useful studios

good design is useful.

Useful Studios is a design firm focused on improving
the usefulness of web sites, software, printed media, and environments. We offer solutions in five areas:

Web design. User interfaces, information architecture, content management, web application and database development, informed by business goals and user desires.

Print design. Print design that considers all components in the project stream: readers, publishers, writers, and printers.

Information design. There is real value in understanding. We convert complex data into useful presentations, publications, and interactions.

Identity design. Logotypes, symbols, signage, and packaging that work collectively to create a desired experience for customers and help establish or build  your brand.

Environment design. We help organizations orient, inform, and direct visitors in unfamiliar places with signs and visual cues.

Useful Studios, founded in 2002, is based near Leesburg, Virginia, near the Dulles technology corridor in the Washington, D.C. metro area.