Industrial IoT solutions and IoT platforms
It has been proven that visually appealing interfaces are perceived as easier to use, even when they are not. While such assessments are more subjective in nature, they still reveal an objective truth: good design supports the usability of your product.
Classic user interface design begins once we have validated an initial interaction concept using wireframes. The wireframes serve as a basis and show where elements will be installed and what information each screen will carry.
Visual design is about visualising in detail and bringing wireframes to life with your corporate identity. What primary, secondary and accent colours will be used? What do the icons and buttons look like? What fonts and styles will be used? Will the new product fit into your software environment?
The results of interaction design and visual design come together in hi-fi click dummies. These look like your final product and visualise its functions. The big advantage: The user experience of your product can be tested realistically with these prototypes, without having to program the software behind them.
The results of methodically conducted usability tests with hi-fi click dummies contain a high degree of truth about user behaviour. They therefore make a significant contribution to the process of optimising the user experience. And they provide the perfect basis for our developers to turn the design into code.
Is it called “input field” or “mask”, “button” or “switch”?
We believe that working to defined standards makes it easier and more efficient to work with you and your staff. At the same time, standards help us to implement uniform and universally applicable ergonomics. This is why we work to the DIN EN ISO 9241 standard in our projects and follow the seven principles of dialogue:
The user interface style guide ensures that the developed user interface design is consistently applied. If you already have a style guide, we will add the new product to it. The aim is to help our and future developers and designers so that their software solutions always look and feel the same.
As a living database, the style guide also makes life easier for developers. True to the single-source-of-truth concept, adjustments to interaction elements, colours, fonts, etc. are recorded in the style guide database, whose database is used by the application. Adjustments made once have a universal effect on the entire solution.