Kula Partners

Design + Development

Interfaces that encourage exploration and systems that facilitate interaction.

Design is so much more than making pretty pictures. It’s about helping your audience achieve their goals. Creating easy access to important information. Making forms that are actually enjoyable to fill out. We obsess over the smallest typographic and graphical details to ensure that the experience is seamless and the content and strategic goals come to the fore.

At the same time, we think web design and programming should be beautiful. While everyone likes a different shade of purple, our pragmatic approach puts your audience first and makes every click on the journey enjoyable.

Services

Interface Design

We create interfaces that achieve brand goals, while enabling conversation to flourish. Our belief is that simple and functional doesn’t have to be ugly. We’re information designers too—we love a complex information mapping problem and our wireframing and architecture techniques yield sites that just work for end users.

Web Standards-Based Front End Development

It shouldn’t need to be said in this day and age, but front end development using standards-compliant tableless layouts is still the best way to create easy-to-use sites that rank well in terms of organic search. We use less code and keep content and style separate. Just like Zeldman wants us to.

Back-end Development

As important as interface design is, without solid programming, you’re just spinning your wheels. Our development experts work in the latest open source tools to create back ends that are easy to use and functional. After all, if it’s no fun to add content to your site, you’re probably less likely to keep it up to date.

Print

Print’s not dead it just deserves to die. That is, unless it makes perfect sense to use traditional offline media to drive traffic to your site or support your strategy. Our design team gets print too. And we still love the smell of fresh ink in the morning.