Spring Studio

Inspired Interactive Design

Spring Studio is a boutique web design firm that specializes in bringing web sites to life.

Our team of professional user-interface and visual designers has been helping our clients keep up with the ever-evolving web technologies since the earliest web sites burst onto the scene. Now, with Web 2.0, a large-scale rebirth of the web is challenging businesses of all sizes to update, overhaul, or redesign their online experiences.

Spring Studio has the expertise needed to help you establish a state-of-the-art, interactive user interface for your web site, online demo or web-based application.

User-Focused Web Design

Our designs are driven by your business objectives, our creative experience and most importantly, the end-users' expectations, motivations, and desires.

A strong focus on usability is becoming even more important as Web 2.0 features become more common. As the web becomes more interactive, it also creates more ways for users to become confused. In turn, it is imperative that every detail be considered so that the user interface is rich, compelling, intuitive, and easy to use.

The result: web sites that consistently meet or exceed our client's objectives.

Take a look at some of our latest designs in our Portfolio.

Web 2.0 Enhancements

Web 2.0 presents unprecedented opportunities for enhancing your existing web properties.

We are experts at enhancing existing web sites. Whether you need to add new features, new content or just a new look, our team has the depth and breadth of experience to help produce spectacular results.

Visit our Playground and take a look at just a few of the web 2.0 features we could add to your site.

User Experience Design

User Experience Design is the process of designing the structure, layout, weighting and flow of content on a web site. It is the core skill we bring to every project.

Whether designing a new web site, building a new web-based application, adding new content or features or changing the look and feel of your web property, success is first and foremost a function of how well you meet your user's needs and expectations.

Our user experience design professionals have the experience, talent and insight required to produce web sites that accomplish their business objectives and satisfy their users.

Application Interface Design

Web 2.0 finally makes it possible to quickly and efficiently produce web-based applications that behave more like desktop applications.

Almost from its inception as a public medium for business, the web has offered the promise of easier, cheaper, more accessible tools. However, for most of that history, those tools have been clunky and difficult to use.

Web 2.0 is now making it possible to design online tools that use familiar desktop-style controls -- drag and drop, dynamic tables and other user interface features -- common to the desktop for two decades.

Our team has designed and built the user interface for scores of web-based applications. This experience combined with our user-focused methodology and Web 2.0 expertise allows us to produce beautiful, intuitive, state of the art web-based tools.

Usability Planning & Testing

Spring Studio incorporates usability planning and testing throughout our design and development process.

Intuitive, easy to use web sites do not result from treating usability testing as an afterthought applied at the end of a project. It requires a focused attention to user input throughout the design process.

We provide everything from early user input sessions and requirements gathering, to paper-prototyping, to click-through prototyping, all the way through final user-testing. Our process is designed to ensure that your project and your end users are successful.

Demos & Tutorials

We've been building interactive online demos, tutorials and prototypes for 10 years.

More and more companies are finding that interactive sales demonstrations, product tutorials and marketing promotions provide a cost-effective medium for delivering their message. View a sample of the interactive tools we've built:

• Schwab Trading Demo
• Schwab RIA Modeling Tool
• American Express Kids Card Game
• American Express AXIOM Sales Demo
• American Express AXIOM Services Demo
• Blue Shield Producer Demo
• Blue Shield Member Demo

E-commerce

Focus on the user. Drive toward the business objectives.

Successful e-commerce sites must have:

• Messaging that speaks to the users' goals and motivations and peaks their interest.
• Information that provides the user with everything they need to know in order to make a purchase.
• A design that at best compels the user to buy, and at least does not present them with obstacles.
• Marketing that brings qualified users to the web site in the first place.
• Technology that supports the functionality required both by your customers and your business.

Our user-focused, business driven methodology ensures that e-commerce sites we build accomplish all of these objectives.

In addition to serving our primary enterprise design and development clients, Spring Studio has a division specializing in design and development of custom, SEO-friendly Yahoo! Stores, My Store Solutions.