20+

Yrs. Experience

We provide fractional support for Analyzing, Designing, Prototyping, and Testing software products.

  1. Knowledge: Deep experience with complex technologies.
  2. Zero Switch Cost: We work with your team, not instead of them.
  3. No Risk: Short, long and/or flexible engagements—hit the pause button any time.

Services

Product Accelerator

Ideation to Release

This is the heart of our work. We embed our proven process within your team, guiding you collaboratively through every critical stage—from initial concept to a successful launch. We don't just build a product; we empower your team with a blueprint for future innovation.

User Studies

Data/insights from Users & Subject Matter Experts

We observe users performing real tasks to understand their motivations and challenges. This reveals powerful insights that standard interviews miss. We then translate this data into activity maps and workflow diagrams, ensuring the final design is built on a foundation of genuine user/expert behavior.

Requirements & Business Analysis

Requirements Management and Traceability

We build a framework of traceability, linking every requirement to its source observation and tracking it through the entire lifecycle to source code. This provides total accountability, ensuring that every development effort directly supports a specific business need. It allows us to validate project scope and deliver a system with no orphaned features or missed requirements.

UX/UI Design

Translating Requirements into Design

We transform observations of user activity into intuitive interfaces. Grounded in best practices, our designs are built to be flexible, scalable, and simple. We provide a clear visual link between the user requirement and the final screen design, ensuring every element serves a real, observable purpose.

Prototyping

High Value Iteration

We build interactive prototypes to get a true feel for the final product. Using HTML, CSS, and JS allows for realistic user testing, which generates better feedback and helps us iterate faster. This process uncovers both design and technical issues early, resulting in a more robust and user-centered product.

Test Engineering

Test Engineering as Product Insurance

We ensure software quality by translating requirements into test cases. This traceability defines 'complete': a requirement is done only when all linked backlog items, and test cases, pass, validating the implemented functionality against requirements. This ensures all requirements are tested, providing an objective measure of project completion.


About Us

Micaela Ellison
Requirements & Testing

10+ years experience managing the requirements and testing for software applications. Micaela has been a founder, design engineer, business analyst, and test engineer.

Matt Queen
Research & Design

20+ years experience building and managing products and programs, leading design teams, and developing (coding) modern apps and sites from start to scaled deployment.

What's with the name F39?

Over 20 years ago, Matt had a miscommunication with a developer resulting in screen design spec note indicator making it all the way into the final deployed software. Thereafter, Matt started using the garrish color #f39 in design specs for NO CONFUSION between spec notes and the actual screen designs. The color code has since turned into a signifier of our work and mark of quality.