Sakuzaku provides the full spectrum of Web-related software development and usability engineering services. Our skills are a recherché combination of knowledge in software engineering, design, and the business demands that necessitate them both.

Please see our portfolio for examples of everything here.

• Fully-featured, end-to-end, custom-engineered dynamic websites.
• Online stores and highly usable e-commerce applications — if you can think of it, we’ve done it.
• Social networking functionality, content management systems, message boards, and other custom-developed online applications.
• Streamlining and digitization of business processes and workflow.
• Search engine optimization, online marketing and advertising, mailing lists, and complete traffic and sales reports — the tools needed to drive business, maximize profit and ROI, and reduce barriers to entry for potential customers.
• Through our small, carefully-chosen network of talented design partners, we are poised to deliver excellent graphic design, identity development, branding, and logo design.

• Design review of existing software interfaces to identify problems and potential improvements, from a human factors and interaction perspective.
• User-centered analysis and design of wireframes, mock-ups and final interfaces for software on the Web.
• Full implementation of our recommendations in your project.
• Working closely with your team to engineer usability into your project from the start or at any stage in the process.

• Web 2.0 systems and software architecture consulting for Rails, PHP and more — we can provide invaluable hands-on experience during all stages of your project, because we’ve done it all.
• From the initial planning stages and evaluation of platform and database choices and setup, through to actual development, including deployment and scaling issues, load testing, and refactoring.
• Team development best-practices recommendations, developer training, code reviews, new technology suggestions, and assistance with hiring decisions.
• We can also provide audits in all these areas to ensure your app is sleek, lithe, and maximally maintainable.

We’re always available to bounce ideas off of, answer questions, and give advice in our area of expertise, whether you’re a client or not. Seriously. We like to talk and we like to help people. And we’ll point you in the right direction if we don’t have the answer.

Just send a message.

We are not experts in everything, and so we’re quite happy to introduce you to firms with our same level of standards who we know are better positioned to solve your problems. For example, although we have considerable knowledge of design, we are not graphic designers ourselves. Instead, we work closely with a small number of talented designers who can design everything from websites, to brandmarks, collateral, and advertising. We can even manage the project or refer them to you so that you can work with them directly. Many firms try to provide a one-stop solution rather than turn business elsewhere, but often to the client’s detriment — receipt of a broad but mediocre swathe of services.

And one thing we specifically won’t be able to help you with is Java. (It makes our heads hurt.)