Customized, user-friendly HMI Design

The first step in a user and requirements analysis is to catalog the complex interactions of an application – that is, the functions, readouts, and responses. Interviews, monitoring, and other methods can serve this end. To develop user-centric software, our team observes and interviews the relevant user groups. This yields a collection of use cases and indications that translate into the development specifications.

What we do at a glance:

• User and requirements analysis
• Product, competition and market analysis
• Understanding users through research methods

To get a good picture of the functions and indications in the application, we outline ideas in wireframes. Joining forces with you, we bring users, the client, and developers on board to devise an implementation strategy, design user-centric information architecture, and tailor both to fit. We render every interaction individually as it is executed in the graphic display, and then insert it into this structure.

What we do at a glance:

• Information architecture and sitemap
• Presentation of content, processes and flows

In the next phase of prototyping, we focus on the user experience to eliminate unnecessary distractions and detours when creating mock-ups. The priority is always on delivering the best user experience. Various tools serve to assemble individual components and create clickable prototypes with a graphical user interface, the idea being to get a good impression of the application’s prospective look and feel. This way, we can make adjustments early in the process. Everything we do here is done in service of user-friendly handling. 

What we do at a glance:

• (Rapid) Prototyping
• Interaktionsdesigns und Patterns
• Interaktives Branding

Existing mock-ups and a questionnaire for the individual use cases serve to query the development status, continuously and in parallel. We have predetermined methods to check, log, and assess requirements and software components, one being the RITE method. This is our way of assuring the development effort flows continuously.

What we do at a glance:

• Evaluation from the user’s point of view (usability testing)
• Software and user interface testing
• Test automation

In the next step, we plug the test results back into the development process. Once we achieve the result we aim to attain, we capture it in Polarion or DOORS, for example. Finally, the development teams coordinate and document the collection of use cases, all compiled user requirements, and the technical framework with you.

What we do at a glance:

• Documentation of user and software requirements
• Branding guide
• Asset export