Iterative Design Services

Julie Ratner, Ph.D, President and User Experience Strategist

At Iterative Design we use a wide variety of creative research techniques to assist businesses in understanding end users in order to deliver successful marketable products.  Iterative Design specializes in innovative user-centered development processes.  All these services are agile, customized to match your business needs and timelines.  By leading Usability events, we provide opportunities for partnerships between development teams and existing and prospective customers.  By listening to users with an empathetic ear, intuitive and easy to use products launch.  Iterative Design expertise encompasses mobile applications, web sites and desktop software. 

Contact jratner@iterativedesign.com or phone 206-465-8602 in Seattle.
  • Usability testing of mobile applications and desktop and web sites
  • Heuristic evaluations and competative reviews
  • Field studies and naturalistic inquiry
  • Phone usability and other remote testing techniques
  • Site maps, nomenclature analysis, and information architecture reviews
  • Tutorials and workshops on interviewing, prototyping, usability testing methods, and phone usability


Recent Projects

  • Strategic analyst for user-centered research projects to inform development and product teams each quarter.
  • Lead multiple rounds of phone usability testing on mobile apps and search and e-commerce web sites.
  • Conduct field and usability lab research on 'tween' and adult mobile software and search and directory sites.
  • Create and develop user profiles of kids search engines, mobile ringtone applications.
  • Coordinate usability bashes using mobile and web paper and beta prototypes.
  • Edit volume and author one chapter in the 2nd edition of Human Factors and Web Development (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., 2003)
  • Expert review of navigation and layout of three competitive business systems web sites.
  • Complete online brokerage phone usability study.
  • Conduct competitive analysis and heuristic evaluation of three web-delivered newspapers.
  • Create and develop user profiles of global e-commerce system for purchasing software.
  • Manage and faciltate user testing of paper prototype and user centered design activities for financial toolbox software with development team

 
  Julie Ratner     2514 E Spring Street     Seattle, WA 98122 USA     206-465-8602     jratner@iterativedesign.com