Cogapp helps clients do digital media and user experience projects.
We build websites, interactive installations and next-generation mobile applications. Our clients, who commission this work, have varying needs. In some cases they just need us to provide specialist technology and design. Others are more demanding and where necessary we can call on over twenty years experience to provide project planning, editorial, operations, marketing, management, advertising; whatever it takes to make the project a success.
We also provide user experience services. These include user testing, user-centred design, information architecture and digital strategy consulting. We use these services in our own work and we offer them to clients for their projects. In our view, you can only do good work in digital media if you pay serious attention to user experience and take a user-centric approach.
It's a competitive world. Many companies do similar things. What sets Cogapp apart is our unique experience of large-scale, mission-critical projects and our commitment, in everything we do, to produce work that is well-conceived, beautifully executed and thoroughly engaging; work that will enrich the lives of the people who use it and create exceptional long-term value for our clients.
The Cogapp team currently features thirty friendly professional staff who share more than two hundred years of high-level experience. We operate nationally and internationally from an office in Brighton and an outpost in New York. An extensive network of associates provides additional services.
Cogapp's clients include several household names with a particular emphasis on museums and social enterprises. Recent assignments include projects for the British Museum, the BBC, the Home Office, Macmillan Cancer Support, Prudential and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Our work has won numerous awards.
To find out more about us, including our design and technical capabilities and our capacity for innovation, please see our portfolio and our blog.
User Experience
Our rigorous and practical approach to user research puts your audience at the heart of what we do. We combine user testing, ethnographic research, information architecture and interaction design techniques, all informed by practical experience delivering working systems.
The result is a process that ensures you get measurably better results. We have an observation studio in our office and a mobile studio for doing work on client sites. We can have regular arrangements with commercial studios in London and New York. Our recent research and thinking on user experience can be seen on our blog.
Design
Our design ethos is simple: to embrace creative ideas that connect you to your audience. We do this by integrating creativity with innovative technology, helping you to articulate the values and spirit of your organisation. Our designers are multi-disciplined and widely experienced. They work on projects ranging from consultancy and identity through to websites and interactive installations. Please see our portfolio for some samples of their work.
Technology
We take an agnostic but passionate approach to technology. Our experience with many different languages, applications and platforms is combined with a never-ending search for new tools. This search is driven by our need to create ever more effective solutions for our clients and more compelling experiences for their users. We understand that the constraints that are most important are often not technical but social, and we are adept at choosing and combining technologies to meet our clients' needs.
Production
Cogapp's projects are managed within the framework of our creative methodology. This has been honed over more than twenty years of practice on large-scale projects. It is engaging, user-centric and easy to understand. Our PRINCE2-certified project managers work with clients, using this methodology, to find innovative approaches that make the best use of all available assets and resources. Our mission is to deliver results that meet all the constraints of time, budget and process, that are a joy to look at, a pleasure to use and a source of long-term value.
