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Bridging the gap between requirements and design

The traditional user interface design processes do not have a systematic process to analyse requirements and determine the most appropriate user interface deign.  Traditionally, it is about prototyping an interface and seeing if it works, and then iterating though various updates until it works.  This is not a quality process and adds time and cost to the development process.

The XPDesign process



XPDesign™ address these issues by getting the design right the first time, removing endless iteration, saving time and money.


We solve critical problems during application development


We combine best-in-class user interface design principles with development to solve the common problems in IT.  If you experienced any of these issues in your last IT project, then we can help:

  • Requirements frequently changed, adding cost and delaying the launch
  • The executives couldn’t agree on how the application should work or look
  • When the users got to see it, they found it hard to use, and weren’t happy
  • Our customers still think our competitors have a better offering
  • Usability testing found significant problems, with no time or budget to fix them
  • The support costs were much higher than expected, eroding the return on investment
  • We were over time and over budget, and the application still didn’t do everything we wanted it to
  • The interface couldn’t scale to handle all scenarios, requiring major rework

XPDesign™ drives high performance user interface design


Using XPDesign™ for user interface design has the following benefits:

  • Standardises the user interface design process, making it easier and faster to implement and use
  • Reduces screen count by 50% or more, making the application easier to use and learn
  • Provides a scalable and flexible interface to change as the business changes, but maintains fundamental consistency to maintain familiarity for users and customers
  • Stop the requirements from continuously changing, adding to costs and causing delays
  • Gets the design right the first time, significantly reducing development time and costs

How XPDesign™ works


XPDesign™ achieves these outcomes because the resulting high performance user interface designs:

  • Reflect the way people do things
  • Improve business performance
  • Ensure that the right work processes being embedded, and not just the way people have always done things
  • Embed the training and other support requirements in the interface to reducing training costs and maximise uptake
  • Result in significant speed and efficiency gains 
  • Use common language so people can easily get how it works

The interface is not designed around the back-end processes, which are often complex and designed to suit the technical environment, not people. The interface design is derived from analysing what people do and best practice in the domain, within the context of business performance and technical capabilities.

XPDesign™ is a unique methodology that takes a holistic view of organisation systems, performance, its requirements and customers.  It ensures a standard approach to requirements gathering and expression, regardless of the experience level of the consultant applying it.  Importantly, it bridges the gap that has traditionally existed between the business and IT.  The designs that we produces can be directly coded as working applications by IT, without the need for interpretation.


Handling change within XPDesign™


There are many circumstances in which change is required during development, and the process needs to respond appropriately and provide flexibility.

Change is needed when there are:

  • Mistakes (missing or wrong requirements)
  • Process changes
  • Rule changes

The key to managing change is XPDesign™ and its ability to create a scalable and flexible user interface architecture, separate to the actual user interface design.  With XPDesign™:

  • Patterns and processes can be modified without affecting the fundamentals and starting from scratch
  • Some changes are completely transparent to the design, such as rule changes
  • The architecture is stable, while the look and feel and branding can easily change on top
 
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