Combining the Art and Science of User Interface Design

User Interface design is an art. It's about good communication and aesthetic judgement. About finding a delicate balance in a scheme that guides your customer by the hand, but doesn't squeeze too hard.

User Interface design is a science. The designer needs to talk shop with your engineers to understand the constraints. The development environment provides both opportunities and limitations for the user interface. The designer must be well-connected with those realities to produce viable results.

Finding that rare designer or engineer with the right combination of skills to design a user interface is important. After all, consumers of today's software solutions demand high standards in ease of use, clarity, and elegance in how they interact with software.

The Mernyk Design Advantage

Prior to founding Mernyk Design in 1999, Paul Mernyk was a software engineer for 18 years, helping to design and develop a wide variety of desktop applications, including the Pagis Pro scanning suite, Harvard Graphics, Dashboard, and HP NewWave. At the same time, he had worked professionally as a graphic designer and illustrator, and did much of the artwork and layout for the software products he helped to develop.

This broad range of expertise means that Mernyk Design can offer a more complete package of services to its clients, providing technically grounded interaction design, in tandem with the kind of graphic design our audience has come to expect.

You may be starting from scratch in developing a Windows application, or putting the finishing touches on a web-based solution. Mernyk Design can help make your product easy to use, and give it a world-class look and feel.

Take a look at some samples of our work, and the various services we can offer to your project. Please contact us to provide a bid for your job, or to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for visiting!