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Our clients typically want one of two types of demos. The first is a PowerPoint presentation that, screen by screen, shows how a product can be used with screen shots that look realistic and attractive.
The second is made of live HTML screens that can be clicked and scrolled through, and can update and change as part of a script - essentially looking very much like the finished product without any real back end.
Jump to our portfolio to see how good they look.
You know the typical story - the demo looks ok, but it's not really getting people excited. Worse, when people start diving in, there's a lot of hand waving.
The visual design work is clunky. The difficult parts haven't been addressed. While these demos do serve a useful purpose - to get people thinking about what the real product will actually be like - let us assure you that there is much more to a great demo.
We start by addressing the tasks users will be faced with when interacting
with the product - this determines the flow of the demo. Next, we discuss with
you what you believe are going to be the sticky issues people will be concerned
about. We are then able to create a first, or even second pass at how to create
a user interface for these critical elements of the demo—with realistic
data and the controls that will be actually needed in the real product.
Add a quality treatment of the layout and available space and
sleek artwork and icons and instead of questions like "But...how
is it going to work when the user clicks here?" you get questions like "When
can we have this?"
It gets better—a Two Rivers demo ends up costing less and saving time. Here's how: because your demo is a much better approximation of the actual product, you spend much less of your time trying to bring your demo back down to earth. Now that the demo is a realistic first pass at the real design, you save design time—you spend your time fleshing out the design rather than translating fantasy into reality. Meanwhile, your developers are already digging right into implementing what would have otherwise been tricky. We can even run usability studies from the demo to inform the actual designs - all before the engineers start coding.
There are examples of our demo work in our portfolio.
The time and cost for building a demo has a wide range. We've created demos that consist of one or two key screens from the product for as little as $1,000. A demo doesn't have to be big and interactive to be useful - it can be as simple as a PowerPoint deck, a couple of screenshots produced in Photoshop, or a handful of web pages. These less ambitious demos can still communicate your ideas effectively and address difficult user interface issues without spending extra consulting dollars.
At the other end of the scale, we have created demos made of over 60 HTML pages that took over an hour to present. A demo like this can tell a whole product story to potential customers and forms a substantial design foundation for your engineering team when it is time to build the product. As you can imagine, this sort of demo is just a bit more expensive. We can help you to create a demo that will work for you in your budget.
Call Hagan at 978.352.2585 to arrange for a proposal that will let you know exactly what to expect and how much it will cost.
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