Our Design team utilizes a structured approach and partners with your business and technology teams to transform your business objectives into rich, intuitive applications.
Our employment of working prototypes throughout the design phase supports the notion that “seeing is believing”, allowing users to provide direct feedback, refine their ideas and evolve the solution early in the delivery process, leading to an optimal end solution.
Functional Prioritization & Process Design
We work with clients to define the end solution or target application, identify core requirements, and get your idea to market quickly.
Our Offering
We partner with clients to identify and deliver a rich set of functionality that directly meets the end-users’ needs via:
- A unique requirements gathering, prioritization and scope definition methodology that is a proven approach for quickly distilling core requirements.
- Interviews and workshops as a basis for identifying key functions, which are grouped into scope-maps and prioritized using a set of agreed filter criteria.
- Operational use cases and data models are then used as the basis for the initial prototype.
Key Questions
- Who are the targeted end-users? How do they interact with one another?
- What are the real end-user needs? How do they utilize inputs / outputs from our applications? Can we improve workflow and processes utilizing the new solution?
- How do we prioritize delivery items and manage the scope across the releases cycle?
- How do we ensure that we’ve correctly and effectively met end-user's needs?
- How do we ensure that we get to market quickly with the ‘right’ solution for our business partners and clients?
User Interface Design & Prototypes
We understand the importance of user experience and visual design, and we work with clients to design intuitive, straight-forward interfaces that are critical to an application’s adoption and success.
Our Offering
OpenCrowd offers a rapid and iterative prototyping process to ensure designs are efficient and tailored end-users’ needs. Designing the user experience for RIA’s requires a different approach compared to traditional web applications as it is characterized by:
- Greater integration between different applications
- Multiple activities interacting with each other on the same screen
- Richer set of UI components
- Increased ability for user customization
Direct feedback on prototypes from end-users is a central part of our design service and ultimately serves as the foundation for delivery of a final solution.
Key Questions
- What is the ultimate goal of my end-user?
- In a perfect world, how could I achieve this goal?
- What design and which technologies would be best suited to achieve this goal?
- How can I quickly develop and verfiy the design?
Architecture & Build Planning
Web and Cloud architecture should aim to empower a business user by providing tools that offer multiple ways of accessing information locked inside enterprise systems. Exposing data sources in a flexible way that allows rapid building and deploying of functionality is vital to a quality architecture. Besides requiring all the robustness, scalability and security of a typical enterprise grade application, a Web 2.0 application, also requires the flexibility, agility and nimbleness to recombine and mash functionality in new ways.
Our Offering
Our architecture team will create an architecture blueprint for business users and development teams. The architecture and implementation process will take into account the current state and architect a solution to support the capabilities mapped out in the functional prioritization.
Our technology team will partner and collaborate with your organization to create the architecture, select tools and technologies, and set up a road map for implementation in alignment with your technology standards. The team will identify a core set of services required to support your new architecture. Technologies used in Cloud infrastructure are at different levels of maturity and provide different levels of SLAs. It’s important to define the approach to scale, monitor, manage, and secure the system to meet your SLAs.
Key Questions
- Is our technology strategy aligned with our business vision and direction?
- What new and emerging technologies will enable leapfrogging my competition?
- What changes or updates are required to my existing architecture to enable use of the emerging technologies?
- Am I effectively managing my data? How do I instill a service oriented culture in my organization and applications?
- How do I integrate individual applications that are not currently able to communicate with one another?
- What will it cost and how long will it take to implement business and client-facing solutions?
- What are the dependencies and critical success factors?
