Our Services
At agoraBlue our design services include an array of practices and methods designed to create or redesign applications that are exceedingly intuitive, usable, and engaging.
We know that the failure or success of your application is determined by how easy it is to use and we have the comprehensive design strategy that will ensure success.
Our Design Team’s User-Centered design strategy will make certain that your application is highly usable and engaging by evaluating such things as user expectations, behaviors, needs, and goals in order to meet your business objectives.
Web & Graphic Design
agoraBlue has a team of highly skilled and trained designers and developers that produce world-class systems to our clients. In today’s work environment it is a necessity to have a Content Management System (CMS) that allows you to quickly share disparate amounts of information with a multitude of diverse networks. We can build you a unique CMS that will help you collaboratively manage your work flow and leverage the medium of a social network infrastructure thus ensuring constant information sharing and oversight with your organization and users.
Our Design Team will work with you to determine your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and achieve a tailored and highly satisfying product for your organization. We cover a broad range of application development techniques that have been tested and proved time and time again.
eCommerce Design & Development
eCommerce Our eCommerce websites utilize all of our design practices and methods to create applications that are easy to use, simple to manage and give organization the greatest Return on Investment (ROI).
It doesn’t matter if your budget is large or small, you can expect that our dedicated Design Team will deliver a professional and high-quality product that will meet your business needs. Contact us to set up a consultation.
iPhone App Design & Development
iPhone Is your business ready to go mobile?
agoraBlue can develop an iPhone app that will diversify your user base and increase your connectedness to users. Our iPhone apps are optimized for Safari, highly functional, easily integrated with built-in iPhone applications, and designed for fast performance no matter the bandwidth conditions. Contact us to find out how we can get started creating your organization iPhone SDK app.
Logo Design At agoraBlue we create high quality logo designs for all types of businesses. We have a highly creative professional logo design team that will work to provide your organization with the most unique, stylish and modern logo design. We have a diverse approach to logo design and draw from a wide variety of styles to create the logo image you want. We also strive to create the best logos at affordable prices. Our logo design fees start as low as $149!
Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Optimized Site Analytics Is your website standing out? At agoraBlue our diverse approach to SEO will help your website achieve the ranking it deserves. Whether you are launching a new site or need your site optimized we provide the strategy and analysis to improve your ROI.
We believe that marketing your website through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is just as important as the design and functionality of your site. A beautiful site doesn’t do your organization any good if potential users/customers can’t see it. Some of the ways we can optimize your site’s searchability are keyword research, site auditing, competitor research, and tracking and reporting. Contact us to find out how we can make your site heard.
Interaction Design (IxD)
Our Design Team has a talented mix of Human-computer Interaction (HCI) experts, Human Factors specialists, and Interaction Designers. Our IxD strategy provides the bases for user workflow, and designs the overall user interface with the goal of improving interactions between users and your application by ensuring that it is both highly usable and receptive to user needs.
Usability Analysis
Certified Usability Analyst Our Certified Usability Analysts (CUAs) guide the design workflow through user-centered analysis which is our bases for designing applications that are intuitive and easy to use. agoraBlue's usability analysis will craft a design strategy that outlines such things as your applications business goals, requirements, target users, tasks, technology constraints, marketing/branding goals, and critical success factors. We also specializes in usability testing, which is a critical component of creating user-centered applications, and will help you move the design of your application into accordance with your user’s needs, limitations, mental models, and cognitive styles.
Business Strategy
Business Strategy Our Design Team understands the importance of having a design strategy that appropriately addresses stakeholder goals and expectations. We also know that maximizing your return on investment (ROI), while creating a successful user experience, is key for your business when designing or redesigning applications. Our design strategy will encompass all of these, and other important business strategies such as marketing goals and branding concepts.
Content Analysis
Content Analysis Our content auditing and content analysis techniques will serve to inform the design of your application. We specialize in analyzing, migrating, and archiving content by creating content object models that provide direction when creating robust content management systems (CMS).
Persona Development
Uncovering your user’s conceptual model is undoubtedly the main ingredient to developing a successful user experience. At agoraBlue we develop profiles and personas that describe who your users are and what they are or could be doing. To understand your users, we will clarify and communicate user assumptions by developing user personas through in-depth user research including: field studies, ethnographic research, usability testing, metric analysis, card sorting, and focus groups.
Persona Example
Information Architecture
Information Architecture Complex applications require highly intuitive functionality and navigation. Our Design Team will help you develop a blueprint for the informational structure of your application. Our Information Architecture (IA) will design and integrate content and user assistance appropriately into the user interface while also developing supporting content outside your application such as training materials. The ease of use for your application’s user interface is critical to its total system performance. Our IA goal is to ensure that the human element will fulfill and improve your total system performance by utilizing a “total system approach”.
Interface & Visual Design
Interface & Visual Design At agoraBlue we start by literally sketching the user experience. Whether we are designing a simple website or a complex computer application, our sketching and prototyping techniques address roles, tasks, business goals, and marketing/branding objectives which are critically important when designing a successful interface. We create visual designs whose appeal will give your users the engaging and encouraging experience your brand deserves.
Video Production & Editing
agoraBlue has an experienced staff in Video Production & Editing. We have directed and produced several government videos that are viewed around the country. Our Video Production & Editing solutions offer the latest and greatest in digital video production. No matter what your budget is, you can expect the finest quality video production from our innovative video team. Throughout the entire process, from pre-production to the final edit, you can depend on our efficient, professional, and accessible video team to produce the highest-end video possible.
Government & Corporate
Green screen video We know that a great video can effectively motivate, market, and inspire people. That’s why our team will work closely with your organization to create an effective video that is tailored to your needs.
Training & Educational
Training & Educational Our diverse staff is experienced in producing videos that require strong teaching techniques and communication that needs to be delivered in an entertaining and engaging way. Our Training & Educational video process will evaluate your target audience to produce a relevant user experience and employ proper learning objectives and materials.
3D Animation
3D Animation Let us bring all of your ideas to life!
agoraBlue has a talented staff of 3D animators that produce interactive content to fit your needs. Whether it is a complex scenario or a simple stick figure, rest assured that our animators will produce an imaginative and high-quality video. From creating characters and technical models, to enhancing video productions with animated backgrounds and transition, we strive to entice all those who view your video.
DVD Design & Replication
DVD Design & Replication The agoraBlue Video Team prides itself on high-quality distribution of your DVD’s. Highly effective DVD menus are an extremely important part of your DVD and we work closely with you to ensure that your DVD is produced with the high-quality that it deserves.
Services Offered
Some of our Proficiencies
  • Web Development
  • .Net Framework, Web Services/SOAP, XHTML, CSS, RSS/XML, AJAX, C#, VB, ASP.Net, PHP, JavaScript, JSP, ActionScript, Struts, Java Servlet, ActiveX Adobe Flex, Adobe Flash, Web 2.0 Content Management Systems, MS SharePoint, Social Networks, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) development
  •  
  • Graphic Design
  • Logo/Branding/Advertising, Web graphics, Manuals, Brochures, Interactive/Multimedia, 3D Models and Animations
  •  
  • Software Development
  • Windows CE Embedded XP/Firmware, Mobile Applications, C/C++, Clipper, Enterprise JavaBeans, J2EE, JBoss, Data transformation and migration