Evolving the Twenty3 Content Toolbox
Every now and then it doesn’t hurt to take a look back and see how far you’ve come. Building the Twenty3 Content Toolbox has taken over two years of hard work for us. What started out as an internal tool to try and save the sanity of our graphic designer – it seems to have worked, he’s still with us – and spare him having to continuously produce the same kind of social media templates over and over again, has managed to grow into a multi-purpose tool used by the likes of Sky Sports and Catena Media.
There have been a few pivots and shifts along the way, a complete overhaul of the UI and a fairly painful infrastructure rebuild, so it’s safe to say that things have not always been the smoothest. But, it’s also safe to say we’re pretty proud of how far we’ve come. With that in mind, we thought we’d pick out and share some of the highlights (and spare you the many, many bugs fixes) with a little graphic and the rest of this article.
Album art
January 2019
Added a new feature for users to store their images into albums allowing for easy re-use in graphics. No more uploading every time.
Pending…
February 2019
Research and development starts on a new feature to allow users to explore and analyse data on teams and players.
Edit card
March 2019
Upgraded the stats feature for Smart Graphics to allow you to change any stat on the fly within templates like Player Cards.
Picture perfect
March 2019
Added facial recognition to the image editor to auto-crop player imagery, saving users having to manual adjust photos to be in-frame.
It’s science
April 2019
Added a new data science visualisation library allowing users to drop heat maps, shot maps and more into templates.
Level up
June 2019
Faster, better, stronger. Performance upgrades making creating graphics faster than ever.
Welcome to the Lab
September 2019
Delve directly into the data; compare players, analyse their performance over custom time frames and more.
Viz, viz, viz
October 2019
Added tonnes of new visualisations to the library including passing sonars, tackle maps and xG maps.
Story time
October 2019
Brand new product added to the Toolbox that alerts you to emerging trends in player and team data.
On brand
November 2019
New multi-brand features allowing you to easily swap elements like the template theme, logos and colours.
Loading…
December 2019
Data visualisations will now auto-load into templates as soon as you choose your team or player.
New year, new me.
January 2020
Complete overhaul and new look for the graphics tool. Stripping away a lot of the unnecessary bits for a slim, trim and easier to use product.