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Usability
It’s easy for Digital Garden to say we employ a user-centred approach to our web design, but what does this mean?
For us it means understanding your roots at the start of design time: who your intended audience is, what you want to say to them and why they are looking at your website. Most of all, we want to know what you want your website to achieve.
The duration and complexity of the design process is dependant on individual project timelines, resources and your requirements but commonly includes the following features:
- Front-end research to understand your objectives and user profile.
- Testing out our designs throughout the process: from paper-prototyping at the conceptual stage through to wireframes at the structural and “finished” graphic screen options.
- Where possible we promote elements of the contextual design methodology (observing and interviewing your website users in work contexts) and the participatory design methodology (involving users in design suggestion interviews).
- Digital Garden is experienced in creating websites and intranets that meet accessibility guidelines including those adhered to by the Australian Government. We build web pages and templates in semantic XHTML mark-up. For us, this is simply best practice.