UX/UI

User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design encompasses many aspects of a website including the visual design, information architecture, content, usability and interactive features (animations, user interactions etc.).

The design process starts with input sessions with the client and completing a Project Profile which includes goals, industry research, target audience Persona profiles, analytics, and researching best-in-class design examples.

Utilizing the information architecture defined in the sitemap and wireframes, the web design is created in Sketch. A prototype is then created using InVision showing key pages. While every website is different we incorporate well-tested design principles and aesthetics on every project.

Some of these include:

• Emphasis on a ‘clean’ design, including the layout, typography and color
• Highlighting content over design
• Subscribing to ‘a just enough is more’ design credo i.e. not over designing or adding gratuitous design elements
• Incorporating a generous use of white space to make pages easier to read and use
• Using color sparingly to help highlight ‘calls to action’ and content
• Utilizing a Responsive Web Design and a Mobile First development approach, so the site displays optimally on mobile, tablet and desktop computers
• Adhering to usability best practices such as standardized navigation schemas, user interactions (mouseovers, links, visited links) and open layouts with vertical scrolling
• Large font sizes e.g. standard paragraph text at 14 pt or larger
• Placing the most important content on the left side of the page, e.g. placing photos and content there, not secondary navigation
•  Utilizing large, visual drop downs from the primary navigation

Other factors critical to a successful web design are specific to the website type. Here are some of the types of sites we specialize in:

• Business to Business (B to B)
• Business to Consumer (B to C)
• Non-profit
• Blogs
• Online Communities
• E-commerce
• Social Media