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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Front End Development
Development of shipping quality, bug free applications, web services and user interfaces designed in previous engagements. Expertise across Microsoft .NET platforms, Silverlight 3, WPF, Flash Actionscript 3, and a variety of web technologies.
Design Coaching
Internal education workshops designed to resolve potential organizational, internal or political challenges. Need help setting up an innovation pipeline in your company? Need to increase the impact of our design organization within a larger organization? Need insight into how to … Continue reading →
Olen Ronning
With life-long interests in technology and ideation, Olen is passionate about designing products for a better future. A founding employee at Artefact, Olen has led and designed new software products for mobile, desktop, TV, and the web for clients including … Continue reading →
Brand Language Articulation
Throughout our process, we work closely with clients to understand, articulate and sometimes uncover brand values. We then create or interpret these values into product attributes. We leverage our understanding of the marketplace, end users, and business objectives to reinforce … Continue reading →
Design Improvement
Sometimes existing products and services require only incremental improvement—not complete reinvention. To accomplish this we undertake detailed observational research to understand core user needs, priorities, gaps, and pain points in the current experience. Our research includes time to understand competing … Continue reading →
Voice of the User
What will improve the lives of the people that will use your products and services? What are their motivations, values, beliefs, needs, and habits? We conduct research grounded in behavioral and social sciences to understand people and contexts, the environments … Continue reading →
Visual, Industrial and Interaction Design
Starting from a core value proposition supported by user research and market analysis, we work with our clients to provide validated design solutions for new services, devices or applications. We are often asked to augment existing research to fill in … Continue reading →
Business Strategy
Artefact works in close collaboration with product innovation teams to answer the question, what is next? We advise select clients on how to maximize growth and revenue by providing solutions to major strategic challenges. We help companies understand the business … Continue reading →
Vision Work
We help clients see the future by articulating a product or service vision. Informed by corporate goals, market, societal and technology trends, we help envision possible design and experience solutions. Sample Activities We adopt a variety of brainstorming and innovation … Continue reading →