Silverchair has invested in a complete design and user experience/user interface (UX/UI) department that we offer built in to every engagement. Design, usability, and discoverability are critical and intertwined parts of an effective platform, and Silverchair ensures that it has, and can coordinate, all the necessary skills in house in order to stay at the cutting edge of best practices and to deliver that value to our clients. Our designers have spent years watching and interviewing scholarly and professional users and have incorporated all that they’ve learned into our interfaces. We offer comprehensive design services anchored by your brand.
Objectives
- product + content strategy
- information architecture
- experience + interaction design
- visual design
- user research + user testing
- html, css, javascript, xslt
- performance engineering + testing
- cross-browser compliance
- accessibility engineering
- device testing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- making sites friendly to the user
- making sites friendly to search engines
- having meaningful pages that provides useful content
Accessibility
Practices that make sites:- usable by those with auditory, visual, or motor disabilities or impairments
- equally available to all types of people
- generally easier to use by all
User Research
Qualitative and quantitive
- user research
- usability testing
- user testing
- interviews
- and other user-centered design methods