Interface Design
Divided in three steps, I will research, design, and validate your product usability.
User research gives you needed insight into your customer and avoids unwanted bias in the design; this yields an ethnographic report.
As part of a design I provide mockups, storyboarding, and sometimes customer participation to allow early user testing, refinement of requirements, and more rapid development.
Test to validate usability, or go further and iterate on mockups to spot problems early and ensure your first release is excellent.
Architecture and Engineering
With over seventeen years of engineering and design experience, I can help you also architect and implement designs.
I can help integrate best practice design into your engineering process, using my experience in software development and from consulting to small and medium sized companies.
I'm familiar with a variety of development platforms and languages.
Because of my mixed background in both engineering and interaction design, I'm uniquely well suited for working closely with an engineering team or on complex designs.
Services
Do you need a little help or a lot? Best practices for usability include customer research, design iteration, and validating designs with user testing and ongoing metrics. But on a budget, an expert review provides good value.
Services I provide:
- Expert Review - heuristic and experience based
- Interface Design - ethnography, story boarding, and user testing
- Software Architectur & Engineering - in Java, PHP, C++, Ruby, and others
To discuss the kind of help you need, contact me anytime.
Expert Review
On a budget, calling an expert to review your current products or future designs will identify the most severe problems quickly. I'll identify the major issues from my experience user testing a variety of products.
A single round of user testing on your product, with four to eight customers, is an economic way to identify both the major and medium usability issues with your product or validate that your design is truly easy to use.
I can quickly test your products in Portland, Oregon — an excellent demographic for user testing — or at other locations.