My new CMSWire article is now available! They get exclusivity for 90 days before I can post it here, so please go read Don’t Continuously Deploy Junk, Fix It Before Release. Preview: Don’t Continuously Deploy Junk, Fix It Before Release Companies must stop releasing...
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Research · Design · Prototype · Test · IterateWe offer your engineering team the dream process of building a finalized and tested design once.
Remarkable designs. Passionate UX experts.
We are available to agencies, startups, and companies of all sizes and locations for short-term and long-term UX projects.
Ptype is refreshingly different.
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Over 20 years of experience and expertise.
We architect, craft, and construct the best solutions and designs for your target audiences.
We involve you in the process and make sure you understand what we’re doing and why.
We’re Mary Poppins… we come in, we fix everything, sing a few songs, and we fly away until needed again (or stay on monitoring KPIs and live user recordings so we can get the next phase into the backlog).
Main Areas of Service
UX Strategy, Innovation, Design, and Optimization
Product and experience design for digital interfaces including websites and apps.
Service Design
Service design focusing on processes, motivation, employee experience, and customer delight.
Axure Prototyping
Axure prototyping for brainstorming, iteration, user testing, impressing investors, and more.
Axure Training
We’re one of the few Axure-recommended trainers on the planet.
UX Training
Training on UX topics for UX practitioners, non-UX roles, managers, and executives.
Upcoming Training Workshops
- DevOps ICU: Improving DevOps Results by Integrating UX Practitioners and Processes
Helping non-UX roles fit UX into their software dev methodologies and processes.
Dec 2018 live and online AND January 2019 live in the Bay Area, California. Registration is open now! - Live Online Axure Workshops
Core Skills
January, April, and July 2019 via Zoom
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Updates
- Our Mobile Apps Prototyping video course is now available! Plus a new bundle of all three Axure video workshops. Learn more.
- Did you miss our presentations at WeAreDevelopers in Vienna or UX Designers Camp Serbia? Visit our Ptype Academy for home studio versions of these presentations.
- DevOps ICU: Improving DevOps Results by Integrating UX Practitioners and Processes, a 6+ hour video course, is now available. Learn how UX fits into Agile (and many other topics!).
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Recent Articles
The UX of Job Applications: Less is More
My new CMSWire article is now available! They get exclusivity for 90 days before I can post it here, so please go read The UX of Job Applications: Less is More. Preview: The UX of Job Applications: Less is More Few online processes are more frustrating than online job...
Should You Do Design Challenges When Interviewing? 2019 Update
I've blogged on this topic twice before and I'm trying something new that I wanted to share. I've seen some recruiters and hiring managers on LinkedIn saying everybody should do design challenges, you have to "earn" the right to work here, etc. And I've always advised...
How Important Is Talent When Hiring for UX?
My new CMSWire article is now available! They get exclusivity for 90 days before I can post it here, so please go read How Important Is Talent When Hiring for UX?. Preview: How Important Is Talent When Hiring for UX? LinkedIn is a never-ending source of advice on what...