Design is everything. Everything! – Paul Rand
At Galvin, we understand that design is important. We prove this by dividing our design process into three areas: graphical design, user experience, and functional design.
Graphical Design
During graphical design, our interactive designers will spend the time needed to understand your brand, audience, goals, and expectations. We first develop
wireframes, or blueprints, for each site. The wireframes are the foundation that depicts the site’s layout, hierarchy of information, navigation, and calls to action.
After wireframes have been completed, the
visual design of the site is then developed. During this phase, the designer will work closely with you to ensure that your company’s brand is truly represented while designing for the necessary functionality documented during the
discovery phase. Our interactive designers are constantly staying up-to-date on industry standards and the latest design trends by reviewing blogs, attending conferences, and continuing their education. At Galvin, design is not completed until you are 100% satisfied.
Functional Design
As much as design and user experience is important to the success of website/application, functional design is as much or even more important in some cases.
As the key means of conveying the implementation of functional requirements, Galvin employs the use of Use Cases to document the implementation of functional requirements and business rules. Use Cases are developed for each physical component of the website/application architecture. Use Cases also serve as the primary means of requirement traceability.
The purpose of use cases is to provide our clients with enough detail to ensure that Galvin has captured the specific end goal of all functionality. Our use cases will include “User Interfaces”; these rough mock-ups help our clients visualize the interface and are developed before the actual wireframes.