IconNicholson Process

Process

Experience in Five Industry Groups

Our years of creating innovative digital solutions have helped us forge a distinct way of thinking about solving your business challenges.

We recognize that our client's organizations and businesses are different, and accordingly, adapt our process to best support your needs.

In general, we develop our solutions using the IconProcess™ - our own agile customization of the industry-standard Rational Unified Process (RUP). We pay particular focus on user, business and technology requirements to help create our solutions.

The IconProcess™ is a four-phase, iterative process. Achieving specific milestones and producing actionable plans, deliverables or working prototypes mark the completion of each phase.

What does The IconProcess™ mean for our clients? That the solutions we create are on time. They're on budget. And they're always compelling and intuitive for your users, invigorating for your business, and delivered through reliable and innovative technology.

Our process works like this:

# 01
Inception

Develop strategies and define project scope

  • Business, marketing, branding strategies
  • User research report
  • Use case model
  • Creative concept or brief
  • Define ROI model

# 02
Elaboration

Design a compelling user experience and establish a stable, executable software architecture

  • Requirements
  • Visual design development
  • Information architecture
  • User experience prototype
  • Usability test results
  • Software architecture

# 03
Construction

Design, build, and validate the remaining functionality

  • Remaining software development
  • Final content, art, and rich media assets
  • Tested codes
  • Deployment plan

# 04
Transition

Conduct acceptance tests, roll out, and follow up

  • Acceptance test results
  • Rollout results
  • Site statistics and performance results