Free Expression Award

“We engaged Balance Studios because we were struggling with a museum interactive with an old public interface and back-end database that was becoming impossible to update and we needed to make some major updates because we were overhauling the exhibit content that the interactive supports.

Balance Studios helped with this project by reimagining both the public interface and the backend CMS. The result was an incredibly user friendly, both for the museum visitor exploring our content and the staff entering data. Not only is the Historic Newspaper Interactive easy to use, it is also beautiful; we were particularly pleased with the way it draws from the colors and design of the larger gallery design to become a cohesive part of the overall space.

The experience was so satisfying that just a few months after this project was completed we decided to work with Balance Studios again on another kiosk project that provides visitors with an entirely different front end experience. Balance Studios was able to repurpose the CMS they had just built to power a new kind of kiosk with an entirely different purpose and design. It was incredibly valuable that the staff didn’t need to learn and entirely new system and still got a great new product.

We would recommend Balance Studio to people who need creative solutions to content management problems…and are hoping to accomplish it in an user-friendly way with an engaged and supportive team.”

~Carrie Christoffersen, Executive Director and Curator, Newseum