Devise features Interaction Design services supported by development.
Interaction Design (IxD) is a discipline that defines the forms and behaviors of digital products and systems based on an understanding of people's needs and goals. Chief Design Officer Elizabeth Bacon applies her IxD expertise to create personas, define interactive products, conceive feasible & innovative features and validate them with your customers. Devise can communicate design solutions using a variety of methods, including prototypes. Chief Technology Officer Mike McAulay provides high-quality engineering services and can support your development staff. With our combined expertise we aim to satisfy users of your products and delight your team.
Here are the principal services we offer:
Product Conception
Do you sometimes feel as if magical powers are required to define and design interactive products? Without resorting to any hat tricks we apply a proven, scenario-based approach to product conceptualization. You'll get stellar innovation, and learn from the process. This service applies the full spectrum of our user experience expertise in order to conceive the proper features, forms & behaviors of your service or product.
Interactive Prototyping
Limiting the communication of interactive system behaviors to static documentation can be costly and confusing. We produce high-quality interactive prototypes that clearly communicate product solutions to your technical stakeholders and customers. An interactive prototype presents a compelling story of the product vision that inspires your team and secures stakeholder buy-in. Rapid, iterative prototyping facilitates decision-making.
Two quick ways Devise could help your business thrive:
Design Audits
Do you have a questionable product currently under development, or have an existing product or service whose weaknesses are costing you business? We conduct expert design evaluations of your systems to identify points of pain as well as strength. We'll recommend specific, incremental improvements to the user experience with an emphasis on those likely to offer the best cost/benefit ratio.
Technology Audits
We'll bring our eagle-eyed technical expertise to bear on your released or in-progress software projects. We'll give you a thorough, unbiased assessment of the quality of the code, as well as your tool chain and build process. We'll point out areas with the greatest opportunity for improvement, and highlight where you're doing things right. We currently offer this service for software written in C, C++, PHP, Python and Ruby.
Customer Research
How do you know what to build? We use rapid, low-cost customer research techniques to discover the critical goals driving your users. Ethnographic research and contextual inquiry help us define personas and reveal your customers' mental models, workflows and environmental constraints. We provide comprehensive findings that will inform and focus product solutions to help your business grow.
Technical Design
Communicating your product design to the development team can be a challenge, especially when they're located remotely. Bridging the gap between the worlds of design and engineering is a Devise specialty. We'll translate design documents into an actionable set of technical specifications tailored to your development team's processes. Let's make sure your high-quality design is never lost in translation.
Custom Software Development
Do you have a strange or unique technical need that's not addressed by off-the-shelf software? Do you have a novel concept that you want to bring to life? We thrive on solving unusual technical problems. If it can be done with code then we can do it, so drop us a line!
Two advanced services to enable long-term success:
Interaction Design Training
We can teach members of your organization how to perform effective customer research and synthesize customer data into tangible interaction design solutions. Our powerful and flexible interaction design methodology uses a structured approach to help your team define products that exceed customers' expectations. We also address organizational issues so that custom training sessions take the specific make-up of your team into account.
Software Project Management
We have years of real-world experience shepherding development teams to successful product launches. Software can be shipped on-time and under-budget! What it takes is good planning, communication, and the right set of best practices. We'll work with your design and development teams to ensure your product comes to market successfully. We're very comfortable working with remote and distributed teams, as well.
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