Campaign Supernova

Imagine a distant utopian future where you can devise layouts, manage assets and the approvals process for your emails all via a single UI.

A while ago I started delving into the web application framework Angular and google’s database Firebase. What did I learn?

Learning a framework while it’s still in beta stage is a great way not to learn a framework. The other outcome has been a slowly evolving beast that currently goes by the name Campaign Supernova...

It’s a web app for devising and briefing layouts for email templates; storing and editing assets; and getting layouts and assets reviewed and approved.

Initially I wanted to create a glorified UI to assemble data for custom publishing specifically when tapping into the task runner gulp to help generate templates.

What began as a small scale learning project evolved into a vehicle to explore solving some of the issues I have encountered with the briefing and approvals process within and between businesses.

Never Pants

I’m aware there are a lot of project management tools and agile workhorses out there from Trello to JIRA.

The focus of this app was more towards scenarios I’ve experienced when dealing with high turn around email campaigns and development, interacting either directly with client(s) or between organisations. This would be things like exchanging briefs (often excel, mainly digital, rarely paper, never pants) wireframes; asset management; a world of excel docs and zipped files, servers and email chains.

Some ESP’s already incorporate some of the features like automatic text encoding for email text but hopefully there’s some new ideas in terms of aiding workflow.

If you’re not on twitter or watching Game of Thrones you can try it out.