Digital Design

TUG designs digital spaces with a clear sense of place

We leverage our roots in information architecture to design products that are easy for the customer to use, deliver value to the business, and provide the clarity that developers need to build efficiently.

Our design process will help you:

  • Ensure your visitors always know what they can do, where they can go, and how to get there

  • (Re)design digital systems to meet the needs of today

  • Integrate multiple systems into one coherent place

  • Understand the dependencies between your existing systems, processes, and people, and your new place

  • Reduce the risk of change

Many digital places are driven first by technology considerations, and only later is the human perspective considered. The result is a complicated and confusing experience for people using the site. From the perspective of your visitors, your digital place is made of information, not technology. Recognizing this is the key to designing resilient, useful, and enjoyable places.

 

Websites

Software + Apps

Products

Intranets

 

No matter what kind of digital place you need, TUG will help you design places that are good for people through a proven process, perfected over hundreds of projects. Our design service starts with Digital Strategy and continues forward with:

  • Research, both qualitative and quantitative, to understand how people interact with or want to interact with digital places. This ranges from analysis of web logs and analytics to remote interviews to ethnographic research in the context of use. 

  • Mapping and modeling to clarify and align teams on user research findings. Using a variety of means, from personas to jobs-to-be-done to journey maps, we excel at turning observations into shared representations that guide and lead teams forward. 

  • Taxonomy and content modeling to support findability, advanced search, personalization, and knowledge graphs.

  • Digital ecosystem structure and navigation, design, and modeling, from sketch to testable prototype, and on down to the site and page-level information architecture and user experience design.

 
TUG is able to bring many parts and pieces together to a cohesive whole.
— Christine, Client
 

What We Do

Our core competencies—Digital Strategy (including AI Strategy), Evaluative and Generative Research, Digital Design, and Education—are key components of how we deliver results for our customers.

STRATEGY

Making The Complex Clear

Research

Clarifying Your World

Design

Creating a Sense of Place

Education

Seeing like an Architect