Expert User Experience & Strategy Consulting for Real Results

     

Our Mission: Be Effective, Useful & Engaging

We’re passionate about the value of great user experience & thoughtful digital product strategy as *imperatives* for success.   We help our clients differentiate & delight users with products that are:  
  • Effective: Ensures the product achieves business goals for revenue, traffic, conversions and repeat engagement
  • Useful: Delivers an intuitive, easy, and functional user experience that prioritizes essential features and content from the user’s perspective
  • Engaging: Attracts and delights audiences by giving them exactly what they want, when they need it, building brand loyalty
We work with startups & Fortune 100 companies on mobile & tablet apps, SAAS services, HTML5 sites, transactional software, ecommerce, publishing platforms and more. If your business is digital, we can help.    

Our Services

Specialized Strategy & UX Consulting

We don’t do it all- we’re focused specialists and industry leaders with 15 years of experience and extensive professional training. Our services include:  
  • Product Strategy
  • Creative Concepting, Ideation & Prototyping
  • "Lean" Customer Development & User Testing
  • The full range of Usability, Information Architecture & UX
  • Requirements Analysis & Definition
  • Product Planning & Management
  • Content Strategy & Taxonomies
  • SEO, Analytics Analysis, Graphic Design, front-end dev. and Social campaigns as they relate to the UX and Product strategy
  • Learn more about our services >
 

WHY DO I NEED THIS?

We help ensure you launch a targeted, high-quality product that achieves user, product and business goals. We work with management, designers and developers (or our specialty partners) in an immersive, hands-on relationship. Read what our clients say > We can all list some terrible digital user experiences (there are lots of them)-- it's much harder to know exactly how to improve them or create a good experience from scratch. Considered, well-executed UX creates low-friction, useful, engaging and results-oriented digital experiences that deliver.   User Experience and Information Architecture also require specialized skills, analytical and creative ability, knowledge of the latest tech trends, and an ability to understand and merge business strategy with technology, design and content. That's also where we differ- our focus is on business goals and ensuring product deliverables support the business strategy.      

WHAT IS USER EXPERIENCE, ANYWAY?

blueprintGood question- even UX professionals struggle to define it precisely. The UX specialist is the architect of the digital experience. Just like a building architect creates blueprints of a building before it’s built, and then the engineer and contractor further specify and build it, so user experience specialists conceptualize, define and plan digital products and services- what these products are, who uses them and how, how they will function, how the user interacts with them, the sequence and priority of user actions, content and features, and how all the components fit together. Learn More about UX >

UPCOMING 2012 OTV UX EVENTS

OTV is involved with coordinating a number of UX events for 2012, including:

  • UX Prototyping and Rapid Wireframing Tools NYCCHI & IXDA present a panel of the top UX prototyping tools on the market on Feb 21 2012. Register Now
  • Test My App! OTV leads a workshop on informal user testing and customer development. Bring your app, prototype or site and get ready for feedback!
  • Lean UX Roundtable What is Lean UX and how is it different from traditional UX methods? There is no consensus. Come learn different perspectives from senior Agile & Lean UX practitioners.

2012 USER EXPERIENCE AWARDS

UX Awards LogoOxford Technology Ventures, LLC is a proud founder, organizer and sponsor of the User Experience Awards. The June 2012 User Experience Awards will be accepting submissions beginning in March. Stay Tuned!
The inaugural awards in June 2011 were a smashing success, with sold-out attendance. OTV's founder, Beverly, hosted & moderated the Awards. Watch the event videos

UX LEADERSHIP: NYC-CHI

OTV's founder, Beverly May, is also President of NYC-CHI (New York City Computer Human Interaction group), the oldest and largest User Experience Group in New York, with over 1800 members and an active mailing list for UX related jobs, events and news.

What we’re reading

Lean StartupThe Lean Startup by Eric Ries
The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin
Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
The Agile Samurai by Jonathan Rasmusson
Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn
Do More Faster by David Cohen and Brad Feld