Ripple

We make software that sends a Ripple through your business

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We rebuilt the 1000 Springs Project's public site: a decade-old science database, redesigned as an open field guide with a live explorer for 792 New Zealand geothermal springs.

The rebuilt 1000 Springs website: a full-width geothermal spring photo, clear stats, browse-by-system chips and an audience guide

A science database, rebuilt as a field guide.

The science was remarkable; the site around it was built for the web of a decade ago and quietly undersold it. We kept every record and rebuilt everything around them: a field guide written plainly for tourists, students and researchers alike, safety kept front and centre on every page, and a proper mobile layout. Then we gave the data a real interactive explorer.

  • 792 spring records across 12 geothermal systems, open to everyone, no account needed
  • A live pH-versus-temperature explorer you can recolour and filter by analyte, temperature and pH
  • A searchable list and a clustered satellite map of the Taupo Volcanic Zone
  • Every spring links back to its source measurements, chemistry and microbial taxonomy

Built by Ripple using the 1000 Springs Project's openly licensed data (GNS Science and the University of Waikato, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

The 1000 Springs data explorer: a pH versus temperature scatter plot of 792 springs, colour-coded by geothermal system
The explorer opens on the whole dataset: pH against temperature, every spring, coloured by system.
The original 1000 Springs homepage: a desktop-era layout with icon navigation and low-contrast text over a dark photo
Where it started: the right science on a site from another era of the web.
About

A small studio with one simple idea.

We are an independent software studio in Ōtautahi Christchurch. We are small, and we like it that way. It means careful work for the people running the businesses that make the world go round.

We pick up the slack on anything software: the websites, apps, and internal tools that keep the wheels turning, or make them turn a little better.

A hand-drawn map of New Zealand, with the Ripple ring marking Christchurch, where Ripple is based
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Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand
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