This major redesign and reorganization of the popular Wildlife Illinois website was released in March 2024. Designed by Gretchen Wieshuber and re-architected by Gretchen and our colleague Laura Kammin, this new version sports a lively new responsive design, reorganized site map and streamlined navigation. Wildlife Illinois has a long history, originally conceived at University of […]

Hunt Illinois is an online resource for Illinois residents and visitors interested in hunting in the Land of Lincoln. The website includes information on Illinois hunting seasons, licenses and permits, regulations, safety, wildlife management, and conservation programs. Specialized tools like the Hunt Planner, License Finder, and Harvest Data Reports help hunters plan hunting opportunities.

CyberTalent Passport is a unique digital wallet which expresses cybersecurity talent capability in a portable, interoperable format, friendly to both humans and machine systems. Originally developed as a subsystem of CyberTalent Bridge, the Passport is a valuable a tool for any learner or organization to share flexible, machine readable and computable talent data. CyberTalent Passport […]

WILD (Wildlife Illinois Login Directory) is multi-purpose portal to provide services to customers of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division. The first of these services is an new online system to manage Nuisance Animal Removal Permits, which is the subject of our blog post Nuiscance Animal Removal Permits for Illinois.    

The CyberTalent Bridge™ is a cybersecurity workforce management tool for organizations to better understand the cybersecurity talent available in their workforce, and how workers can be assigned, trained, and hired to reduce cybersecurity risk.

CICADA (Conservation Inclusive Construction and Development Archive) is a new website created for the IDNR to help residents and businesses manage and integrate wildlife habitats into their property and projects.

Outdoor Illinois Journal is an online magazine featuring seasonally based stories about the state’s fish and wildlife resources and related recreational activities, including hunting, trapping, fishing and wildlife watching and photography, and places to recreate in Illinois. 2wav developed Outdoor Illinois Journal with our NuxtPress application stack. In 2023, we undertook a redesign and upgrade […]

Some disasters can’t be avoided, but preparation can help businesses bounce back. In the era of COVID-19, many businesses are feeling the strain from closures, supply chain disruptions, and much more. It may even feel like fumbling in the dark trying to find a solid plan to keep a business afloat.

Sometimes we get down to where the code meets the hardware, and this project is a good example of our low level chops. This little app for iOS and Android, finds a Systech gateway with Bluetooth, and connects it to a WiFi network. Seems simple, but sorting out the idiosyncrasies of Bluetooth on iOS, Android and Linux was quite an undertaking. As always, user experience was foremost. Our goal was to make it so easy, even our moms could use it!

Of the many projects we have done for MarketMaker, the search tool is probably the greatest technical accomplishment. MarketMaker visitors can search geographically for hundreds of products from over a million businesses, filtered by hundreds of attributes. Precise area selections can be overlayed with census and demographic heatmaps, helping businesses to identify potential markets or find needed suppliers.

SysSCRIPT is an enterprise-scale Internet of Things control system, the product of our longstanding relationship with Systech Corporation. SysSCRIPT is the technology underlying Systech’s Connected Health products, as well as diverse applications like tank monitoring and refrigeration control.

What’s in Season is a location-aware app to help consumers find fresh, local produce. One of our many partnerships with Market Maker, the application uses their nationwide database of businesses and farmers’ markets, putting fresh food on plates nationwide.

All in One Place is a web app that allows users to keep track of everything in their homes. We developed the user experience, the design, and the ontology that makes this app infinitely extensible. Users can add their own descriptions and properties that later become part of the master ontology.

Ten years ago, 2wav developed the Newspaper and Yearbook Archive for the Allerton Public Library in Monticello, IL. We are proud that this simple, functional tool is still serving citizens today. The archive contains over a hundred years of newspapers, yearbooks and other documents, in a specialized PDF format from HF Group which overlays high […]