An Iterative Approach to Success
Not many projects begin with unlimited budgets and fully staffed teams. An MVP is often a smart way to get started. Our approach allows us to verify assumptions, satisfy stakeholders, and create buy-in.
Expertise
We specialize in the tough to tackle, the stalled out, and the don’t know where to start. We’re problem solvers, partnering with our clients to create transformative web experiences.
The Right Team at the Right Time
Successful products usually require flexible, multidisciplinary teams, and that can be hard (or expensive) to staff internally. Sparkbox can support your team with the skills you need exactly when they'll be most valuable.
The Design System Experts
Sparkbox has been working with design systems for almost a decade. We have strategic, UX/UI, and technical expertise that allows us to create and evolve successful systems alongside our clients.
UX & Experience Design
Digital products should be driven by the needs of the end user, so we put a lot of effort into getting to the bottom of what those needs are. This allows us to create user interfaces and functionality that exceed expectations and support measurable results.
Strategic Planning
- Audience definition
- Requirements gathering
- Evaluations and audits
- Data and research analysis
- Recommendations
- Roadmapping
User-Focused Solutions
- Interviews
- User research and analysis
- Journey mapping
- Information architecture
- Wireframing
- Usability testing
- Application and design system planning
Visual & Interactive Design
- Concept design
- UI design
- Design systems
- User testing
- Rapid prototyping
- Animation
Development
Sparkbox was founded by software engineers and has been focused on building a better web for more than 15 years. Our expertise is both broad and deep which allows us to bring creativity and consultative thinking to our clients. Technology is changing constantly, and a big part of our job is continual learning.
Standards-Based Fundamentals
- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React, Vue, Angular, React Native)
- Versatile backends (e.g. Node, Go, PHP)
Flexible Experiences
- API development
- Architecture consulting
- Micro frontends
- Monorepos (e.g. NX, Lerna)
- UI tooling (e.g. Bootstrap, Tailwind, Twig, Handlebars)
Safer Automated Shipping
- Build and deploy pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Netlify, AWS)
- Testing suites (e.g. Cypress, Lighthouse, aXe, Jest, Percy, RTL, Linting)
Quality & Growth
Sparkbox builds a culture of quality everywhere we go. Our team of expert designers, developers, and project managers will build your product (and support your team) with an accessible, collaborative, and effective product mindset—no matter what your work includes.
System Builds
- Custom applications
- Content management systems (e.g. Contentful, WordPress, Drupal, AEM)
- Design system tooling (e.g. Storybook, NPM, zeroheight)
- Design system documentation sites
- Workflow and cadence design
Team Collaboration
- Internal team training and workshops
- Documentation
- Agile methodologies
- Product roadmapping
Product Quality
- Accessibility validation
- Usability testing
- Design and code reviews
- Continual testing and validation