usability, user experience consulting

We are a team of user experience professionals who like to make things easier for people to use. We also think things should be made as simple and engaging as possible. There are measurable human and monetary benefits to a good experience – making things better for all of us. That’s real progress.

Progress Happenings

Improving Usability article
Jon-Eric Steinbomer, Progress principal and director of usability engineering is featured as an expert guest contributor on FreshThinking, the blog of Ontario-based FreshBooks online billing. In the article, Jon-Eric presents a "back to basics" refresher on software usability for designers of interactive products..

Social Networking design
Progress is designing the information architecture and interactions for Key Ingredient - a social networking recipe site that allows cooks to preserve and share their recipes with others.
Open Source Framework Human Interface Guidelines
We've partnered with ConocoPhillips to develop a set of evolving Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for their GeoCraft open source geophysical software package - " a lightweight framework for rapidly prototyping and deploying new geoscience algorithms."

Client Testimonials

"Progress has provided us with valuable guidance and solid research regarding the usability and functionality of our website. We have seen immediate results."

Dirk Van Slyke, Director of Marketing
American Medical ID

"We would recommend Progress to anyone. Besides producing outstanding work, they’re easy to work with and down to earth. You don’t find that a lot."

Andrew Conn, Partner and Creative Director
Fluxx Email Marketing

"We liked working with Progress so much that we are going to be using them as our de-facto usability experts on our major online initiatives for 2008."

Paul Laster, Electronic Marketing Content Manager
The Scooter Store