GUIguide™, WORLD'S ONLY DESIGN KNOWLEDGE PORTAL

Brentwood, CA What have some of the world's largest telecommunications, insurance, utility, retail, and health care organizations done to expedite the development of more usable graphical user interface (GUI) software applications and web pages? They are using GUIguide -- the world's first and only 'interface design knowledge portal' -- from Classic System Solutions, Inc.

Jim Hobart, President of Classic System Solutions, says "GUIguide is based on years of experience with over 300 client/server and web development projects, incorporating 'real-world' best-practice examples". Unlike static collections of design standards, GUIguide is continuously updated and completely customizable to each organization's unique requirements. It comes pre-loaded with over 1000 standards, guidelines, and case studies, including easy-to-understand visual examples of both good and bad design, plus over 300 checklists, design templates, tables, links to external resources, definitions, and more.

David Pava, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Classic System Solutions added, "GUIguide is a completely packaged system for an enterprise to capture application development knowledge, enabling software development teams to expedite the development of more consistent, user-friendly applications, resulting in increased customer satisfaction." He added, "This knowledge is often spread throughout diverse groups within the organization and is often only contained in the heads of a few 'experts' who may leave the company with the knowledge gained from previous projects." GUIguide solves this problem by placing design knowledge in a secure, central, web-based location accessible by all who can benefit. Stored in an ODBC-compliant database and accessed on the enterprise intranet through any browser, it is searchable, dynamic, and development-tool independent.

The just-released version 2.2 now runs on Microsoft Access or SQL Server under Windows NT or 2000. It is designed to allow users to add new knowledge-based content easily or suggest changes to existing content. An integral workflow process provides a reliable, structured method to ensure that any content additions, deletions, or modifications go through a thorough level of 'due diligence' before being published to all users within the enterprise.

Classic's customers attest that GUIguide enables them to deploy more user-friendly applications at an accelerated pace. For a development team with approximately 20 members, the cost of implementing GUIguide can be recouped in less than 4 months. "There is nothing else like it on the market," Pava concluded.

About Classic System Solutions:

Classic SystemSolutions, Inc.'s Usability Engineering Experts™ are exclusively focused on assisting the world's largest and most prestigious organizations with their GUI design and software system usability projects. The company has both portable and fixed usability labs to ensure proper assessment and testing of client applications. It has developed GUI design guidelines for over five years and consulted on over 300 hundred client/server and web-based projects. Classic System Solutions, Inc.'s GUI and web design seminars are taught worldwide, and their consultants speak regularly at the industry's most respected conferences.