For us, design is part of an overall process. We always work to strike the most effective balance between features, navigation, visual design and the tone of your copy. This involves:

• Analyzing customer expectations.
• Conducting competitive overviews and critical examinations of best practices.
• Designing information architectures, auditing content and building taxonomies.
• Creating navigation systems.
• Producing visual design compositions.
• Building prototypes.
• Testing usability.

You can apply our design work to different types of problems. We help some companies refine the usability of their websites in small but important ways. Others require more extensive revamping of branding strategies, navigation and information architecture. We also design entirely new interfaces and visual designs from the ground up.

Our Design Partners

Threespot
www.threespot.com
Threespot Media was established in February 1999 as an interactive studio focused on front-end web development — strategy, architecture, content development, and design. Threespot has worked to create a company that delivers world-class creative and client service without the high costs and slow turnaround often associated with high-profile interactive development. The Peace Corps, U.S. News & World Report and Discovery Communications are clients of Threespot.

Minerva Design
www.minervadesign.com
Minerva Design has been creating innovative, effective graphic solutions since 1990. The company provides a range of design services — printed marketing materials, internet communications, corporate identity and more. Minerva Design’s clients include Intuit, the San Francisco Ballet and Wells Fargo.

Ion Global
www.ion-global.com
With offices in 10 cities worldwide, Ion Global specializes in international and multilingual e-business assignments for companies such as GE, Cathay Pacific, Charles Schwab and MCI. Services include multicultural web site development and international online marketing.