GUIguide™ 3.3 Improves Corporate Software Usability

GUIguide 3.3 - World's Only Usability Knowledge Portal - Empowers Application Teams to Deliver Highly Usable Software.

BRENTWOOD, Calif. – January 25, 2004 – Classic System Solutions, a provider of usability products and services for corporate software developers, today announced the release of GUIguide 3.3.   GUIguide provides an enterprise developer portal for the capture, management and delivery of usability knowledge among software development teams.  GUIguide enables corporations to deliver highly usable applications while reducing the time and cost associated with traditional development efforts, and is being used in Global 2000 organizations to facilitate agile design methods on large-scale projects.

GUIguide 3.3 offers world-leading user interface design standards. It allows developers access to design guidelines for both GUI and web applications through a web-based enterprise knowledge portal. GUIguide was created with the vision of providing developers with several distinct advantages. It increases developer productivity, extends application usability, facilitates code re-use, and improves the quality and consistency of the applications being deployed.

GUIguide 3.3 Product Features

GUIguide 3.3 comes loaded with visual design guidelines and patterns, quality assurance checklists, recommendations and the ability to link to software assets. GUIguide helps corporations create consistent usable components, and allow teams to capture and share design knowledge. GUIguide comes preloaded with more than 1,300 usability guidelines and more than 300 checklists, design templates, resource components.

“We developed the content for GUIguide based on our experience with more than 300 client/server and web application development projects,” said James Hobart, president of Classic System Solutions. “Unlike other standards publications and guides, GUIguide is a robust web application that is fully customizable and supports enterprise standards efforts all in one centrally available knowledge portal. Software applications developed using GUIguide's best practices allow for future reusability and ensures greater end-user acceptance.”

GUIguide 3.3 is now shipping. The price for an enterprise version of GUIguide 3.3 starts at $24,995. Order GUIguide by calling the Classic System Solutions hotline at 925-240-2550 or by completing the information request form at the Classic System web site at www.classicsys.com.

About Classic System Solutions

Founded in 1996, Classic System Solutions, Inc. provides usability products, training and consulting services for corporate software development. The company also offers GUIguide, the world’s only Usability knowledge portal, which expedites the development of highly usable software. Classic System Solutions offers a range of usability consulting services including interaction design, application architecture, usability testing and development. Classic System Solutions has worked with more than 300 Global 2000 organizations to help them deliver highly usable software, including Blue Cross, GMAC, Bell Canada, Peoplesoft, Sybase, Boeing, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Unisys and Progressive Insurance. More information on Classic System Solutions can be found online at www.classicsys.com.