Our Development Process

Our Process

Learn a bit about our agile development process for software products & projects

Custom Software Development

How we get you from problem to solution.

Frame

You tell us about your wants, needs and challenges. We propose a technological solution that meets those requirements. This is the: “What are we building?”

Define

The team works with you to define the product. Ending with an agreed upon feature set, timeline and cost. This is the “how we’re building it.”

Implement

We begin an agile build phase to deliver the product.

Release

Final testing of the system and release to the market.

Support

We support you and your product with maintenance and feature additions.

About Us

Project Stages

Individual stages and steps involved in our development process.

1. Gathering Requirements

What are the must-have and must-do business requirements for the system or product you wish to create? This can be anything from timeline, budget, to regulatory requirements you may need to meet like HIPAA or PCI compliance, depending on what you are doing.

2. Feature Prioritization & Selection

Based on given constraints (often timeline and/or budget focused), this exercise helps you prioritize the most impactful features for delivering value to your users, so that we can focus project resources (time, money, etc.) where they will have the most positive impact on the success of the new product.

3. User Experience Design

See User Experience Design below for additional details.

UX Consulting

4. Database Design

This includes your data model which outlines how different entities relate to one another within your application.

A well-designed data model is important to make your application more efficient and make any future expansion or changes easier.

5. Implementation

We will work with in an agile framework to begin implementing (coding) the system components.

This includes periodic touch points to review progress and continually reevaluate and incorporate adjustments as circumstances change and new information is learned.

6. Testing & Release

Backend testing, frontend testing, and acceptance testing (acceptance testing is where you as the client sign off on the functionality delivered in each phase).

Deployment of systems to cloud (for APIs and web applications) or submission and release in related app stores (Apple App Store/Google Play Store).

6. Maintenance and/or Handoff

Depending on your goals, we can work with you to structure a plan for ongoing maintenance and product support.

If you are at a point where you want to bring your development in-house, we are also happy to facilitate a handoff of the product to your team.

UX Consulting & Feature Development

Research & Design to build intuitive products

1. User Research & Persona Development

Who are your target users? What can you expect from them (familiarity with various technologies, education level, what type of devices they use to access the internet)? What do they care about? What are they trying to achieve? — anything that would impact how they understand, interact with, and use the system.

2. Brand Design

Depending on your needs and business stage, you may opt to use our brand and brand design services during this process. We will work with you to meet your needs whether that is logo design/redesign, brand guidelines, or both.

If you would like to utilize our branding design services, please let us know. We do not include them by default but are happy to upon request.

3. Information Architecture & User Flows

Information architecture is rooted in the understanding of human cognition and how we process information and execute on our goals

We combine this with a fundamental understanding of data science and appropriate communication of different types of information.

We will design the overall flow of information for the system based on these core sciences and our understanding of the target users.

4. Wireframing & 5. User Interface (UI) Design

What will the layout of the screens actually look like? This is closely related to information architecture.

UI Design is the design process that takes the wireframes and user flows and artistically brings them to life in a way that aligns with your brand aesthetic.

5. Prototyping & User Testing

Prototyping is higher fidelity, interactive wireframe that incorporates responding to user actions for the purpose of gaining feedback and learning about opportunities for improvement in the user experience and interface.

User testing is a planned and observed event where a user is asked to complete a general task or goal using a system prototype or beta build of the actual system, for the purpose of gaining feedback.

6. Iteration

Based on what you learn in user testing with your prototype(s), make informed decisions and revisions to your user interfaces. This can be repeated to fine tune the user experience. We recommend at least 2-3 iterations.