Hanson Inc. Insights: Fueling Your Next Big Idea

What 35+ Years at IBS/KBIS Taught Me About the Importance of Showing Up

After 35+ years at IBS/KBIS, Steve Hanson shares how trade shows, digital transformation, and the power of showing up continue to shape the building products industry.

After 35+ years at IBS/KBIS, Steve Hanson shares how trade shows, digital transformation, and the power of showing up continue to shape the building products industry.

The Big Shift: How to Redesign Content-Heavy Websites Without Losing Your Mind

Struggling with a content-heavy website redesign? Discover three proven strategies—including AI-assisted migration—to simplify the process and create a better user experience.

Struggling with a content-heavy website redesign? Discover three proven strategies—including AI-assisted migration—to simplify the process and create a better user experience.

Website Redesign

Comparing 4 Types of Content Management Systems

How to choose the right CMS platform for your next website or digital experience

Compare open-source, enterprise, SaaS, and headless CMS platforms to find the right fit for your content, team, and digital strategy.

Web Development

How Codacy Helps Hanson’s Development Team Up Their Game

Learn how automated code scanning with Codacy improves security, code quality, and long‑term maintainability for modern web development.

Building Products

When Webflow Works: Breaking Barriers for Creatives, Marketers, and Developers

Discover how Webflow empowers our creatives, marketers, and developers with design freedom and seamless collaboration.

Human-Centered Innovation: How Great Lakes AI Week Is Shaping Our AI Journey

Hanson reflects on insights from Great Lakes AI Week—highlighting responsible, human-centered innovation and how AI can elevate work, creativity and value.

Digital Experience

Person using a laptop at a desk with a smartphone nearby.

How to Improve Your Website Post-Launch

Improve your site and increase engagement with these four tried-and-true site assessments and optimization strategies.

Content Marketing

Hanson’s 5 Productivity Tools for Exceptional Remote Work

Jr. Copywriter Becca Rudd highlights 5 key tools used at Hanson to increase productivity with remote work.

Digital Marketing

Content Strategy

Considerations for Planning a MarTech Stack

The ideal MarTech stack isn't one size fits all, but here are some considerations for planning a MarTech stack.

Digital Marketing

Marketing Automation

5 Questions to Solve Your Business Challenge

The insights gained from this 5-point analysis reveal the unique, measurable way you will succeed.

Want to know the 5 questions that will solve your business challenge? It sounds like a gimmick, but it’s just strategic planning.

Digital Marketing

Strategic Planning

3 Key Sources for Accessible Market Research

Sr. Strategic Planner Zori Ivanova dives into 3 sources for accessible market research during the strategic planning process.

Market Research

Why empathy maps are more important than ever

Those emotions, while not entirely connected, look something like a curvy line with highs, lows and everything in between, which is a great transition to our topic: empathy maps.

Strategic Planner Laura Pierce explores why empathy maps are more important now than ever.

Content Strategy

Congrats to National Hardware, our 2022 ADDY award-winning client partner

Hanson Inc. is proud to congratulate our client partner National Hardware for winning an ADDY award in the 2022 ADDY Awards for the Toledo chapter.

Client Partnership

Celebrating our 2021 WebAward winning client partner

Hanson is thrilled to celebrate our 2021 WebAward winning client partner dormakaba.

Client Partnership

Redefining boundaries with interactive experiences

Director of Front-end Development Jenny Koeppel and Sr. Visual Designer Scott Deca discuss redefining boundaries through interactive experiences.

Front End Development

Interactive Design

Should your brand be on TikTok?

A deep dive into whether or not your brand should be on TikTok from Marketing Manager Sally Stearns.

Social Media Strategy

Celebrating Our 2020 WebAward-Winning Client Partners

Hanson is thrilled to celebrate our 2020 WebAward winning client partners: Restorative Therapies Inc., O-I Glass, and Battelle.

Client Partnership

Digging Into Wordpress Gutenberg

Digging into the advantages of Wordpress Gutenberg with Director of Front-end Development Jenny Koeppel.

Front End Development

Congrats to Battelle, our 2020 ADDY Award-Winning Client Partner

Congratulations to Battelle, our 2020 ADDY Award winning client partner.

Client Partnership

Mobile Vision, Part 3: Image Recognition

In part three of our series on mobile vision, Director of Mobile and Emerging Technologies Josh Jacob details image recognition.

Augmented Reality

Meet a Hansonite: Joe Holub

Get to know Joe Holub, Director of Experience Delivery at Hanson.

Experience Design

User Experience