At BlackHägen Design, we specialize in creating safe, easy-to-use, and delightful user interfaces (UIs). Our design process is thorough and engaging, involving users from start to finish. We employ research techniques like Contextual Inquiry, Projective Mapping, Storyboard Development, and Card Sorting to gather valuable insights. Our expertise covers all stages of UI development, from early concepts to visual design and specification. We refine designs through wire-framing and interactive prototyping, conducting extensive testing. Our focus extends to intuitive and user-friendly mobile and web applications, embedded GUI design, and labeling design for safe device operation. In addition, we provide Virtual and Augmented Reality Testing, enabling product envisioning and testing in diverse environments. With our meticulous approach, we precisely document each design component in a UI library, ensuring visual consistency throughout product growth.
BH’s comprehensive HFE toolbox enables project teams to apply appropriate levels of usability oversight throughout the design and development process to ensure user needs and use-safety measures are integrated into end-product design. By integrating an iterative, cost-effective strategy from the earliest phases of design, culminating with a rigorous summative validation, we provide a quality-complaint process that demonstrates use-related safety and yields a superior commercial design.
BH’s design engineering team work closely with human factors and user-experience members to fully understand the product vision as interpreted through powerful user-studies, respecting evolving innovation and product differentiation strategies. The combined team balance all desired project goals to determine the best system solutions that will ultimately drive the success of the product in its defined market.
The industrial design process considers and integrates system-level architecture into a variety of mechanical concepts to explore the best-balanced solution that addresses user-needs, while optimizing the workflow experience through intuitive functionality, passionate aesthetics, and pragmatic efficiency. At BH, our designers are experienced in defining the best approach to mechanical layout, materials, finish, and methods of assembly that ensure ease of use, service, manufacture, and sustainability at the lowest unit cost.
Conducting relevant research with all intended end-users at project inception is vital to fully understand market requirements, operational safety, and functional specifications. BH identifies and interviews all user groups to better understand the entire workflow spectrum, ensuring a holistic approach to defining design inputs, evaluating performance criteria that ultimately drive successful product validation.
