Watch this week’s vlog to discover how UX is everywhere through KRUTSCH’s 6 Principles of Usability.

In light of our dedication to providing high-level UX design services to our clients, we recently received recognition from Clutch as the best firm for UX solutions in Minnesota.

A vlog adaptation of a past blog post, Ken Krutsch shares the difference between two important roles in project development.

In this week’s vlog, President of KRUTSCH, Ken KRUTSCH discusses the five traits in which great UX designers are like sales people.

At KRUTSCH, we believe in the importance of user testing. It's a cornerstone of our process and of user experience design, or UX. User testing is one of the most valuable tools to ensure product expectations are met for both stakeholders and end users.

KRUTSCH makes it a priority to learn about a company’s customer base and user experience to ensure the products it helps build and deploy are well researched and supported with evidence. This understanding of a company’s goals, wants, or needs are why clients come back again and again with new projects.

Designing for new and existing products each have their own unique challenges. With an existing product it’s easier to find a starting point because there’s a history that can be worked with. Designers have the ability to tap into a user base, analytics, and are able to test an existing product to understand the user experience. When there isn’t an existing product, one must choose where to start.

Creating our UI Patterns was both uniquely fun and challenging. Below you’ll find the play by play of the brain rollercoaster that was our process, along with a more cut and dry look at what it means to program examples (as a front end developer) of our User Interface design patterns.

After working with the developers to make our UI Patterns accessible, KRUTSCH designer, Megan Thompson shares why our UI Patterns are so important to the UX design process!

At KRUTSCH, our process tends to be a process of designing, interactive prototyping, testing, re-designing, prototyping, testing, trying to get that feature set workflow and user experience just right.

Device design guidelines are a collection of recommended guidelines for designing UI for specific devices or a set of devices. While at first seeming restrictive, these guidelines contribute to the overall cohesiveness of a user's experience with a device.

Meet the faces of KRUTSCH in this ‘Vlog’ take on a previous blog post on why we here at KRUTSCH believe UX design is a team sport!

We’ve made quite a few apps that work in lots of different ways.

When a client comes to us with an idea for app, the conversation eventually turns to: it's not 'an' app, it's three apps. The client usually assumes we mean iPhone and iPad, Android, and web-based for desktops.

In Part 1, we observed how Connected Device User Experience (UX) design is a trifecta blending of The Device (hardware enabling a function), The Service (providing the value), and The App (a user interface, providing access). To do that successfully we need to address eight UX challenges. This is Part 2, the listicle you've been looking for, amplified with examples taken from our anecdote in Part 1, which is here: 8 UX Design Challenges with Connected Devices, Part 1

Connected Device User Experience design is a trifecta blending of The Device (hardware enabling a function), The Service (providing the value), and The App (a user interface, providing access). Connected Devices are the NFL of the UX world - very hard to get right and unforgiving when it fails. Our background has taught us that we're going beyond connecting digital platforms - we're connecting people. To do that successfully we need to address these eight challenges.

Too often designers insert pretty graphs that show information that isn’t actually critical to the user. A dashboard’s goal is simple: help users evaluate and perform the most important tasks. How to design dashboards that become an effective, reliable resource for users.

Collaborative efforts have armed us with the tools needed to not only design and build our client’s ideas, but also give them the means to succeed beyond deployment, to grow their brand on a variety of platforms. We’re committed to helping our clients build a marketable product, designed to their specific promotional and growth goals.

Every product launch surprises us a little. It’s not that testing uncovers issues in need of repair, polish, or even re-design; that’s a given for any but the most trivial of apps. No, it’s simple, passé elements, that we exercise over-and-over internally, that somehow trip-up our end-users and leave us shaking our collective heads. Here are some entertaining examples.

We’ve made quite a few apps that work in lots of different ways. How do we design for iOS versus Android? We focus on accommodating platform differences while maintaining a cohesive feel and experience.

Dont™ is a native application that enforces safer, undistracted teen driving by allowing parents to establish rules for their child to follow on their mobile device and monitor for unsafe driving behavior. More than simply illustrating a logo, we collaborate with our clients to develop a visual identity that matches their unique vision.