User Interface Blueprints are critical to building highly successful consumer technology. They define the user's experience and enable developers to ship on time and keep engineering costs down. When done right, your business, marketing, audience and engineering requirements are distilled into a unified and comprehensive user interaction plan - the UI Blueprint.
MONKEYmedia's expertise in interaction design and usability analysis, along with our time-proven project management methodology, ensures that collaboration between our teams will result in products that are both easy to use and fully engaging.
Partnering with MONKEYmedia will help ensure that the user interface design and development of your product goes smoothly. Together, we can determine the right way to integrate our finely-honed design methodology into your way of doing business. Depending on your needs and timeline, we'll employ the combination of methods that gives the best results.
Understand
We work with your business, marketing and engineering teams to achieve understanding of all aspects of the project that impact the user experience. By listening carefully to what you already know, and by conducting additional studies when appropriate, we gain a multifaceted view that is essential to great interaction design. Our Requirements Analysis Document records this knowledge and serves as a reference throughout the design process. It also sets the stage for measuring success at the end of the project.
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Validate
At key junctures and decision-making points, we take extra steps to ensure that the proposed interaction and architectural foundations are sound. Our methods range from informal to scientific, and include tools such as walkthroughs, heuristic evaluations, focus groups and usability studies. Each provides information to fuel refinement. Ego has no place in great interface design. And we make sure of this by turning validation over to our own impartial usability experts.
Refine
Great designs rarely show themselves the first time around. Rather, they require managed evolution. With feedback from our validation processes, we ensure that important issues are addressed before your engineers start coding. Occasionally, unforeseen circumstances arise while the product is being built. Through participation in the change management process, we collaborate with you in assessing risk and designing fixes consistent with the target user experience.
Communicate
Cross-team dialog is essential and ongoing. Meetings and informal communications among project members are just the beginning. Our secure extranet hosts not only deliverables, but all works-in-progress and key decision transcripts. The Requirements Analysis Document is the deliverable that codifies design parameters, and the Functional Specifications Document equips your development team with design details - from navigation maps, screen schematics and sensory style guidelines, to interaction definitions and scenario-based use cases.
