Services

For me, it’s more than just a front-end. I want to help you achieve your goals and milestones for today, but want you to know that I have a vested interest in seeing your continued success through tomorrow. All of the UX processes and documentations are meant to allow you to autonomously carry on your vision, past the initial proof-of-concept.

Check out a sampling of the a-la-carte services I can deliver for you…

Sitemap - Offering you the ability to see the bigger picture, sitemaps convey how the site will work from a hierarchical and practical perspective, outlining the front-end workflow architecture.

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Feature Matrix - your product shouldn’t just be feature rich, it should be feature complete. This deliverable is used to inventory, track and manage all of the feature ideas for your product. The algorithms built in, are used to facilitate weighing and prioritization of features for ease-of-planning.

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Wireframes - also referred to as “schematics”, “page architecture” or even “blueprints”, wireframes are a visualization tool for presenting the layout of a product’s elements. Most wireframes are designed for the home page and any major templates; however any page that requires your approval or represents major subsection of the site and require a distinct layout and functionality should have a wireframe.

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Persona/Scenario - Viability. Interest. This deliverable is designed to demonstrate how your audience will benefit and use your product. Personas are archetypal representations of audience segments, or user types, which describe user characteristics that lead to different collections of needs and behaviors.

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Competitive Analysis - In today’s market, you must know what your competitors are doing and what to do to stay ahead of the competition. A competitive analysis is a process of gathering and analyzing information about your competitors, their practices, products, strengths and weaknesses. This is intended to help you assess your position in the market and improve your products and marketing strategies.

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Heuristics Analysis - There are ten basic principles for user interface design. They are called “heuristics” because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines. This analysis, picks apart your product and scores values that measure its consistency, standards, accessibility, aesthetics and other key points that affect your users overall experience.

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Usability Testing - Usability testing is a technique used to evaluate a product by testing it on users. These tests can be conducted in many phases of the project and are invaluable in obtaining direct input on how real users use the system.

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Workflow Analysis - taking the time to analyze the process, progress, or “flow” of work within a system, and the rate at which that happens, is a crucial part of understanding the usability of a product. Whether it’s an underlying business process, the actual user interface process, or a communication process, we look at the impact on progression and affordances to the user.

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Mental Modeling Focus Groups - the information gathered from these focus group activities provide input for strategic planning to review perspectives on how to improve design, communications, features, and interoperability.

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Surveys - for the good of businesses to target particular demographics, the information is used to collect information about income, lifestyle, age, race, family size, and buying habits.

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Ethnographic Research - a holistic methodological strategy used to provide descriptions of targeted audiences. Whether it’s direct, first-hand observation of behaviors, contextual inquiries, interviews, blogging or other forms, this is helpful for understanding how people use products and services.

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Ongoing Maintenance - going beyond “delivery”, we can also help you with execution by providing review, approval and management solutions.

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