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    Designing for user experience

    To us, UX is far more than designing apps.

    We specialise in designing interfaces that transcend the boundaries of what is physical and what is digital. Our multidisciplinary team are perfectly placed to design compelling products and services that exist in both the physical and digital world.

    In harmony

    We believe that the best experiences are created by designing for the digital and physical world side-by-side.

    Our integrated approach combines designers, researchers, human factors, with software and hardware engineers to deliver experiences from future facing concepts right through to production support.

    Informed

    Our designs are built on a foundation of research and a detailed understanding of stakeholder needs.

    We start by considering how information and interaction add value to individuals and overall system performance. This leads to a detailed exploration of what information is required, when, where, who it should be displayed to, and in what format. The objective is to ensure that the information provided allows users to be more engaged, effective, efficient, safer and happier. We apply the same rigorous approach to all forms of information display whether they are physical interfaces, embedded displays, smartphone apps, or voice-based systems.

    In different contexts

    Smartphones are only one part of the picture. We also design interfaces for embedded screens in a wider range of products from ship positioning systems to medical devices.

    DCA's team works to deliver pixel perfect interfaces that are evidence driven. We work across a full range of platforms and have developed a unique suite of tools that enable us to develop GUIs flexibly, iteratively, and quickly, even for the most basic embedded hardware platforms.

    In safety critical settings

    In many environments, it’s imperative that the interface is right first time and the code is demonstrably safe.

    We understand what it takes to design for safety critical, highly regulated applications.

    In collaboration with users

    Nothing quite matches putting something into the hands of users and key project stakeholders to help them engage with the "wow" moment.

    We have the in-house skills to prototype embedded devices on representative hardware and develop corresponding Android / iOS / web applications to bring interactions to life.

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