User experience design expertise will help to quickly & efficiently move your project to the next level.
We offer UX Design services on a daily, or per project basis.
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Elements of UX
These are the common areas that a UX project will focus on:
Business Objectives
A vital part of the user experience process is to understand the objectives of a business, the ethos behind a particular product and the aims for that product. This is usually facilitated using:
- Client consultation
- Research
- Brainstorming
- Client engagement
User Needs
The success of a product or application is not only dependent on understanding the aims & objectives of a business. Understanding what users actually want is key and speaking to and engaging with users is a very important part of a successful design process.
- User research
- Client consultation
- Competitor research & analysis
- Usability testing
Information Architecture
To end up with a successful design, the architecture of the software application or product must be carefully established. The UX design process facilitates this:
- Identify requirements
- Clarify & define terminology
- Creation of product taxonomy
- Definition exercises (eg: card sorting)
System or Application Content
Following closely with information architecture is to establish the application content, images, copy, and to work with the content and the information architecture to produce storyboards and prototypes for feedback and review.
- Clarify copy
- Clarify imagery and graphics
- Creation of storyboards
- Creation of prototypes
- Feedback & review
User Behaviours
This takes the form of user testing, face to face interviews, and the creation of user personas which aid the understanding of user interaction and help visualise what users want from your app.
- Analyse statistics
- Create & carry out user tests
- Create user personas
- Carry out user interviews
Look & Feel
Information from the business along with input from user research, and further from competitor analysis, is used to establish a look and feel that is successful.
- Interaction design
- High level prototypes
- Colour psychology
- Sound design
- Visceral design
User Interface ‘UI’ Design
Here the information architecture, prototype feedback and look and feel, combine to guide the user interface design process.
- Visual design
- Creation of visual assets
- Layout of user interface
- Feedback & review