Liferaft | Red Thread Innovations Copy

At a glance

LifeRaft, a leader in open-source threat detection, partnered with RTI to overhaul their flagship product, LifeRaft Navigator. The aim was to modernize their platform, reduce technical debt, and enhance the user experience to ensure better detection and mitigation of potential threats in support of their mission of building a safer world.
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Service: Product Growth & Evolution

Expertise

Product Strategy

UX Research

UI & UX Design

Technical Architecture

Agile Delivery

Software Engineering

Technology

React

Micro Frontends

Challenge

LifeRaft’s Navigator platform was built on legacy technology and burdened with technical debt, making it difficult to maintain and evolve. The existing system also lacked design consistency, negatively impacting the user experience. LifeRaft needed a partner that would address these issues and rapidly accelerate product delivery, while ensuring the platform remained functional during the transformation.

Solution

Working in collaboration with LifeRaft’s design, product, and engineering teams, RTI migrated LifeRaft Navigator to a modern React architecture, overhauling the user interface with a cohesive design system to ensure consistency and scalability. We delivered continuous, incremental updates, enabling LifeRaft to deploy new features and rapidly add value for its users while minimizing disruptions and maintaining operational continuity.

Result

The transformation eliminated legacy software issues, significantly reduced technical and design debt, and improved operational efficiency. Feedback from LifeRaft’s leadership team has been overwhelmingly positive, noting our collaboration's crucial role in advancing the platform’s threat detection capabilities and enabling LifeRaft to unlock new revenue opportunities.

Collaborative Solutioning

Through close collaboration with LifeRaft’s team, we identified key pain points and areas for improvement across Navigator’s architecture, technology, and design. We conducted Architecture Working Groups (AWGs) with their engineers to surface problems to solve, and collaborated to identify the best solutions across processes and tech stack to enable scalability and deliver maximum value for LifeRaft’s end users.

Enabling Consistent, Scalable Design

We worked in lock-step with LifeRaft’s design team to ensure that all design elements were consistent across the platform. By developing a robust design system and standardizing components, we improved the user experience and made it easier for LifeRaft’s team to maintain and update the platform.

Streamlined Development Process

Our team collaborated closely with LifeRaft’s internal developers to migrate the platform to React, implement a micro front-end architecture, and address design inconsistencies. This streamlined process allowed for modular updates and continuous delivery, reducing disruptions and ensuring seamless operational continuity.

Seamless Knowledge Transfer

RTI provided extensive documentation, including design and API documentation, to facilitate smoother knowledge transfer and future development. This documentation bridged gaps in LifeRaft's existing records, ensuring all functionalities were well-documented and easier to manage.

Agile Process for Accelerated Delivery

Our agile approach enabled us to work iteratively, releasing updates in sections and incorporating continuous feedback. This collaborative effort with LifeRaft’s engineering team ensured that the new platform was robust, scalable, and successfully delivered within tight deadlines.