“We wanted to push the boundaries as far as possible and make our site as accessible as possible while retaining a high standard of design and aesthetics. We found Designed for All the perfect partners.”

NESTA

About us

Designed for All is a leading research advisory specialising in User Experience design. It was set up by Fraser Hamilton with operational support from Pete Pavan in order to make online technology easier to use for all. We work with organisations of all sizes and from all industry sectors, particularly blue-chip multinationals and government units.

With close relationships to research organisations throughout Europe, we keep clients fully up-to-speed with the latest User Experience developments.

The core team at Designed for All comprises Director Fraser Hamilton, Principal Interaction Designer Pete Pavan and Neil King who are active practitioners and researchers in the User Experience and HCI field. In addition to regularly managing and successfully delivering User Experience Projects, we regularly contribute publications and report our research in international conferences and journals. Indeed, Professor Helen Petrie, our Director of Research leads the Human-Computer Interaction research group at the University of York and we have strong links with a range of research institutions.

Examples of projects we have worked on include:

• Developing accessible Electronic Programme Guides
• E-Learning applications for learning European languages
• Multimedia e-Books
• Advising web development teams on Department of Culture, Media and Sports funded-projects
• Surveys into website accessibility
• Developing benchmarking methodologies for the European Commission
• Developing principles for user interface design