Strategic Design Services
Azinno specializes in strategic user experience design. Through a people-centered process we:
- Turn a business model into a delightful experience and powerful brand.
- Help create products and services customers crave.
- Use a four stage process of Discover » Design » Refine » Deliver to create wholistic solutions.
Discover
- Gather insights and inspiration for the project.
- Immerse the team in the problem space; the users, the tasks, the context, the competition, and the technology.
- Conduct research and analysis to understanding the customer, their behaviors, beliefs, and expectations.
- Ethnographic field research and analysis
- Conceptualization
- Human factors and ergonomics research
- Design reviews (heuristic evaluations)
- Competitive user experience analysis
Design
- The magic starts as great concepts become visual.
- Azinno generates numerous concepts that provide a vision which stakeholders can grasp and feed into.
- Brainstorming, innovation, and invention
- Interaction architecture and user interface design
- Industrial design and product design
- Mockups, sketches, and prototypes
- Branding
Refine
- Azinno works closely with the team to ensure solutions account for the technical constraints, market considerations, and end user requirements.
- Ensure that final design is buildable, sellable, and usable.
- User interface specifications
- Graphic design, illustration
- User testing including usability evaluation and reporting
- Accessibility and 508 compliance
Deliver
- Build and validate. We can build it for you, or work with an in-house development team. We follow through with your team to solve issues that come up during implementation.
- Final user interface specification or style guide
- Implementation ready graphic resources
- Motion graphics, videography, photography
- Development and coding
- Platforms and back-ends
Training / “Teach Us To Fish”
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime., Chinese proverb.
Azinno offers a variety of training options:
- Presentations (free, generally a one-hour overview)
- User Experience workshops (1, 2, or 3 days)
- In-house seminars and training (on request)