GUIguide 3.3 Improves Corporate Software Usability
GUIguide 3.3 - WorldÂ’s Only Usability Knowledge Portal - Empowers Software Development Teams to Deploy Highly Usable Applications and Increases Application Design Consistency.
BRENTWOOD, Calif. (PRWEB) January 27, 2004
Classic System Solutions, a provider of usability products and services for corporate software developers, today announced the release of GUIguide 3.3. GUIguide provides a developer portal that can be accessed via the corporate intranet for knowledge capture, content management and delivery of usability knowledge for software development teams. GUIguide enables software development teams to realize highly usable applications while reducing the time and cost associated with traditional development efforts, and is being used in large organizations to facilitate agile design methods on large-scale projects.
Many of the worldÂ’s largest telecommunications, insurance, utilities, retail and health organizations have worked with Classic System Solutions to ensure more usable software applications. Some of these organizations include Progressive Insurance, Edward Jones, DHL, Prudential Securities, GMAC, Alltel, Peoplesoft, Sears, Bell Canada, Sybase, Boeing, Hewlett Packard, IBM, LandsÂ’ End, the U. S. Navy, and Zurich Insurance.
GUIguide 3.3 offers world-leading user interface design standards. It allows developers access to design guidelines for both GUI and web-based applications through a web-based enterprise knowledge portal. GUIguide was created with the vision of providing developers with several distinct advantages. It increases developer productivity, extends application usability, minimizes maintenance and support throughout the development process, and improves the quality and consistency of the applications being deployed.
GUIguide 3.3 Product Features
GUIguide 3.3 comes loaded with several important features, including visual design patterns (VDPÂ’s), quality assurance checklists, recommendations and samples. It also offers techniques for creating consistent usable components and allows teams to capture and share design knowledge. GUIguide comes preloaded with more than 1,300 usability standards and more than 300 checklists, design templates, resource components.
GUIguide 3.3 is development tool independent and is geared for both client/server and web design development projects. It is delivered and administered in a dynamic data-driven web application and is compatible with all major web browsers. Based on an ODBC-compliant database, it allows for instant updates and maintenance and can be immediately deployed throughout an entire corporate intranet.
“We developed the content for GUIguide based on our experience with more than 300 client/server and web application development projects,” said James Hobart, president of Classic System Solutions. “Unlike other standards publications and guides, GUIguide offers recommendations and examples over and above the most accepted GUI standards in the industry, and all in one centrally available knowledge portal. Software applications developed using GUIguide's best practices allow for future reusability and ensures greater end-user acceptance.”
GUIguide 3.3 is now shipping. The price for an enterprise version of GUIguide 3.3 starts at $24,995. Ordering GUIguide can be accomplished by calling the Classic System Solutions hotline at 925-240-2550 or by completing the information request form at the Classic System web site at www. classicsys. com.
About Classic System Solutions
Founded in 1996, Classic System Solutions, Inc. provides usability design products and consulting services for corporate software development. Classic System Solutions offers usability and design seminars and workshops around the world focused on practical, experience based design best practices. The company also offers GUIguide, the worldÂ’s only design knowledge portal, which expedites the development of highly usable software. Classic System Solutions offers a range of usability consulting services including interaction design, application architecture, usability testing and prototyping. Classic System Solutions has worked with more than 300 Global 2000 organizations to help them realize highly usable software, including Blue Cross, GMAC, Bell Canada, Peoplesoft, Sybase, Boeing, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Progressive Insurance. More information on Classic System Solutions can be found online at www. classicsys. com.
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