In the 3 years that I've worked with Creotec, I've never heard they say that something couldn't be done. Numerous businesses owe much of their financial success and their long-term competitive edge online to Creotec's 'can-do' approach, lateral thinking, experience, hard work and general good humour. All in all, Creotec makes even the most complex projects a pleasure to work on, and will work tirelessly to see that they succeed.
Website design principles
Our vision for your website will utilise these principles of good web design to deliver an exceptional user experience whilst maintaining brand values and a strong identity. So when we are designing and developing the website/user interface, working closely with the design and creative team, we apply the following principles;Web site design and development guidelines
Clean: Keep everything simpleContent: Provide the content your users need and want
Confidence: Make sure your users know you are the experts
Community: Create a platform for your users to share their experience with other users
Commerce: Provide the tools to do business on-line
Communication: Keep your users informed and close
Commitment: Provide personalised features and functions to keep your users coming back to your website
Competitive: Keep an eye on what your competitors are doing on-line
Application interface and usability guidelines
Simplicity: Keep it simpleUser profiling: Know the users
Metaphor: Borrow behaviours from systems familiar to the users
Feature exposure: Let the user see clearly what functions are available
Coherence: The behaviour of the program should be internally and externally consistent.
State visualisation: Changes in behaviour should be reflected in the site appearance.
Shortcuts: Provide both concrete and abstract ways of doing a taskFocus: Some aspects of the user interface attract attention more than others
Grammar: A user interface is like a language - know what the rules are
Help: Understand the different kinds of help a user needs
Safety: Let the user develop confidence by providing a safety net
Context: Limit user activity to one well-defined context unless there's a good reason not to
Aesthetics: Create an inviting environment
User testing: Recruit help in spotting the inevitable defects in our design
Downloadable resources
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| Request for proposal template Type: application/octet-stream Size:161.5KB |
Download this word template to help you prepare your Request For Proposal (RFP) document. This template is tailored for websites and web application design and development. It is ideal for businesses looking to outsource web development work to a 3rd pa |
| Simple web site requirements questionnaire Type: application/pdf Size:64.791KB |
Download this template to help you capture your website requirements. It will hopefully ensure that you think about everything you need to consider when thinking of building a user-friendly yet functional website. |