projekt202

projekt202 understands how interface design fits into business, marketing, sales, engineering and operations.

We distill your business goals, user needs, marketing strategy, and technology opportunities into a comprehensive user experience roadmap that promotes easy to use and fully engaging products.

Although designers think and communicate differently than scientists and scholars, our methods of inquiry within the design space are just as powerful and rigorous. projekt202’s design research group conducts both generative and evaluative research.

We apply established research techniques during the Discovery phase to gather and understand client domains and target users in a short amount of time. Some of the techniques that we use regularly include Contextual Inquiry, Heuristic Evaluations and Competitive Product Reviews, Information Architecture Mapping, and Stakeholder Interviews.

We conduct both qualitative and quantitative lab-based User Validation and RITE Studies and Usability Testing throughout the Ideation and Detailed Design phases in order to uncover critical data about ease of use before the product goes into development.

You can learn more about the research techniques we employ in the Process section of this site.

projekt202’s interaction design group uses a variety of collaborative techniques to spark not only the creation of individual screens but also to generate a consistent and reusable design language. Ease of use and feasibility of development factor significantly in our interaction design philosophy. As a result, the documents we provide our clients include specifications and tools that ensure your continued success beyond the duration of our engagement.

Storyboards are small sketches that illustrate a sequence of actions the user may go through to get a desired result using the product.

Wireframes are an illustration of the proposed functions and layout of a screen, including all content and controls.

Interactive Prototypes quickly assemble the screen wireframes of select workflows into an interactive format that supports usability testing and internal/external demonstration.

Visual design brings clarity, impact and stunning beauty to the solutions created by the design research and interaction design teams. With a fine sense of aesthetics, carefully considered use of typography, and color schemes supported by chromatics, visual designers bring expression and feeling to the metaphors presented to the users.

Look and Feel Studies are visual design explorations that let our clients explore their applications with differing colors, weights, textures, etc.

Screen Renderings apply the established visual design language to wireframes to reflect how the screens will appear to users in the end-product.

Visual Design Language Specifications are in various formats and include component size, color and usage information necessary to develop and implement the design.

When a project involves a rich application technology like WPF, Silverlight, Flash, or Flex, projekt202’s design-savvy front end developers bring the designs to life. Our purpose is to transfer the designs into the technology of choice and done so to ensure a high level of fidelity in the final application.

This work involves styling the control library, creating any necessary custom controls, and building/styling screens. We do this by understanding and respecting your development team’s architecture patterns.

Our work is focused around constructing these building blocks for integration into your solution. The integration, plus all back-end connection to real data sources, inter-screen communication, and commanding is left for your team. This ensures an easy transfer of knowledge to the folks who will be finishing out and maintaining the application.

If you do not have a development team to finish out our deliverables, we can introduce you to one or more of our partners for evaluation.