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Tellart is a design firm specializing in Web, Mobile, and Embedded product and service development. Tellart works closely with product manufacturers, retailers, architects, and inventors to research, conceptualize, design, engineer, and prototype new products, projects, and mixed reality experiences.

Over a decade we have developed a method of working closely with clients during the innovation process. One of our core strengths is our ability to facilitate research, understanding, decision making, and consensus building through the use of participatory design principles and visual diagrams. We have built a platform of hardware and software toolkits called Sketchtools which allows us to rapidly model working prototypes of interactive products.

Our unique team of industrial and graphic designers, hardware and software engineers are able to take interactive product and experience design ideas from research to manufacture. Our interfaces go beyond the keyboard, mouse, and screen. They sense motion, light, sound, GPS and RFID, and all kinds of stimuli; they communicate back to participants through all of the human senses.

We are sometimes hired to drive a project from the outside, and sometimes hired to work collaboratively with in-house teams to develop concepts and prototypes internally. We also offer partnerships and workshops to corporations and schools wishing to use physical computing materials and methods to facilitate collaboration between research, marketing, design and engineering.

CORE CAPABILITIES:

Visual planning and analysis
  • Systems analysis and user observation
  • Exploration and explanation of digital/human    systems through diagrams
  • Rapid interface prototyping for user testing
  • Animation and video visual explanations

Experience Design: Information, Objects and Architecture
  • Sketch-modeling of interactive systems
  • Graphical user interface design
  • Physical user interface design
  • Product Design
  • Service Design
  • Mixed reality experience design (natural, material, virtual: objects, architecture, networks)


Electronic systems prototyping
  • Analog and digital circuit and PCB design
  • Small-run manufacturing management
  • Micro-controller firmware development
  • Application programming for embedded operating systems

Web and mobile software development
  • Commonly used platforms: PHP, MySQL, Flash/ActionScript, Java SE and Java ME, XHTML/CSS, Python, Ruby on Rails
  • Design for browser, media player, OS, and device: compatibility and Accessibility
  • Network communication design and development