2019

BBG is Hiring a Full-Stack Web Developer

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Bright Bright Great is a strategic digital brand agency. We create world-class brands and meaningful, inclusive experiences that delight, engage, and deliver value to all users. Since 2007, we’ve partnered with clients large and small across education, finance, retail, fashion, food and beverage, and travel.

We are looking for an experienced web developer who takes pride in their work and strives to create clean and simple code. You’ll be working closely with our development team, our design team, and clients to solve problems and create effective solutions to meet both user experience and business goals.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Building beautiful and accessible websites and interfaces with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and PHP
  • Maintaining and improving front-end code bases across a variety of client websites
  • Collaborating with designers to create engaging and delightful digital solutions that meet client and user needs
  • Communicate with clients throughout the entire project, from kickoff through launch
  • Contribute to our team culture through code reviews, contributing ideas, improving processes, and giving and receiving constructive feedback

Essential Qualifications

  • PHP (WordPress and/or Laravel)
  • HTML
  • SCSS/CSS
  • Javascript (Vue, Angular, React, etc)
  • Experience with Git
  • Understand basics of SEO optimization
  • Familiarity with webpack
  • Experience developing responsive websites
  • At least one year of experience in front-end development

It’s a bonus if you have:

  • Experience with WCAG
  • Experience with ecommerce, including Shopify
  • Experience with with any of the following: WooCommerce, Shopify, Salesforce, MailChimp, Pardot, Hubspot, CraftCMS
  • Email development experience
  • Web Hosting experience

The ideal candidate is:

  • Detail oriented
  • Thoughtful
  • Personable
  • Optimistic
  • A problem solver
  • A clear communicator
  • Passionate and motivated to learn
  • Works well in a team
  • Works well on multiple projects at the same time
  • Works well in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment

To apply send an email with your resume, Git link, relevant sites that you have lead the development on and salary requirements to: careers@brightbrightgreat.com.

BBG is an equal opportunity employer. No recruiters please.

Posted By
Jason Schwartz
Aug 23, 2019

Equilibria Featured in Crain’s Chicago Business

Equilibria Crains Chicago Business

The BBG team would like to extend a major shout-out to the Equilibria team on their 2019 progress as they mature from concept to major contender.

Equilibria is now poised to take a sizable chunk of the CBD tech space as they tighten focus, introduce new strategy and expand their line-up of product.

Read the full article at Crain’s Chicago Business.

CBD is No Joke

As the CBD space explodes at a rate of 7x in 2019 commercial attention has been focused on marijuana, as states such as Illinois and Michigan have legalized recreational use. But hemp is a bigger market with fewer barriers to entry, making it attractive to startups and established companies alike.

BBG has had an ongoing relationship with both Marcy Capron Vermillion and Coco Meers from previous business offerings and have been working with Equilibria since 2018.

Learn more about Equilibria’s offering on their website.

Posted By
Jason Schwartz
Jul 26, 2019

Bright Bright Great Named TechReviewer Top 40 2019 Web Design Companies

Bright Bright Great Ranked #16 Among Top 40 Web Design Companies

If you are looking for the best place for website designing and developing, or a complete online brand positioning, then Bright Bright Great is the one stop solution for all your needs.

Today, web design, UX/UI has taken a significant role in marketing and web promotion of a company. There are different web designing companies who can help you in every step of online promotion and let your company hold a space worldwide.

Talking about the web designing companies, Bright Bright Great is one of the prominent names in the market that has 12 years of experience in this genre. The company has been recognized by a research & analytics agency TechReviewer.co as a Top Web design company. Bright Bright Great holds respectable position in offering world-class services to the clients based worldwide. Owing to the excellent team of professionals, the company has been able to different customized software solutions for their clients.

At nibble software services like web designing, web hosting, SEO, Digital marketing, Mobile application development and SMM services are offered. The forte of the organization is that they never compromise with quailities and this is why within this short span of time Bright Bright Great has been able to count a huge client base in its list.

The professionals work on the mission that is to solve the query of the customer’s and ensure that all the needs are duly meet with. They are 24/7 ready to assist you in every possible manner and make sure that all your queries are solved within time.

About TechReviewer.co

TechReviewer is a research & analytics team founded in 2019 that carries out studies and compiles the lists of the leading software development companies in various categories based on the market research and the analysis of reviews.

Techreviewer helps to connect the business and find optimal vendors that meet the high requirements for providing quality services.

Top Web Design Companies 2019

View Other Bright Bright Great Awards & Recognition

Posted By
Jason Schwartz
Jul 01, 2019

BBG is Hiring a Web Developer

Web Developer WantedBBG is looking for an experienced web developer who takes pride in their work and strives to create clean and simple code. You’ll be working closely with our development team, our design team, and clients to solve problems and create effective solutions to meet both user experience and business goals.

Requirements:

At least 2 years of web development experience
Experience creating websites using:
PHP (WordPress and/or Laravel)
HTML
SCSS/CSS
Javascript (Vue, Angular, React, etc)
Experience with Git
Understand basics of SEO optimization
Familiarity with webpack

Bonus:

Experience with WCAG
Experience with with any of the following: WooCommerce, Shopify, Salesforce, MailChiimp, Pardot, Hubspot, CraftCMS
Email development
Web Hosting

About You:

Clear Communicator
Detail Oriented
Thoughtful
Personable
Optimistic
Problem Solver
Client Facing Communication
Desire to Learn and Push Self

About Bright Bright Great:

BBG is looking for an experienced web developer who takes pride in their work and strives to create clean and simple code. You’ll be working closely alongside our development team, our design team, and clients to solve problems and create effective solutions to meet both user experience and business goals.

To apply, please send the following to careers@brightbrightgreat.com:

Resume
Brief introduction to yourself
Why you would like to work at Bright Bright Great
Links to past work, github

No recruiters. BBG is an equal opportunity employer.

Posted By
Jason Schwartz
Jun 17, 2019

6 Top WordPress Designers Share Their Keys to Success

Running a successful WordPress agency is no easy task. The landscape changes quickly and what worked yesterday may not be the best practice today. As you will see, some things change, but many things will always stay the same.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing six of the most successful WordPress agencies in North America to understand what makes them great.

Read the full article on AccessWP by Anthony Tran.

Jason Schwartz, Bright Bright Great

Jason is a self-confessed process nerd. He is always watching both business operations and processes looking for ways to improve.

What is your biggest tip for running a successful agency?

“New tools and products come out every week that making it easier for both our internal team and our partners to communicate. Always being open to test and potentially change our tools is important.”

How do you make sure your customers are happy?

“This is something that is really important to us. Happy customers mean both referrals and repeat projects. We put everything we have, heart and soul into all projects to push beyond what is expected. Clients are typically not designers, developers, UX specialists, so when I hear from them that we went beyond anything they could have dreamed up, that’s a win.

What makes Bright Bright Great special in the market?

“We have our own in-house type foundry called Avondale Type Co. We can design and license unique typefaces to global brands.”

Key Takeaways

  • People: Taking on the right clients and hiring talented team members.
  • Process: Having an efficient and effective process that you always look to improve.
  • Products: Providing great service and going the extra mile.
Posted By
Jason Schwartz
May 01, 2019

New Work: Strong Analytics

Strong Analytics Website

Bright Bright Great recently created new brand identity and website for Strong Analytics. Strong is a leading data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence consultancy. They help companies build and deploy custom end-to-end machine learning and utilize artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.

Strong Analytics Web Pages

Strong Analytics Business Card Design

 

Strong Analytics Branding Elements

 

Strong Analytics Mobile Design UI Strong Analytics Illustrations

About The Project:

Since 2016, Strong Analytics has grown to an elite team of PhD-level data scientists. Strong is trusted by top brands including Mercedes-Benz, H&M and Dictionary.com. They lacked a cohesive brand language and strategy appropriate for their level of expertise. BBG developed a robust brand, including a custom word mark, marketing materials, and new digital experience.

Strong Analytics Web Modules

About Strong:

Strong is a one-stop shop for designing, building, and deploying custom data science and machine learning solutions.

View All New BBG Work

Posted By
Jason Schwartz
Mar 18, 2019

New Work: Equilibria, Custom CBD Routines

Bright Bright Great is excited to have worked with Equilibria, custom routines of premium CBD — from farm to home — with a dosage concierge on call.

BBG handled updated branding, packaging and photography as well as propose new digital strategy for the Equilibria team.

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About CBD:

Cannabidiol (CBD) is a naturally occurring compound found in the resinous flower of cannabis, a plant with a rich history as a medicine going back thousands of years. Today the therapeutic properties of CBD are being tested and confirmed by scientists and doctors around the world. A safe, non-addictive substance, CBD is one of more than a hundred “phytocannabinoids,” which are unique to cannabis and endow the plant with its robust therapeutic profile.

From Equilibria:

Industrial hemp is a cannabis sativa plant grown specifically to exhibit 0.3% THC content or less — this is why there’s no discernible intoxicating effect, but also why it’s legal. Any industrial hemp plants that cross the 0.3% line in the sand become marijuana plants, federally illegal, and (after approximately the 10% THC mark) psychoactive/intoxicating.

With our industrial hemp-grown CBD, you get a huge portion of the clinically-observed benefit of medical cannabis plants, with none of the illegality or impairment. Equilibria’s CBD is farm-to-home, at the highest quality available in the US market (straight from our 1,100 acre farm in Colorado!). All of our products are lab-tested with results readily available.

New Work

Posted By
Jason Schwartz
Feb 06, 2019

Where Did The Name Bright Bright Great Come From?

We regularly get asked where the name Bright Bright Great came from, so we finally want to share that story.

What Was the Process?

First and foremost, we wanted a unique name that conveyed our personality. Prior to formally starting the company, we took a few days to brainstorm names, ultimately coming up with something like 10 pages of double-sided notebook paper worth. Names ranged from pretty crazy, to expected.

From there we whittled down the list to 1 side of 1 page of paper and did some web diligence. Was the name in use? How open were social handles? How open was the internet for the name.

Ultimately it came down to about 5 potential names, some better than others, but with huge digital opportunity. Although that list has been packed away (*it will be found someday) 2 of the names on that list were KILO and April O’Neill. KILO always represented the weight of a design project and the impact it can have. April O’Neill was a throwback to our favorite cartoon tv reporter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The interesting thing about both of these names was that KILO was almost impossible to gain internet space with and we uncovered that not only was April O’Neill a TMNT throwback name, it was also an adult film star, a special part of the web that we could never compete with from an SEO standpoint, but also we didn’t want potential clients having to go through to find us.

We chose the best name, Bright Bright Great.

Bright. Bright as in intelligence. It has always been a paramount personality attribute of our brand to craft smart solutions for all projects we work on. Design by definition is problem solving. Our goal is to always think about the problem and solution for all creative projects.

Bright. Bright as in colorful. We aren’t talking so much here about our personality, but more so the literal vibrancy of color. When we first started and Jason Schwartz was our Creative Director, neon was the name of the game.

The brighter the neon, the better. Although that has somewhat subdued over the years, we still highly value the importance of color in not only brand strategy, but also in other areas like visual accessibility and interaction design.

Great. Simply put, great work.

Did it Hold Up?

13 years later, we are still proud of these principles as they continue to encompass who Bright Bright Great is. So although the logo has changed a few times, the name holds true.

Posted By
Jason Schwartz