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.

Recently PublishedFuture Interfaces

June 2008

Duane Degler's presentation on "Future Interfaces for Semantic Web User Interaction" is now available online. He presented this annual what's-new tour at the UPA conference in Baltimore in June 2008.

Presentation slides

Recent EventUPA e-Government Track

June 2008

Lisa Battle, principal consultant at Design for Context, chaired the e-Government track at the international UPA conference in Baltimore in June 2008.
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