Design for Context

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Our approach

Understand your user needs

We consider the full picture: who will be using the application or website, what they are trying to accomplish, and what might get in their way, as well as your business needs. User research defines your audience and provides essential insights on how to best meet their needs.

Design solutions that work

We understand how people think, perceive, and interact with technology. Our human-centered user experience process refines designs in collaboration with stakeholders and users to make sure your product works for your organization and your users.

Make people successful

Technology should never get in the way of success, but sometimes it does. We create great designs using a proven process that ensures a positive user experience, making both you and your customers successful.

We specialize in

Highlights

Presentation

Enabling Exploratory Discovery Through Taxonomy

Taxonomy Boot Camp 2024

Not everything can just be searched. “Aha!” moments deliver value. Exploration leads to insights and surfaces contexts. How do you prepare your content for these user experiences?

Presentation

AI Explanations as Two-Way Experiences, Led by Users

User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) conference

How do we craft designs that "explain" concepts and respond to users’ intent? Can AI identify, elicit and apply relevant user contexts, to help us understand AI outputs? How do explanations become two-way?

Presentation

Menu Mania: What's Wrong With Menus

User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) conference

Menus are ubiquitous in websites and applications of all types. They are critical to accessing the information and actions that users need. In this presentation we share best practices for designing menus.

Presentation

Connecting Art & Archives for Research, Discovery, and Storytelling

MuseumNext (virtual)

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Design for Context have developed a scalable infrastructure supporting integrated information from art, archival, library, historic home collections and exhibitions. Exploring rich relationships reveals a wealth of contexts, perspectives, events, and places. Learn about how the Museum is envisioning the future of its publishing and collections-based storytelling.

Making software applications & web sites easy to use

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Understand your user needs

Design solutions that work

Make people successful

We specialize in

User Experience Design

UX Audit

Visual UI Design

User Needs Analysis

Information Architecture & Taxonomy

Virtual Collaboration

Usability Testing

Roadmap Facilitation

Digital Information Strategy

Highlights

Enabling Exploratory Discovery Through Taxonomy

AI Explanations as Two-Way Experiences, Led by Users

Menu Mania: What's Wrong With Menus

Connecting Art & Archives for Research, Discovery, and Storytelling