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Making software applications & web sites easy to use

Who We Are

Design for Context, LLC is a small, woman-owned user experience design consultancy. Our team of experts helps clients in many different industries achieve their goals through user interface designs that work. 

About Us

What We Do

We design easy-to-use web applications and software for users in complex domains. We create search and browse interfaces that make information findable. We engage users and stakeholders to solve problems. 

Our Services

Quick UX Help

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We offer 100% remote UX Audits that can be done NOW! We are offering a special discount on UX audits to improve your user interface navigation, accessibility, and ease of use.

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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

  • User Experience Design

    A human-centered user experience design process leads to products that are easy to use, making your users productive and successful.

  • UX Audit

    Make quick and meaningful progress on your user experience improvement goals with an expert UX audit of your website or application.

  • Visual UI Design

    A visually pleasing look and feel complements your brand and makes your product feel easy to use.

  • User Needs Analysis

    Understanding how your users think is the first step to good digital product design. You will learn what your users need through facilitated user research activities.

  • Information Architecture & Taxonomy

    Our work increases the “findability” of your information by organizing it intuitively and creating usable taxonomies, navigation, and search systems.

  • Virtual Collaboration

    Our approach to online collaboration, facilitation, and user-centered best practices enables us to support you and your teams from anywhere.

  • Usability Testing

    Hands-on usability tests with real users help you understand what works well for them and what can be improved.

  • Roadmap Facilitation

    Set the direction for your next-generation products and services with our help, through facilitation, visioning, and roadmap planning.

  • Digital Information Strategy

    We help organizations assess existing information, then develop strategies and design approaches for people to contribute, discover, and use information.

Highlights

Presentation

Sustainable Futures for Digital Resources: Aligning Mission, Audiences, and Infrastructure

Explore how museums and cultural institutions can create digital research resources that balance the needs of both scholarly and broader audiences, as well as internal staff and partners, while supporting long-term institutional resilience in this talk at MCN 2025 conference.

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Best Practices for Analyzing Entities When Integrating Multiple Taxonomies

The process of developing a taxonomy often is a process of gathering and curating terms from various sources, such as repositories, archives, translations, or industry standards. Degler describes the process of “reconciliation” in which taxonomists analyze these disparate terms at the 2025 Taxonomy Bootcamp.

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Exploratory Experiences Built by Design

User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) conference

In this presentation, we talk about how user experience can facilitate discovery — enabling people to discover the unexpected in digital spaces, the “aha!” moment, or the deeper story behind a familiar subject.

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Mastering Interactive Maps

User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) conference

There are many unique considerations in customizing maps for use inside applications for specialized audiences. This presentation is about the key decisions that user experience designers need to make when integrating a map within a specialized product.

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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?

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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.

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