Define.

• Investigate the ideas, challenges, and product requirements.
• Create a clear statement of objectives
DELIVERABLE: Application Mission Statement

• Develop Personas based on target user demographics
• Develop use cases based on business objectives
• Identify features the interactive experience must support
• Organize features to articulate the overall flow of the application UI
DELIVERABLES: UI Flow Diagram, Use Cases, Personas Document

• Assess target audience capabilities and requirements
• Reccomend the technology which best suits the application
DELIVERABLE: Technology Assessment Document

Design.

• Outline the detailed user interaction through lo-fidelity wireframes
• Create "Black Box" prototype, a working prototype and overall direction without any visual design
DELIVERABLES: Wireframe Document, Black Box Prototype

• Structure and organize data into a cohesive, inseparable whole
• Model data according to use case scenarios to determine what will be required for case successes.
DELIVERABLE: Stubbed Data Structures

• Define the user-centric interface design
• Optimize individual components for optimal ease of use
• Develop a brand-centric visual look & feel for the application
• Explore product identity options including logo marks, icons, and skins
DELIVERABLE: 3×3 Compositional Mock-Ups

Develop.

• Pattern-based Framework configured
• Break down application development into individual component development
• Hook Middle-tier up to the back-end data sources
• UI Data Services are integrated with middle-tier classes
DELIVERABLE: Functional Alpha Application

Deploy.

• Appearance QA: Accurate replication of final design is verified.
• Usability QA: Effective and successful user experience is validated.
• Performance QA: Quality and reliability of system responses is tested through Unit, Assembly, and Stress tests.
• Bug regression cycles
DELIVERABLES: Functional Beta Application, Test Metrics Document

• Private release test cycles, response tracking, critical updates
• Marketing support
• Training & education
• Final deployment to live servers
DELIVERABLE: Launch Party

Innovation & Strategy - Investigation, research, and prototype development of innovative application strategies.

User Experience - Information architecture, user interface, visual design, and product identity all work together to create a simple, effective, and successful experience.

RIA Architecture & Development - Our proven methodology successfully delivers scalable, next-generation RIA experiences with a rock-solid pattern based architecture.

Training & Education - We offer on-site and on-line training in RIA related object-oriented programming, application development, and architecture.

Adobe Flex® - Flex 3 is an open source framework that enables us to create RIAs that can run in the browser using Adobe Flash® Player software or on the desktop on Adobe AIR™. Flex applications provide a stateful client that allows many useful ways to send and load data to and from server-side components without requiring the client to reload the view. Flex 3 provides a standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns. We have developed Flex applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.

Adobe AIR® - AIR applications allow us to deploy engaging applications to the desktop. These applications run across operating systems and are easily delivered using a single installer file.

Microsoft Silverlight® - Silverlight allows web applications to be developed with features that integrate multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime. It is designed to work in concert with XAML and is scriptable with JavaScript. Silverlight includes classes for data access over XML-based Web services (POX), REST and WCF Services.