What we do
Box UK specialises in deep user-centred design together with comprehensive usability consulting, user research and testing, to deliver multi-channel experiences that respond to the specific motivations, behaviours and constraints of your audience.
Combining an in-depth understanding of users with best practice principles, our team of user experience consultants and designers deliver value at every stage of your project’s lifecycle, from initial problem-solving, wireframing and prototyping through to on-going optimisation and enhancements.
Quantitative and qualitative user research means that we’re able to base all our decisions on real-world requirements, and regular rounds of testing and feedback enable us to refine concepts and user interface designs as we go, providing you with maximum confidence while minimising waste and complexity.
Why choose Box UK?
Our team of user experience consultants and designers draws on decades of experience to help businesses achieve measurable returns from their digital investment and deliver against the goals of any digital transformation strategy they have in place, and act as strategic partners to an international roster of clients from our headquarters in the capital of Wales, offices in central London, and on-site as part of embedded teams.
We combine a UX agency skillset with a development heritage that enables us to not only deliver the very best in usability consultancy, but also make user experience recommendations that are immediately actionable by developers. This significantly shortens the time it takes to see results, allowing you to present dramatic improvements to performance and bottom-line returns quickly and efficiently.
User Experience Services
TBC Bank
Over the years, TBC Bank has relied upon Box UK to deliver a number of UX design projects that support them in their aim of providing the best multi-channel experience in the region.
Working closely with the financial institution, we’ve implemented a programme of strategic UX&D activity that has delivered a measurable, positive impact – including increasing the number of banking clients by a staggering 275%, and growing mobile penetration from 20% to 80% in just two years.
Middlesex University
To gain the rich qualitative insight Middlesex University required to assess the effectiveness of their website, we embarked on an extensive programme of laboratory usability testing.
Conducting sessions with four representative user groups across three different devices and multiple user journeys, we provided the educational institution with the user-centred insight needed to move its digital strategy forward, along with expert recommendations for further improvement and refinement.
Over more than two decades our team of UX professionals has built up an extensive portfolio of successfully-delivered projects, working with international organisations across a wide range of industries including:
- Ecommerce
- Public Sector
- Finance
- Education
- Membership
- And many more
"Box UK really understood how important it was to build a new customer experience into Predict!, helping us to evolve our platform to meet with changing needs."
Fiona Racher
Global Director, Business Development, Risk Decisions
FAQs
Why is UX important for business?
Investing in UX has been proven to deliver far-reaching and long-lasting benefits in user engagement and platform performance, as the best-designed products and services with the highest return on investment result from researching the needs, motivations, expectations, contexts and constraints of the people who will use them.
The better your users are able to navigate and interact with your products, the more popular and profitable they become. As such it’s vital that you select and implement the right digital tools in the right way to effectively serve your audience, and work to optimise key user journeys, information architecture, page designs, and other important elements across your various customer touchpoints to make them as intuitive and valuable as possible.
Delivering a great user experience should be a crucial consideration whether you’re launching a new product or are in the process of updating something that already exists, to ensure you’re continually responding to emerging needs and behaviours, for long-term return on investment.
What is User Centred Design?
User Centred Design (UCD) is an approach to delivering products and services that focuses on discovering user needs and placing them at the heart of the process, throughout the design and build journey and beyond. Analysis of user feedback patterns informs design and strategic decisions, and insight is gathered through consistent learning loops to support a move from subjective to objective decision-making.
User centred design has become an increasingly popular design methodology, as it enables potential issues to be identified and addressed early to reduce risk, increase confidence and avoid costly rework. It also enables a richer understanding of users to target both strategic and tactical decisions more effectively, boosting return on investment and business value.
At Box UK our UCD processes is complemented by the application of Design Thinking, a powerful tool to reframe problems in human-centric ways, create ideas through brainstorming and iterate deliverables via hands-on prototyping and testing.
Do I need a UX Designer or UX Consultant?
UX designers – also commonly known as User Interface (UI) designers – and UX consultants each have a distinct skillset, and the right role for your project will depend on your specific requirements and goals.
A UX / UI designer will provide you with designs for the interfaces by which users interact with your products and services. Good user interface design ensures that information is displayed in a logical and readable way, and supports users in their journey by highlighting key details, calls to action and next steps.
Skilled UI designers will also ensure that these designs take into account the specific capabilities, constraints and contexts of use of the interface, as well as additional considerations related to the audience demographic or geographic region being targeted.
UX consultants, by contrast, will look at all elements that make up the user’s experience of your brand, to ensure that this is seamless, valuable and enjoyable. Areas covered by UX design include user research, information architecture, accessibility, journey mapping and usability heuristics.
A UX agency will typically provide both UX and UI design services, and at Box UK our team draws on experience covering a full range of disciplines to create compelling solutions for our clients.
