Services

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We deliver tools that support your most critical business goals.

Product management

From initial product vision, design, build, and launch through ongoing iteration of your site over time, we support you through the entire lifecycle of your product. In partnership with you, we build a roadmap that’s focused on high-impact efforts.

We don’t take shots in the dark. We look to analytics to define our strategic initiatives and measure the impact of the decisions we make. We deploy statistical analysis, testing, and machine learning alongside industry-standard tools like Google Analytics, BigQuery, Looker, Snowplow, Snowflake, and Tableau.

We field surveys, conduct in-depth interviews, and hold roundtables to gain a deep understanding of your users, their preferences, and motivations. We translate our findings into product recommendations that we’re confident will move you closer to your goals.

An intuitive content management system (CMS) is paramount to your success. We couple our builds with customized training to ensure your team is getting the most out of their new publishing platform.

Best-in-class tools and processes are only as good as the content they help you deliver. Our team puts fresh, experienced eyes on your writing — auditing for consistency, voice and tone, imagery, and graphics.

We employ a data-based approach to determine where and how your site can benefit from ad slots, gated or sponsored content, and various subscription models that increase revenue.

UX design

User-centric, agile, and component-based: These are the hallmarks of our UX design practice. The intuitive experiences we design are both beautiful and functional, and our iterative approach means you get a higher-quality product faster — and at a lower cost.

Inclusive design isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s good business. Accessible design ensures more visitors can engage with your website (and improves your SEO). We routinely implement sites to meet the WCAG 2.1 AA standard, compliant with Section 508.

We bring data to life with interactive visualizations that increase reach and impact. We blend our excellence in development with heightened visual design and data analysis, empowering audiences to explore and interpret data more easily. 

Our design systems prioritize reusable patterns. This makes it easy for your team to create scalable, custom, user-centric layouts and content while maintaining consistency across all your sites. 

After an in-depth brand discovery, our design team will concept different visual solutions for your brand. Once we’ve established a memorable brand identity, our team will implement a comprehensive style guide that empowers writers, designers, developers — anyone contributing to your brand — to uphold the fundamental elements of your organization’s identity consistently and confidently.  

We kick the tires of our own work. We work with you to identify and recruit participants who represent existing or aspirational user groups. Using a series of tools and assessment methods, we’ll evaluate the impact of various site features and identify areas for improvement.  

Your website is your product and, thereby, an extension of your brand. The design must amplify who you are by authentically representing your brand’s tone and other defining characteristics.

Development

Our expertise lies in how we think about technology (not just in the lines of code we write). We embrace the challenge of working with new platforms and building novel products because we’re passionate about the momentum in our industry. We work tirelessly to keep your tech stack balanced between cutting-edge and stable, proven technologies to ensure your digital tools are reliable and evolve with your shifting needs and ambitious goals.

At Alley, we partner with many organizations that depend on timely and accurate data. Our team is deeply experienced in leveraging application programming interfaces (APIs) to seamlessly integrate your website with other services or data warehouses across your infrastructure.

A well-built content management system (CMS) provides your team with a robust platform for years to come. Our most widely used platform, WordPress, uses a block-based editor for easy customization and layouts. We tailor this editor to provide editors with simple and fluid tools that give them power and flexibility within a walled garden that supports brand consistency.

Your content archives hold the key to your business’s reputation and reach. Ensuring that content is delivered with precision and efficiency is paramount to the success of your new site. We’ll partner with you to audit and remap your content according to your new site architecture, ensuring a smooth and secure transfer of your content in all its forms, whether your content counts in the thousands or millions.

Decoupled, or “headless,” architecture is an option to separate the technology stack that your end users experience from the CMS platform that your production team uses. This approach can provide tremendous power and flexibility, from operating the user-facing website as a “single page application” (SPA) to sourcing the website’s content from multiple platforms. At Alley, we take pride in using the best tool for the job, whether that’s a coupled or decoupled architecture. 

CMS customization starts with learning about your editorial workflow. From there, we determine what out-of-the-box features, configurations, and custom features will streamline your workflow to ensure a flexible, simple, and productive system for your editorial team.

In building a long-term partnership, our team anticipates and proactively manages the evolving needs of your website technology so that you’re always equipped with the latest tools and best practices.

Let’s talk about how we can put our talents to work for you.

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