Service Overview

 

We provide one seamless suite of services covering entire range of user experience support, including consulting and design. HFI user-centered design process is based on the Schaffer-Weinschenk method.

The Schaffer-Weinschenk Method™ is a complete user-centered design process. Over the last 25 years, the technical staff at HFI has assembled the best practices for optimizing user experience. HFI provides this process as a part of Usability Central - Best Practices™ and can also customize this process to your organizaitonal needs. The Schaffer–Weinschenk Method™ exemplifies ISO methodology（"Usability Engineering – Quality Approach (ISO 13407)," Anjoo Navalkar）

 

 Time-tested roadmap – The Schaffer-Weinschenk Method™ 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 Schaffer-Weinschenk Method 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 – The Schaffer-Weinschenk Method 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." The Schaffer-Weinschenk Method makes it easy.

 

If you already have a software design methodology, The Schaffer–Weinschenk Method™ fits in easily with your existing software development life cycle (SDLC) methods—and enhances them by making the outcomes user-friendly.