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Award Winning Interactive Solutions
AKR Interactive is a full service internet application, software and multimedia development company, with expertise in social media, user experience, exhibit installation, marketing, content development, business process, branding, and graphic design. Our principals have a combined experience of over 30 years in delivering award winning solutions for business, non-profit, artistic and civil society institutions.
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User Experience, Business, Communication and Content Strategy
Web development today is all about accountability. Accountability to the business and organizational objectives of the client; and accountability for the usefulness, usability and relevance to the target audience. AKR Interactive takes these things very seriously. Whether you are a small organization, or a large corporation with a plethora of business divisions, we ensure that:
  • All relevant external factors are analyzed. These include market forces, peers or competitor activity and external collaborators, including social networks and content partnerships.
  • All internal organizational factors are reconciled, such as stakeholder needs, internal workflow, customer relations management and integration of all enterprise-wide factors. The end-goal is consensus, awareness, and agreement on priorities for the project.
  • Your audiences will be well cared for. At AKR we are deeply schooled in user centered design best practices and methodologies. We work hard to ensure that all content, commerce, communication or utility components are engaging, useful, usable, finable and relevant for your target audiences.
  • Your content and communications are on point. Principals at AKR are distinguished in the world of content and communications. The content-intensive projects we have led have earned some of the highest awards that exist in the world of web development.
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Technical Development, Consulting and Agile Processes
Our technical capabilities are second to none. Whether you need hardware, software, network, IT/IS infrastructure consultation we’ve got you covered. Our technical products and services include:
  • Rich internet application (RIA) development
  • Rich media creation and deployment, including rich media banners ads.
  • Touch screen kiosks
  • Social media platforms
  • Product simulation
  • e-Learning
  • e-Commerce
  • Online gaming
  • CD/DVD ROMS
  • Guidance in hardware selection for new media servers
  • Installation and customization of source control software
  • Staff training in new software use and technology transition management
  • Advanced training in software development for internal IT
  • We specialize in multimedia using Flex, Flash, Air, ActionScript, MXML, Director, Lingo
  • Also: HTML, XHTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, C#, Asp, Asp.NET, WinForms, VBA, ColdFusion, SQL, SQL Server and Access.

We are certified in and fluent in best practices of software architecting and engineering such as Object Oriented Programming, (OOP/OOA&D), Design Patterns, Scrum, XP and Agile Processes

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Interactive Design, Branding and Creative Direction

At AKR we ensure that our products are designed elegantly, usably, accessibly and appropriately for the target audiences and that your brand voice and atmosphere permeate user experience.

We offer identity services that not only extend your brand atmosphere to the online space, but tell your story. We can work with you to shape your story into any kind of media narrative that's appropriate to the project. Need a film produced? An online comic? An interactive timeline of your company history? We can make it happen.

We provide the following design services:

  • Graphic Design
  • Web Sites & Application Design
  • Video
  • Print
  • Audio Recording & Editing
  • Animation/Motion Graphics
  • Packaging
  • Furniture Design
  • Copy writing
  • Environmental
  • Guerilla Marketing
  • Viral marketing
  • Mixed Media Performance & Installation...

 

Clients
  • 3M
  • AARP
  • Agriliance
  • Arctic Cat
  • Aveda
  • Bank of America
  • Best Buy
  • Betty Crocker
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Cargill
  • Carlson School of Management
  • Cartoon Network
  • Case IH
  • Cenex
  • CHS
  • Coca Cola
  • Colle+McVoy
  • Coppertone
  • Courage Center
  • Crestliner
  • Croplan Genetics
  • DCM Services
  • Disetronic
  • DuPont
  • DUZZ Creative
  • Erbert & Gerbert’s
  • Field & Stream Lodges
  • Fort Dodge
  • Free Arts MN
  • GAGE
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