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Quality assurance in web development is about testing systems — checking whether the things we've built stand up to the use cases they were designed to solve. But this makes the assumption that use cases are systematic; sometimes, the issues we face are not systematic. Sometimes, the issues are humans.

Development  |  Project Management

Site search can be a smarter keyword tool or a full chatbot. A guide to the AI search spectrum and how to pick the right fit for your site.

AI  |  Development

One site, many audiences — from solo architects to enterprise IT directors. See how Blend led the strategy, design, and Optimizely build for a new deltek.com.

Commercial Services  |  Technology  |  Design and Front-End  |  Development  |  Discovery and Scoping  |  Optimizely

Spinning up templates for new content types takes time. Here's a proof-of-concept that uses Optimizely Opal to make it faster and safer.

AI  |  Development  |  Optimizely

Upgrading from Optimizely CMS 12 to CMS 13 takes more than an updated NuGet package. Here's what to check before you start.

Development  |  Optimizely

Western Equipment Finance brought Blend in after a successful Western State Bank implementation to rebuild their site from the ground up — new information architecture, filterable inventory, and purpose-built sales landing pages, all on Umbraco.

Financial Services  |  Design and Front-End  |  Development  |  Discovery and Scoping  |  Umbraco

Blend replaced a legacy search tool on bonanza.org with Azure AI Search, adding content weighting, model-based filtering, and verified answers for ABS members.

Associations  |  AI  |  Content and IA  |  Development  |  Optimizely

After upgrading two Blend Optimizely add-ons to CMS 13 compatibility, Bob Davidson shares the three takeaways — including the new Application system, async content area filtering, and tag helper-based platform navigation.

Development  |  Optimizely

Learn how data orchestration helps associations avoid costly website rebuilds by decoupling content sources from the CMS — so switching tools doesn't mean starting over.

Associations  |  Development  |  Strategy

When we search for something on the web, we’re not looking for “results.” When we’re looking for the nearest children’s hospital, or the nearest credit union, we often think we’re looking for a list of options — a list of results — but that’s not really what we want. We don’t want more decisions. We don’t want randomly associated web pages.

AI  |  Development