User Experience

Codethink provides interaction design, graphics and development services to produce software and device solutions that work brilliantly for real people.

Involvement in a huge range of ground-breaking projects over the years has given us a deep understanding of the keys to great user experience design:

• ace programming is important, but it's not enough
• graphics and animation are crucial too, but they're not the whole story
• developers and designers don't think like users
• getting user input is vital, but users may not know what they want
• users are not us - they're older, younger, the opposite sex, smarter, dumber, richer, poorer, from different cultures... etc.

Getting UX right requires

• full understanding of user perspective - who they are, what they want
• effective combination of interaction design, graphics and code
• extreme attention to detail
• iterative validation with fresh users

Codethink's in house team of graphics and interaction design experts are guided on UX projects by Nick Healey of Slash Design. Nick was a driving force behind Psion's original world-beating palmtop UX, and has been a leading light in UX design thinking for over twenty years.