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Intuitive and easy-to-use user experience design services that get you to market faster and reduces internal costs

Planorama Design is a user experience (UX) design professional services partner that ensures your customers can quickly pick up and use your software with ease.  Founded by an engineer with a long technology career spanning semiconductors, hardware, software, and IT, our team of no-nonsense, seasoned UX designers and engineers accelerate your software projects while reducing costs.

Whether releasing combined hardware and software solutions, pure software, EDA, IoT applications, or Software as a Service (SaaS), talk to us first.

Actual quotes from our clients:

“You’ve created documentation that saves me hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on development.  It’s so detailed that our development teams can implement it right the first time.”

“Your documentation is perfect. This is the best feature definition specification I’ve ever seen.”

“I’ve been doing this for 25 years, and Planorama is the best team I’ve ever worked with. They’re sophisticated and understand the need to create multiple scenarios beyond a simple wire frame.”

“Their approach to UX design and documentation is way beyond most UX design companies. Our development teams loved it!”

What is your current challenge?

Some of the commercial and operational challenges we address are:

• Building a new SaaS or installed software product
• Customers say your existing software is difficult to use
• You’re losing sales and/or customers because of your software
• Customers require significant training and/or support
• Your software development releases are late
• Development budgets are blown
• Development teams are distracted by designing the look & feel of your software

How does Planorama help?

Intuitive Software Design:  Even if your software is bug-free, if users can’t use it, it doesn’t work.  We leverage modern, well-understood design patterns as well as research from psychology and human factors to improve the quality of your software product. The result is software with an intuitive UI according to your users’ ways of thinking.

Accelerated Development:  Planorama delivers organized, complete requirements to your development team: visual requirements as high-fidelity screen designs, business rules detailed in thorough, feature-by-feature requirements documentation, and test documentation that describes the test cases necessary to validate each feature’s functionality. Developers become highly efficient as they know exactly what to build, and your software is accelerated to market.

Reduced Costs:  Software development team labor costs are the biggest part of most software project budgets.  Planorama makes your dev team vastly more efficient by delivering solid requirements into their backlog. Our dev-ready requirements are thorough, clear and detailed, enabling the dev team to advance with confidence and full understanding.  In addition, organized, thorough internal product documentation significantly speeds up the process of onboarding new team members (or entire teams).

What professional services does Planorama provide?

• Software application feature strategy, scoping, and rapid prototyping
• User research, user experience, and user interface design services 
• Organized, dev-ready product requirements documentation for software development teams
• QA test case documentation to accelerate software quality testing

How does Planorama engage as a user experience design partner?

We engage with your product leads and software development team to hone a well-understood scope, define any technical risks to be mitigated early, and then design the workflows and screens according to your customers’ needs.  Whether you already have a software development team or need one (we can refer trusted external dev teams), we roll up our sleeves and join you as one team throughout the duration of the project.  

Planorama uses a modern, iterative design process that engages stakeholders often, increasing the probability of your success and reducing the risk of wasted efforts.  Our dev-ready deliverables include well-organized, thorough design documentation, feature by feature, ensuring your dev team can execute quickly without stalling for requirements. Likewise, we provide test case documentation that ensures your QA team knows exactly how to thoroughly test each developed feature to prevent bugs from getting out the door.

Reach out

It’s much better to have a conversation to discuss how we can help.  Reach out on our website contact form, and we’ll respond quickly to set up a free consultative phone call.

Visit us at https://www.planorama.design