Think. Design. Build.

With any client, our goal is the same: to understand and internalize the challenges our clients are facing. It’s a prerequisite to delivering great work.

Richard Ziade Partner, Lead Strategist, Arc90

Arc90 is founded on a very basic premise: to deliver great technology solutions, sound strategy and great design must be part of the process. Based in New York City, we’re a team of thinkers, strategists, designers, architects and engineers — all sharing a common passion towards design and technology.

We work with clients faced with challenging problems: competitive pressures, stagnating products or stalled development efforts. We also work with clients seeking to infuse innovation and revitalize their existing technology roadmap. Our strategists partner with you to execute at all stages of the process, including strategy, design, architecture and development.

The real puzzles — the real problems we’re trying to solve — should rarely arise when we’re building. Once you’re in development, opportunities are slim. The key is to present these challenges during the stages of strategy and design, when the cost of change is low and the potential for innovation is high.

Tim Meaney Partner, Lead Strategist, Arc90

In 2009, we released Kindling, our first product. Kindling is an idea collaboration tool developed to discover and nurture our own great ideas. Kindling is a great example of our ability to take a vision from concept to blueprint and finally to actual product. Today, Kindling is a key part of Arc90’s culture, and now is transforming how other companies nurture innovation as well.

You can find examples of our work on our Work page and our Lab. The lab is a place where we share our innovative experiments as well as tools and libraries to the Open Source community.

If you’d like to join our conversations on design, technology, and innovation, be sure to visit the Arc90 blog.

Strategy
Engagement & Communication
Requirements Gathering
Identification of Goals
Project Definition & Plan
Product Roadmap
Milestone Definition
Design
Visual & Interaction Design
Contextual Design
Information Architecture
Wireframes / Comps
User–experience Design
Prototyping
Development
System Architecture
API & Web Services Design
Web–standards Compliant
Java, PHP, .Net
Rich-Web, Flex/Flash
SQL & XML