My project focus is on the user experience, usability and accessibility. I deal with aspects of a project between the graphical design and development, such as the redevelopment of navigation systems, making web sites easier to use.
This is a sample of the scope of my expertise:
The journey for PetRescue started a few years ago, with a casual conversation at a Leederville coffee shop, slowly it became on an ongoing project that’s often been constrained by time and budgetary resources during the time period.
The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) approached radharc looking for a solid direction and confirmation of the user experience issues with the core of their website.
Moving for a basis of only internal knowledge we expanded the research base from a strategic direction to task based specifics from collaboration of the relevant audience industries. Finalising with a a clear direction for areas of improvement on the site with an overall clarity of the audience requirements.
The Genetic Support Council of WA (GSCWA) approached our Principal, Gary Barber, with a concern. They were considering a redesign of their existing website, and they didn’t want to end up with another inaccessible unusable site. They needed to ensure, their large and diverse audience with genetic conditions would be forgotten in the design and development process.
This is where we stepped in to fill the gap as the avocate for their users and the level of accessibility required.
Scitech has a reasonably detailed website but they lacked the clarity of direction and understanding of the site’s audience.
They elected to review their site, instead of starting the usual web design process – throwing out the existing site and redesigning, without a review of the current issues.
This site started from very simple idea; just a seed of an idea that the client had.
An idea to build a career site to promote the records and information management industry and it’s benefits to high school leavers as well as people changing careers in their mid twenties.
Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) approached us with a web site in the final stages of development.
At this point in time the EPA had a reasonable investment in the new web site. As one would expect, this was not without some reasonable level of expectation that the site would meet all the level of it’s requirements of the EPA, their stakeholders and customers.
The Norgifieds is an interesting project as it not generally the type of site that people think they would need an information architect for.
Options21 are share and options trading education specialists; they have a unique aspect to their business in that it is totally online. Every aspect of their business reflects a very modern viewpoint of the information age. They have embraced and have taken into account the dramatic cost savings of operating their business online from accounts, crm and service delivery. This has allowed them to increase their customer service delivery to a highly personalised level.
West Coast Tafe approached us with a series of issues on where to place the content, and the navigation of their upcoming new web site. The major requirement was for the content to be findable by current and prospect students, however all this had to be delivered in a shorter than usual timeframe.
The previous Challenger Institute of Technology web site was couched in a legacy web site. With a site structure and navigation that was making it impossible for even the incumbent staff to find any information concerned, let alone the audience.
We knew time was short, so looking into our bag of designer tricks, we decide to use a rapid design and development process.
As a business Theta Healing presented a number of unique opportunities in terms of web design and development. The nature of this web site is appealing to a very distinct audience with a high degree of emotional attachment. This presented a number of issues in the visual design and presentation on the sensitive nature of the topic of supplementary healing.
Radharc is an independent user experience consultancy based in Perth, Western Australia, working with medium to large enterprises, government, NGOs and freelancing to various digital agencies.
It’s centered around the Principal Gary Barber, he can help you plan, research, structure and design your interface requirements focused on your customers by ensuring an enhanced degree of user experience, usability and accessibility.
