DeepLocal is an interdisciplinary software design, development, and strategy studio that brings together artists, designers, and technologists to solve complex communication problems with a focus on usability and simplicity.

DeepLocal assists clients in developing innovative trans-media solutions to the problems associated with the collection, management, analysis, and publication of information. By drawing on the company's rich history in the research and the Arts, DeepLocal has developed a process that involves clients and audience deeply in the design and development cycles. Our clients have included Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Kennywood Entertainment, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Bike Pittsburgh, and TheMotherhood.com.

Our services to clients include print cartography, online mapping, visual design, interaction design, web site and service development, IT consulting, CMS implementation, mobile marketing, product strategy, and early stage product development.

In addition to our software services, we develop products that assist in information communication, informed heavily by our client experience. Our products include Maphub, a web-based geographic-intelligence platform that offers organizations the ability to share, collect and visualize geographic data, and the DeepLocal place/event platform, which enables Email, Voice and SMS (text message) mobile interaction with geographic information.

DeepLocal spun off from Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 2006 after over three years of research into local and collaborative information collection, storage, and visualization. The company's founders worked together as part of an internationally exhibited media arts group prior to their roles as researchers and later as entrepreneurs.

DeepLocal's unique position as a company comprised of experienced designers and accomplished software engineers affords it the ability to offer not just design recommendations but strategies and assistance for streamlined implementation. Enhancements should not remain only on paper or in prototype form but should impact the functioning system. DeepLocal works with our clients to insure that recommendations are implemented. Founded by the first PhD in Design in the country fully supported by NSF funding, Carl DiSalvo, and a former Mobile Device Specialist and Interaction Designer for the prestigious international design firm MetaDesign, Nathan Martin, DeepLocal is dedicated to the integration of design and development.

Our ODI (Observe, Design, Implement) process is predicated on the notion that a system is more than just it's technical process but is limited or enhanced by it's user engagement process. To this end, we work with end user's to understand difficulties, desires and expectations for the operation of software and hardware systems. Based on these observations we are able to build a set of functional guidelines that we refer to during the design process. Our assumptions are then tested against real world users during user testing sessions and final adjustments are made to optimize the design solution.

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The DeepLocal platform supports applications that require broad and immediate access to information. The platform supports getting content (such as event notifications, or what your friends are up to), posting content (such as photos at a location from your phone or email) or searching for content (such as places nearby or what events are happening nearby). We fully support open development and offer documentation to outside developers that hope to build their great ideas using the capabilities of the DeepLocal platform enhancing user experience and solidifying the stickiness of our platform.