Activate360
Activate360
Activate360
Activate360
Activate360 by Next/Now

Next/Now is an experiential agency that specializes in creating bespoke digital content for various institutional, retail, and corporate uses. Historically, each project required a custom content management system (CMS) in order to allow clients to update the work over time.

In order to optimize project timelines and cost, we created Activate360. The product serves as a global CMS, covering the needs of 90% of projects while providing clients with a sleek modern interface and additional features over time.

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What’s a Rich Text element?

What’s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

Static and dynamic content editing

Static and dynamic content editing

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.
Resolving flexibility with simplicity
In striving for universality with our product, we were left with an incredibly complex back-end optimized for growth and flexibility. While this benefitted the product's capabilities, it was far too complex to present to the end user. To solve this, I developed a module system that grouped inputs based on specific use cases. This kept our interface clean, while still providing the user with all the necessary components when the time was right.
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