Whether you're looking for a simple brochure website, an eCommerce store or a content managed portal, Digital Design knows what works on the web, and can provide creative yet highly usable website designs that fit with your brand.
Web & interface design services
We work in a flexible way to suit the nature of your project. Some clients like us to be involved in every stage of a project, while others just use us for parts of a project where they think we can make a difference. Our key strength areas are:
- Custom web design
- Interface design
- Designing for accessibility
- Wireframing
- Touchscreen interface design
- Modifying or developing 'themes', for example Sharepoint master pages
- Logo design & Corporate Identity creation
Our approach to digital & web design
With many years experience designing for the web, Digital Design understands that web design is about a great deal more than just making a website 'look nice'. Our aim is to deliver designs that not only look professional and modern, but perform well on a number of technical levels. In addition we adopt a 'partnership' approach to our projects, which means we will be with you all the way from the initiation of a new project, through design and development to tesing, training and ongoing support and marketing should it be needed.
Digital Design starts a new design project with a informal chat to get a feel for the broad requirements of the project, we will then help you complete a design brief to get a clear understanding of what exactly the client requires from the design. By doing this we find that our designs are usually very close to our client's expectations on the first iteration.
Once the design brief has been completed, and depending on the complexity of the development, we will then produce a 'site map' . This is a visual diagram which shows the structure of the underlying website and ensures that the information architecture of the website matches up with the objectives of the design brief. It also provides useful information for the designer who will be drawing on this when he considers the importance of various links and navigation within the site template and homepage layout.
If the project contains signifcant functionality which is beyond the scope of a CMS product, we may recommend additional analysis to determine the extent and nature of these functions.
The designer will then produce a number of 'flats' or mockups which represent how the finished site will look. These are produced to scale and delivered electronically, usually in jpeg format, so that our clients can see a very accurate picture of the finished site.
We then complete any changes or amendments to the design before the design is approved by the client and is ready for development.
Interface design (GUI)
Digital Design works closely with web developers and analysts to provide User Interface design services for a number of applications ranging from business systems to versions of systems optimised for display on mobile devices, to touch screen kiosks. We understand the different techhniques required when designing for different environments and user groups, and can provide fast iterations of screen layouts and design, making for an agile and flexible approach.
We are also able to provide html prototypes and clickthroughs should these be required.
