Achieve your business goals through your users’ success

Specializing in user-centered design and usability, Design for Context helps businesses and government agencies design information technology (IT) products—such as web applications, software, and web sites—that are easy to use and understand. We also help to establish sustainable user-centered design within organizations by integrating it with existing software development process and by providing education and mentoring.

What do you need?

We can help you:

Find out why people are having trouble locating information or completing tasks
Improve user productivity to achieve organizational goals
Translate your users’ needs into user and business requirements, resulting in an easy to use application or web site
Build a communication bridge between users, developers, and other stakeholders

What does “design for context” mean?

Ease of use doesn’t happen by accident, but by design. Good design of IT products depends on an understanding of context, which is a combination of factors about the situation in which the product will be used, including:

The characteristics and experiences of the people who will use the products
Their tasks and goals
Their work environment
The capabilities and limitations of the technology
The goals of the organization.

When a product “fits” well into its context, it is easy to use.

Learn more about our approach.

Upcoming Event Politics Online

April 20, 2009

Design for Context will be at the Politics Online conference in Washington, DC on April 20-21.

This brochure from the conference highlights some of our services, including Strategic Triage, Usability Spot Check, and training.

Tutorial RIA Design

June 9, 2009

Duane Degler will be co-leading a tutorial on interaction design techniques for Rich Internet Applications, as part of the annual Usability Professionals’ Conference, held this year in Portland, Oregon.

UPA Conference Website

Presentation Semantic Web Interaction Design

June 11, 2009

Duane Degler will illustrate new concepts in user interfaces and explore useful design techniques needed for the Semantic Web at the annual Usability Professionals’ Conference.