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.

Presentation Usability Body of Knowledge

May 26, 2010

Duane Degler and Lisa Battle will be providing a guided tour of the Usability Body of Knowledge and its new web site - a growing guide to usability techniques and concepts - as part of the annual Usability Professionals’ Conference, held this year in Munich, Germany.

Usability BoK
UPA Conference Website

Presentation User Interfaces for the Semantic Web

March 25, 2010

Duane Degler presents new concepts in user interfaces and discusses challenges for UI design raised by the Semantic Web, at a meeting of the New York Semantic Web Meetup group.