As team of User Experience designers STUDIO GNOT provides the following User-Centred Design services carried out in chronological order during the life cycle of the project, but each can play a specific and autonomous role
Strategy, Concept
Analysis and Strategy
- User research (mental model, ethnographic research, scenario and users' profile)
- Users' needs, goals and tasks
- Site's goals and mission
- Usability testing in case of redesign
Requirements specification and Concept
- Functionalities of Web applications
- Content requirements of Web sites
- Conceptual model (the big picture)
Product Design
Interaction Design for Web applications
- Workflows
- User interface interactions and types of page
- Medium-fidelity prototype (wireframe on paper)
- Usability testing
Information Architecture for Web sites
- Site structure: site index and map
- Content organization (editorial or database driven)
- Types of page and editorial skeletons
- Navigation patterns: browse and search
- Medium-fidelity prototype (wireframe on paper)
- Usability testing
User Interface (UI) Design
- Information Design
- Visual design: brand image and graphic design of the UI
- Templates in HTML/CSS: modular layout system (grid systems and components)
- High-fidelity prototype (HTML prototypes)
Implementation and maintenance
Implementation
- Manual production of the HTML pages
- Software for the automatic generation of pages (database driven sites)
- Usability testing (after the implementation and before launch)
Maintenance
- Users' handbook (on-line, off-line) and technical documentation
- Training for the content updating
Online Marketing
- Customer acquisition and customer relationships solutions, based on deep data analysis of internet traffic and user's profilation
- Promotion and enhancement of goods and services through search engines optimization and marketing
- Design of innovative e-mail, affiliation, social media and mobile marketing campaings
- Global revenue & market reach through improved digital products and integrated digital services