The human-machine interface is changing in the wake of digitalization. To roll with this tide, we strive to maximize the user-friendliness of the designs we deliver for industrial products with an HMI, consumer goods with user interfaces, and digital services and apps. Our user-centric workflow fits seamlessly into legacy development processes. We iteratively develop solutions that satisfy and delight users.
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
Developing ideas and strategies
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
Prototyping, interaction, and design
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
Testing and validation
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
Specification
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
User-centric HMI design
The priority from day one is to center the product’s development on users’ needs and real-world use cases. All the individual phases of user-centric interface design focus on this goal.
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The intuitive path to success with safe human-machine interfaces
As the digital transformation picks up momentum, human-machine interfaces are having to meet more stringent requirements and satisfy more demanding expectations. Let us team up to design a bespoke, user-centered HMI that truly suits your needs. Count on us to keep a vigilant eye on all phases and a close watch on every deliverable from the target group analysis to prototyping and specification.
