Little Springs Design is a mobile product, research, design, and usability testing consultancy. We help wireless operators, associations, manufacturers, and application & website providers with product and UI design, patterns, training, research and strategy.
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The user experience is more than just pretty HTML and graphics.
The platform, architecture, data structure, and coding practices all affect application responsiveness, user flow, data security, available features, data location, and so on. Then there is handling the myriad devices. Which devices should be supported? What development strategy is best?
While some web sites can reasonably serve their users through universal design techniques and content adapting servers, other sites need to have an explicit mobile focus. This is true even for future web browsers that support all the features of desktop browsers. The screen is small, there is not a mouse, the device has power constraints, connectivity is sporadic, and the user is mobile.
Little Springs Design understands the mobile web: users, technologies, browsers, and devices. We can also advise when a thicker client is needed to best serve the user.
You've got a product idea. You've seen an opportunity... You've got a vision... But wait! Now is the time to either validate your opinions or rethink them. Product strategy is driven by your vision, our deep knowledge of mobile users, and user models.
Product strategy includes identifying features, selecting the proper technology to best serve user needs, content process, pricing, and distribution.
This is where products start to come to life: blueprints, page renderings, and information architecture that communicate to the management team what the product really is. Behind the scenes, we design user interaction. How will users accomplish key goals? How will they understand application organization? Where will key features reside? What information sources are needed? How will advertising be supported? What is the best device rendering strategy? How will security be handled? We answer these questions and more.
Deliverables include screen flows, content strategy, device rendering strategy, wireframes, visual language, sample icons, and key screens.
Once the conceptual design is complete, accepted by the project sponsor, and verified as achievable by the developers, the detailed work begins. Now each screen is considered and every flow is specified. All edge cases are handled. Device rendering differences are addressed. The result is a user interface specification document, usable for coding and testing.
Our expertise includes XHTML MP, XHMTL Basic, ECMAScript. We can also work with many desktop technologies.
Emulator or device, laboratory or field, formal or informal: testing your device, application, or service with users enables better design and development decisions. Early testing facilitates iterative design; late testing enables benchmarking. We can help.
