“Good designers relentlessly generate lots of ideas and open-mindedly consider alternative solutions. At no time are good designers frightened to entertain a crazy, competing, or uncomfortable idea.”
—Karl Ulrich
Spirit Softworks provides comprehensive user experience design services. User experience design takes a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to the design of user interfaces for digital products. It integrates interaction design, information
architecture, navigation design, visual interface design, and instructional design, ensuring coherence and consistency across all of these design dimensions. User experience design defines all aspects of your product that users experience directly—the
product that users perceive, learn, and use—including its form, behavior, and content.
Learnability, usability, usefulness, and aesthetic appeal are key factors in users’ experience of your product.
User Experience Design Specifications
Depending on the needs of your project, Spirit can produce the following user experience design specifications:
- Conceptual Model Specification—Our high-level Conceptual Model Specification for your product describes our vision for solutions to your product’s unique challenges and includes an objects/actions analysis, product lexicon, task scenarios, and wireframes or storyboards. Learn more

- User Experience Design Specification—As appropriate for your project, our User Experience Design Specification can comprehend interaction design, information architecture, navigation design, visual interface design, and instructional design. Learn more

- Interaction Design Specification—Our detailed Interaction Design Specification defines your product’s functionality, interactions,
behaviors, and workflows; provides specific labels for controls and other interface objects; and includes wireframes, screen images, or usage scenarios that illustrate direct-manipulation interactions. Learn more

- Information Architecture Strategy and Specification—Our Information Architecture Strategy and Specification
defines the structure of your Web site or other digital information product and includes a high-level content map, detailed site diagrams, and labeling schemes and metadata for your product’s content objects. Learn more

- Navigation Design Specification—For a Web site or other digital product, our Navigation Design Specification defines the
affordances that make your product’s structure visible to users, including their labeling, as well as user interactions and product behaviors that support wayfinding, and includes wireframes, screen images, or usage scenarios that illustrate all navigation
elements and interactions. Learn more

- Visual Interface Design Specification—Our Visual Interface Design Specification defines the appearance of your product’s custom controls, icons, and other visual interface elements; provides window or Web page layouts; and includes screen images that show all elements of your product’s visual interface. Learn more

- Instructional Design Strategy and Specification—Our Instructional Design Strategy and Specification provides a high-level instructional design strategy for your product and defines, in detail, the aspects of instructional design that are integral to your product’s user
experience. Learn more

All design and specification occurs during the Design Phase of our UC3D Lifecycle™.
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