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How we decide what to build, before building it
Two questions before any code: will people use it? What does it cost not to do it?
Where your users get stuck, and what it costs
IMPATH™ observes how your users actually behave and pinpoints the operational friction that costs the business the most.
- User research and behavioral psychology
- Information architecture and key flows
- Interfaces designed and measured by conversion
- Interactive prototyping validated with real users
- Design Systems and IMPATH™ methodology
The operational friction diagnostic
Within Digital Consulting (2 to 4 weeks), IMPATH™ is delivered as part of:
- IMPATH™ operational friction diagnostic
- Recommended technical architecture
- Backlog prioritized by financial impact
- Business case with projected ROI
- Cost of inaction calculation
Strategic clarity and measurable return before writing the first line of code.
Five principles, each with its proof
Each one comes with something you can run right here.
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Anti-commodity, not a body shop
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Certainty first: validate before coding
Check it: Calculate the cost of waiting with your own assumptions and with the formula in plain view.
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UX as armor and multiplier
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Decoupled architecture and data sovereignty
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Enterprise-grade security
Check it: The list of controls comes from measuring this very site at build time, and it includes what is still pending hardening.
See the measured controls
UX/UI in each of the four ways of working
The ways of working are independent; this is what the UX/UI & Product Strategy capability contributes in each one.
About IMPATH™ and FutureProof™
What is IMPATH™?
It is BluePixel’s proprietary methodology for understanding user behavior and detecting the friction that costs an operation the most. It is delivered as an operational friction diagnostic within Digital Consulting and serves as the basis for design in the other ways of working.
How do IMPATH™ and FutureProof™ relate?
IMPATH™ is the method for finding the friction that costs the most; FutureProof™ is the guarantee of how whatever comes out of that diagnostic is built. The five principles are on the FutureProof page.
What do I receive from an operational friction diagnostic?
An IMPATH™ operational friction diagnostic, the recommended technical architecture, a backlog prioritized by financial impact, a business case with projected ROI and the cost of inaction calculation.
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