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Hiring WebTigers
What does a UI consultant cost?
A WebTigers UI consultant costs about the same as good Java or .NET developer.
Tools of the Trade.
Our clients generally ask us, “What tools do I need to provide a WebTigers consultant? Do we need to buy Photoshop or other tools?”
The short answer to this questions is, No. Most IT departments are usually not setup for UI development. WebTigers consultants arrive at your site fully equipped with our own notebook computers and development tools.
Images.
WebTigers will also provide stock image selection, if needed, from our own accounts with various online image libraries. There is usually a small fee for each of these images based on size. Most images can be purchased for website use for less than a few dollars per image.
Proper image selection is a very important part of the UI design. If you have unprofessional-looking images, it will degrade the site’s look and appeal. Our professionals will select images from a variety of sources that will make your application or product look its best.
The UI Professional
You do your job exceptionally well, let us do ours.
Every WebTigers consultant is a highly skilled specialist. We have several years experience in graphic design, interface layout, communications, UI coding and we are up to speed with the latest developments in Web 2.0 technologies. Our goal is to help your company create the absolutely best product and application possible.
What most IT shops fail to realize is that the front-end is absolutely the most important part of the application. Yet all too often the UI is the most neglected part of the application. It’s the most neglected because, frankly, it’s also the most difficult part of the application to do well and no one really want’s to deal with it. Typically, only the very best and most experienced project managers will adequately budget for the UI.
However, it is the UI that “drives” (or should be driving) the entire application. You can have the greatest “back end” Java / Oracle application known to mankind, but if the user is stumped or confused or irritated by the UI, all your hard work and efforts will make your engineering staff look like amateurs.
Not just a pretty face.
On occasion we work with clients who have a manager or lead engineer who thinks they can do what we do. If your team members could really do what we do, then you wouldn’t be reading this right now. Our goal is to help our clients understand professional UI. We guide you through our processes and reasons for doing what we do.
Our goal is to make your team shine just as much on the front-end as they do on the back-end.
Some clients come to WebTigers after their project is well underway because they just want to put a pretty face on an already ugly application. Bringing WebTigers into your project this late in the game is likely to yield some functional change requests you should be prepared to work though. There’s a very good chance we’ll need to do much more than just update your graphics.
We’ve worked with client’s who have said, quote, “We want some serious lipstick on this.” The problem with this kind of mindset is that even the best graphic design will not rescue a poorly engineered UI, and we will tell you if you have a poorly engineered UI and what you will need to do to make it both look and work professionally.