Böwa

Custom web software built around German businesses' processes

Trading as böwa GmbH, the company works from Bremen, Germany, building software, websites and user experience designs. Since 1997 it has built individual web-based software for companies, shaped to their own requirements and goals, along with websites and user experience design. The company describes its aim as making digitalisation useful in practice, with software cut to a client's needs as carefully as a made-to-measure suit.

Websites that combine design with usability

The firm's websites are built with usability and user experience in mind, so that each visitor has a positive experience. Its design work starts with analysis of the client's product, its customer structure and its competitors, and it says good design sense is needed to make pages that speak to the intended audience. Web services are presented alongside custom software as part of one approach to digital work.

UX workshops and the perspectives of users

Before a software project is built, the company runs workshops that take different user perspectives, so that the team can define what easy operation should look like for everyone involved. It says positive user experience is not an optional extra, and that its staff understand technical and regulatory challenges quickly and build what the client needs.

Accessible web content

The company publishes guidance on accessibility. It notes that a barrier-free theme or custom programming does not by itself make a website accessible, and it explains how content in WordPress can be prepared to meet accessibility rules. Its work includes accessible WordPress sites and content for clients who need to meet those standards.

Public sector partnership

Its public-sector work includes a partnership around KOGIS, the content platform the Bremen public administration relies on, and it works with clients in Bremen's public sector as well as private firms.