Designing Usable Applications

Lofthouse Design is a small firm offering design and development of websites and technology applications with a clear focus on usability. Our solutions include:

• Marketing websites
• Transactional web applications
• Custom content management systems
• Enterprise software applications

We believe strongly that by making end users as efficient and productive as possible, we help our clients get the most value from their investments in technology.

Our Approach to Usability

We start every project by studying business requirements and user needs. We need to understand what will make the project a success from a business perspective. Similarly, we need to know who the users are, what they want to accomplish, and how they think about their tasks.

Next, we match business and user needs to technology requirements, and begin to design solutions that:

• Include features and functionality that are helpful to users
• Are structured to achieve the business goals
• Make appropriate use of the technology

Throughout the design process, we engage real users to validate and test our designs, and provide feedback on how the application can be most useable.

Our designs may be in the form of user interface (UI) specifications or protoypes, which help us to develop the application most efficiently. The end results are websites and technology applications that are helpful to end users and achieve business goals.

See our Portfolio for examples of our work.