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User Experience Design

for Enterprise Web Applications

We tailor a design strategy for you that addresses your needs. Then we execute that strategy, whether you're starting fresh with a new product idea, designing the next version of an existing offering, or looking to create a prototype of future concepts.

We evaluate products to identify usability problems, find and fix the low hanging fruit, rework navigation systems, and conduct usability studies/user research to inform the design work with real-world knowledge. We then create stunning visual designs for these applications that enhance their usability and their impact in the sales process. We can create easy-to-reference style guides for your applications so that your team will know how to keep building upon our user interface designs in the future.

Learn how to design and test your user experience yourself by asking us to train your team onsite, building an in-house competency in everything we do.

"This work is great! You should be

charging (your other clients) more!"

User Experiences designed to date:

121

Applications

Killer app

Hey, you don't get to design a KILLER APP every day

( Hagan + David ) Rivers = two rivers

Photo of Hagan Rivers & David Rivers We are a husband and wife design consulting firm located in the Boston metro area.

We keep our business small because we want to make sure that we are personally available to provide the best user experience design services at the best price.

Having cut our design teeth at Apple, Sun Microsystems and Netscape out in Silicon Valley and holding degrees from MIT and Tufts, we have the unique ability to offer world-class user experience designs without world-sized egos.

We work for clients large and small, industry-leaders and startups, and have accumulated valuable experience in many industries.

While we frequently work for clients in Massachusetts and the New England area, we have equally delighted clients in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington DC, and all over the world.

"The designs that you made for us

basically sold the company."

How is two rivers different?

We like hard problems.

In order to make the user experience of Enterprise and Business applications as intuitive and approachable as possible, we must be able to comprehend the complexities of the back end. It is this ability that makes our user interface designs shine, even with thousands of screens. And when it comes time to create a simple front end for the consumer side of your application, it's easy to make it... easy.

We're practical.

With 38 years of combined industry experience, we know how to get the best bang for your development buck that will still make a huge difference to your users' experience.

We provide useful results in any amount of time.

We have consulted on projects for as little as an afternoon. We've turned around entire businesses for under $10K. Regardless of the size of your project, we complete on time and within budget.

Our visual designs enhance usability.

Many visual designers create form without regard to function. We create beautiful visual designs that enhance usability, whether or not your users are distracted, color blind or elderly.

We work with your tools.

You've invested in toolkits or frameworks - we work with whatever technology you do. Ajax, Flex, CSS, XHTML, Excel, Ruby, Silverlight - you name it.

We work the way you like.

We don't force a "process" or "model" down your throat - if you use Agile development, great! If not, great! Need help instituting an effective user experience design process? We can help you put it in place.

We're excellent teachers.

We teach at MIT, conferences like UIE and CHI, give virtual seminars on web application design, and continue to work on practical publications to advance the state of the art in user experience design for enterprise web applications.

We understand you the first time.

Call us to discuss your needs and discover why more than 9 out of 10 companies we provide proposals for become our clients.