Bit Group Collaborates on User Experience for Web 2.0 Entertainment Site
Information Architecture and User Experience design teams help OurStage build a ground-breaking interface
Cambridge, MA, September 7, 2007 - Bit Group Inc., a full-service technology consulting firm that helps clients make lasting and substantial improvements in their business performance, recognizes its user experience and information architecture teams for their collaboration with OurStage. OurStage.com is the only 100% democratic online competition that lets fans decide who’s best in emerging music and film. This Web 2.0 site comprises a radically new, innovative and entertaining user interface that allows users to share and judge media that is uploaded by contributing artists.
Through a series of collaborative on-site workshops, Bit Group worked closely with key stakeholders at OurStage to understand their vision and goals. OurStage and Bit Group’s key challenge through the wireframing process was to develop an intuitive and unique interface to allow viewing and ranking of media on the site. After completing a series of wireframes, OurStage went on to apply a visual and interaction design to the site, creating a dramatic and engaging Web site design.
“Bit Group’s user experience team has been an invaluable asset to OurStage in helping us to develop the initial user experience design and information architecture for our Web site, www.ourstage.com,” said Ben Campbell, CEO of OurStage. “The combination of Bit Group’s established user experience methodology and the caliber of their teams have been the foundation for the partnership between OurStage and Bit Group.”
“I was very pleased that Bit Group was selected to contribute our user-centered design methodology for OurStage,” said Steffan Berelowitz, President of Bit Group. “If you think about the key challenge of online media in the Web 2.0 world, it’s virtually impossible to find good quality. OurStage solved that problem with their unique algorithm, and we were thrilled to be a part of their user experience team.”
About Bit Group Inc. Founded in 1995, Bit Group provides complete business solutions for companies that understand the importance of the Web to create competitive advantage and market leadership. Bit Group works closely with clients to establish and meet clear, measurable business goals. Bit Group’s proven methodology consists of assessment, information architecture, design, and development and implementation phases of Web presence development. This comprehensive approach provides a framework for achieving the defined business goals for more than 270 projects in 11 years for 115 market-leading Fortune 500 companies and businesses such as Fidelity Investments, EMC Corporation and BJ’s Wholesale Club. Bit Group can be reached at http://www.bitgroup.com.
About OurStage, Inc. (www.ourstage.com) OurStage is the only purely democratic online competition where the fans decide who’s the best in emerging music, film and video. The OurStage mission is to help talented artists achieve critical exposure by solving the greatest challenge on the Internet today: sorting quality content from the sea of mediocrity online. OurStage provides a neutral, trusted, game-free platform, in which the true judgment of the fans drives the best content to the top. Through its wealth of partner programs, including Bonnaroo, Virgin Festival, Bumbershoot, Paste, CMJ, PLUG Awards, Pops on the Edge Fest, Slamdance, Relix, Gen Art, Noise Pop, Videomaker, IFFBoston, and many others, OurStage offers worthy artists real opportunities to actually launch their careers.