Usability Central—Best Practices™
Mobile Web & Application UI Standards Module

Templates and guidelines to help you design for the hand-held environment:.

The Challenge

Companies are challenged to ensure intuitive interface design across their applications. This is complicated further by the size constraints of mobile UI design. Consistent design and architecture help end-users accomplish their tasks, while streamlining development and maintenance.

User interface design standards address this need, yet many companies struggle to create and deploy a successful standard. HFI has found that a typical corporate standards project takes over one year to complete – and often never gets implemented.

HFI's Solution

HFI offers a consensus-building approach to develop and rollout a successful mobile UI design standard:

• Define the type of standards you need
• Form a committee of your key opinion leaders to drive the process and gain internal buy-in
• Interview business stakeholders
• Conduct end-user data gathering
• Create a customized set of 8-12 reusable design templates to standardize your most frequent screen types (based on templates from Usability Central—Best Practices)
• Iterate and validate standards draft by testing with end-users

Most importantly, HFI completes standards projects just 6-10 weeks and helps you choose a showcase project to put them into action immediately.

Usability Central mobile interface standards module:

HFI's Usability Central—Best Practices contains off-the-shelf screen design templates in the Mobile Web and Appication Standards module. These serve as HFI's starting point when creating customized standards for hand-held applications, but can also be purchased standalone (i.e. not customized). These templates capture effective layout, task flow, and visual design – based on extensive research and experience. This module helps you to:

• Learn the rules of engagement for small-screen design
• Build an intuitive navigation structure that makes sense for the mobile world
• Create rapid prototypes with PowerPoint® and Visio®-based tools