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News Release from: Human Factors International | Subject: Usability Central - Best Practices
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 24 April 2007
Usability Central launches at Internet
World
Human Factors International is about to unveil its highly developed process comprising usability standards, methods, knowledge and tools for web design and software products.
Human Factors International, a global leader in user-centric design and software usability, has chosen this year's Internet World as the ideal platform to launch its Usability Central - Best Practices to the UK market This is a highly developed process comprising usability standards and tools for web design and software products, which can be installed and customised to suit different business purposes and technical environments
This article was originally published on Marketingservicestalk on 6 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Throughout the three days of the exhibition, 1-3 May at Earls Court, Human Factors International will be giving on-stand demonstrations of how Usability Central - Best Practices can be applied.
Building on the software industry's earlier developments in hardware and software, Usability Central - Best Practices leads today's third wave in information technology.
It reinforces usability's coming of age as a systematic, repeatable process, which can be applied across any organisation's information technology system.
To produce successful software products that satisfy user needs and expectations, user-centric interface design must be an integral part of the overall software development methodology.
In practice, it is often deadlines, budgets and technological constraints that drive development, rather than the business purpose for creating the product.
Usability Central - Best Practices provides the infrastructure required to ensure user-centric design methods are applied throughout the entire development process.
It is a flexible offering made up of five modules - methodology, web interface standards, GUI interface standards, knowledge and graphics - which can be purchased individually or in any combination.
Each module, in turn, is designed to be customised as part of a step-by-step process.
"Our product will be of particular interest to large organisations as it can be applied globally to external websites, intranets and extranets to achieve a consistency of standards and design across the technology spectrum", says Nigel Grace, Managing Director of Human Factors Europe.
An added benefit is that the resource allows global companies to store personalised web style guides, templates, standards and protocols worldwide, which can be used by local usability operators and managers dealing with local products, while ensuring uniformity of branding.
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