HFI's Design Methodology

• What it is
• How it helps
• How does it work with my current methodology?

How it helps

• Time-tested roadmap – The HFI Framework™ lays out the best practices of user-centered design, makes it easy to follow a step-by-step process.
• Organize team members – Provide a common user-centered design methodology so that your marketers, designers, and developers have an integrated approach to usability.
• Add the key missing ingredient to software methods – The HFI Framework integrates usability with the best software development methods so that your development and usability efforts compliment each other.
• Avoid expensive rework at the end of the development process – Iterate designs early before code is locked in.
• Avoid reinventing the wheel – Make use of ergonomically tested, reusable templates for multiple page types.
• Clarify decision–making – HFI Framework reduces the need for guesswork on crucial design decisions.
• Avoid building unnecessary functions – Having fewer functions to build means savings in development and management. It also gives your application a cleaner interface.
• Make it easy to "institutionalize" usability – Many organizations treat their usability efforts as isolated experiments, thus dooming them to failure. To work best, usability should be an ongoing part of your design methods – it has to be "institutionalized." HFI Framework makes it easy.
• Keep up-to-date – Our online resource, Usability Central – Best Practices®, lets all your designers stay current with the best usability knowledge and methods. HFI Framework provides a system for keeping all your design work in tune with the best practices of usability.