October 2023
Autumn Clean 🍂
I’m back in Thorpeness*, the summer home I spoke about last time. We have a habit of getting together twice a year to fix up the house with family. I’m not saying I’m a fan of that habit, but it’s necessary. And in that spirit, we spent the last month doing the inverse of a Spring Clean at Authentise. We now have such a range of products; this actually means a number of things:
Threads
There’s movement in our latest product, and you’ll see more (very exciting) developments there going forward. Last month, we released:
• Enhanced Notifications: Our Threads app can now notify collaborators with In-App, Email, and Desktop Push notifications. This essential step should help solidify our design engineering collaboration platform and ensure that the process remains Agile and nimble. No more lost comments!• Ownership and Completion: Users can now be assigned as Owners to Thread Events and the whole collaboration team can celebrate the Completion of a Thread!
Digital Design Warehouse
DDW was always an ugly duckling; not really a standalone product at all. No longer. It’s come into its own with a full checkout procedure, thanks to an integration with Stripe – meaning that it can not only be used by those seeking to promote and explore additive internally, but also by those who want to help external partners gain a better understanding of additive, and then use that to order products or samples.
Flows
Last but not least, our biggest product, Flows , is receiving a bit of User Experience TLC, including adding “cards” to more and more pages. We first reported this on the Printer page, and now it’s in the Orders page too. Within the Order Summary you can now see a quick snapshot of the Order’s contents by viewing the Line Item Cards. Click a card to be navigated directly to that Line Item!
In the next couple of emails, I’ll be talking about bigger projects that are underway, but it’s good to know that the team stays reactive to client feedback and manages to get the smaller things out of the way at the same time as executing on the big picture.
I’ll stay in Thorpeness and London for a few weeks but then have some busy travel ahead – including ICAM, CAMX, and Formnext . As always, you can see where our team will be here.
Cheerio,
Andre
*Now that I’ve mentioned Thorpeness twice, I should explain: It’s where my great grandparents met, and the place I spent every summer growing up. It’s one of the few places I knew in the UK until my late teens. And it’s glorious: Built by a friend of the Peter Pan author, JM Barrie, around the turn of the 19th century, it’s conceived as a Victorian Neverland, complete with Cricket, country club, boating lates and a (pebbled) beach. I thought all of England looked like this until I started school near London. It will remain my spiritual home forever, so I’ll be sure to mention it again.