Our Proven and Simple Process.
Our process centers on the most important aspects of any product or website — your users and your business needs. Before any design work begins, we start by learning what your users need in order to accomplish certain tasks and what your business needs in order to generate or save money.
Depending on the project, we follow a fine-tuned methodology that is comprised of several key components depicted in the downloadable graphic below. Our process places the user at the center of every task we perform, every deliverable we create and every decision we make to ensure the design of your product creates an engaging user experience.
Working with your Company’s IT Team
Many companies have resources and subject matter experts that are equipped to handle just about any technical hurdle that their business throws at them. However, sometimes those resources can be stretched beyond their capacity or beyond their areas of expertise. That’s where UX Team comes in. We specialize in User Experience design so your team can focus on development.
We work with you and for you to clearly define our scope of work and how you want our deliverables packaged and delivered so that all parties involved are on the same page before we even begin. Then, throughout the project life-cycle we collaborate with your team on all our visioning sessions and presentation reviews of wireframes, prototypes, test results and HTML/CSS assets.
“We started working with the UX Team in 2010 on a very large application development project that we were doing for one of our premier clients. The UX Team far exceeded our expectations and, more importantly, the project exceeded our client’s expectations. We look forward to working with the UX Team for years to come.”
Working with your Development Firm
Since we are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fusionapps, we work with developers everyday – so we understand exactly what they need to get their jobs done. When we work with other development firms, we become an extension of your team. We understand the importance of making sure your clients see us as part of a seamless, unified team — not a third-party.
If you have some design capabilities, we can work with you to fill in the gaps. If you have no design capabilities, we can provide them for you. You define how you’d like to engage and we’ll work with you to add our capabilities to your offerings.
“The UX Team has been helping us out on our client projects for over a decade, and we have never been disappointed. They always give reliable estimates, and the work they produce is top notch.”
Working with your Startup
The UX Team is comprised of designers from all walks of life and many of us were either part of or worked for an Startup in the past. We understand the nature of working on a bootstrap budget and the importance of delivering a Minimum Viable Product while designing for a full-featured product release.
We are also heavily caffeinated and work odd hours – so we’ll fit right in.
“I’ve worked with many UI and UX designers over the years but none are as innovative and value-add as Chris Gieger and The UX Team.”
Typical Project Sizes:
UX Team operates in a very open and transparent manner on all our client projects. Our doors are always open for our clients to come in and meet and work out of our office; and our clients have direct access to each team member they work with. We also feel it is important to begin any new client relationship with that same openness, which is why we list our typical project sizes. We feel it demonstrates a certain level of respect for a potential client’s valuable time if we let them know ahead of time what to expect from a budget and planning purpose when they work with us. Now, ever project is unique and may not fit perfectly into one of these sizes – but we think providing these figures is still more useful than not providing them.
- Small Project: 2 – 4 weeks. $15,000 – $30,000.
- Medium Project: 4 – 8 weeks. $30,000 – $60,000.
- Large Project: 2 – 6+ months. $60,000 – $100,000+