Designing for Mobile First

The Exploratorium is an immersive science, technology and art museum in San Francisco, CA. Its website, exploratorium.edu, dates back to the dawn of the internet. Registered in 1992 and launched in 1993, this domain was one of the first sites on the internet, years before Google and Wikipedia made an entrance. 

With a portfolio that spans 26 award-winning brands and 150+ global destinations, Travelopia provides unique, custom-designed travel experiences. Each year, the company serves over half a million guests embarking on bespoke vacations of their dreams, from polar expeditions to wildlife safaris.  

Tableau Software is an analytics and business intelligence solution that helps over 32,000 customers see and understand their data in visually compelling ways. 

The company had just launched Tableau Public, a free service that enabled anyone to create and share data visualizations online. This was a groundbreaking service, but it required a lot of infrastructure and operational resources.

O2E stands for Ordinary to Exceptional: the company takes ordinary home services and turns them into exceptional experiences. O2E Brands first began in 1989 when Brian Scudamore invested $700 in an old pickup truck to start a junk removal business. Today, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? has 160 franchises across North America and Australia and recorded over $400 million in system-wide revenue in 2020. This brand also led Scudamore to two new brands, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING and Shack Shine.

The Patch.com product—quality hyperlocal content across 915 communities and growing—presents demanding challenges, including those related to management and scale. Patch often publishes over 1,000 articles per day. 12,000 URLs are accessed via the Patch site at any given time within the last 10 minutes. Pantheon helps Patch tackle these challenges while mitigating risk, supporting flexible development, and guaranteeing uptime—without forcing Patch to maintain large, complex infrastructure.

Since 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has worked to defend individual freedom. The organization’s flagship website, aclu.org, plays a vital role in fundraising and keeping the public informed.