Applications & Other Stuff

Many of the practices that are well established on the web are sadly often overlooked in application development. That makes business applications unintuitive, hard to use and just plain ineffective. More and more, people expect simple, effortless experiences from the online tools they use to do their jobs. When that’s not the case, compliance is curtailed and productivity plummets. When users expect Google and get meshugaas instead, it’s just bad for business.

From web widgets to mission-critical enterprise applications, ExNihilo’s user-centered design approach means we build solutions that are simple, intuitive, attractive, easy and effective. Knowledge management, content management, business intelligence tools, digital asset management, mobile and tablet tools – they’re how you do business and they need to work. Period.

We work in a time of outsourcing, extreme programming, budget cuts, compliance issues, competitive urgency, increased security and myriad other pressures. All these demands add complexity to development projects and make success more and more difficult. Whether implementing “off-the-shelf” products or doing custom application development, you need to connect with your users in their environments, in a way that’s easy for them. If you don’t, they just won’t go along. They’ll need lots of support. Things will break. It will cost you money and give you migraines. And no one wants those.

Good news: we work cheerfully with both IT departments and business managers, providing the rigor and process your IT department needs, along with the business savvy, strategy and user-focused perspective your business needs. The result: elegant, lightweight, usable applications that meet deadlines, budgets and business requirements. And all while conforming to your organization’s increasingly stringent IT, compliance, security and development standards.

Online Presence

Your websites and online applications are arguably some of the most important assets your organization has. With each passing minute, they’re either helping or harming your business – neglect them at your peril!