Common Web Services Panel

Chrometoaster is proud to be included on the New Zealand Government Common Web Services Panel for the second time. We have in-depth information architecture, UX and visual design experience, coupled with open-source development capability for large-scale websites and apps.

Our focus is on creating long-term business value for you by delivering high-quality work from end to end.

• User insight
• Content design
• Information architecture
• Analytics and SEO
• Visual design
• Front-end development
• Back-end development
• Native App development

Strategy & planning

The future of business will be heavily influenced by new technologies, social interaction and complex market trends. Chrometoaster calls upon a decade of online experience to help organisations assert themselves in this environment.

Our strategy and planning team can help you with:

• Customer insight
• Online strategy
• Technology strategy
• Requirements definition
• Search engine optimisation (SEO)
• Analytics strategy
• Social media strategy

Brand development

Styles change, style doesn't. Maintaining a modern, relevant brand takes exceptional effort, whilst being likable goes well beyond asking someone to 'like' you. Chrometoaster will work with you to develop a unique, successful, user-centric brand that will thrive across all channels.

We have expertise in the following areas:

• Brand strategy
• Brand identity design
• Brand guideline creation

User experience design

You know that old saying about the customer always being right - well, it hasn't changed one bit. Nowadays, the integrity of your brand reputation relies on your users' overall brand experience. Synergy between your 'online' and 'offline' offerings is no longer optional - it's essential. Chrometoaster takes a holistic approach to improving your customers' user experience.

Our team can help your brand's user experience by providing:

• Content analysis
• Audience analysis and profiling
• Information architecture (IA) and prototyping
• Experience analytics
• Web design
• Web application design
• Usability testing, reporting and analysis
• Accessibility standards (e-Government)
• Social media strategy implementation

Technology & delivery

Chrometoaster produces highly interactive and accessible user interfaces with a focus on performance. Unlike many creative agencies, we are full-blooded technologists. In our world, art is nothing without engineering. We're technology agnostic, and although there's a ton of ingenuity in our technical implementations, we firmly believe it should be transparent to the naked eye. We are happy to work with third party technology providers where it suits our clients, and have produced great things this way.

Technologies we work with include:

• Front-end development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a focus on performance and accessibility
• Back-end development using open source technologies including PHP, Ajax, JSON, XML, APIs
• SilverStripe CMS, Common Web Platform and SilverStripe Platform
• Mobile devices
• Apple registered iPhone App developer
• Android application development

Web video & audiovisual production

Video is integral to communication and story telling on the web. We offer a full range of audiovisual production expertise, scaleable for projects of all sizes:

• Professionally produced short or long form HD video
• Educational & health resources
• Animation & visual effects
• Interactive video installations 
• Voiceover & audio production
• Content development, scripting & casting
• Production management
• Integration of video into web-based applications & mobile devices

Print design

While we specialise in creative technology, we offer a full service to ensure your brand is expressed across all mediums. Our designers are experienced in all aspects of print design from business cards to book layouts, posters to printed games, and we can manage the process from concepts to the final product.

Our service includes:

• Graphic design
• Art direction
• Production management