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User-centered Product Planning

Unfortunately, managers often don't consider usability until near the end of a development cycle. At that point, our expert reviews and usability testing can identify important problems and propose solutions, but too often there's no time or resources to make the needed fixes. Managers are confronted with an unappealing decision: ship late and over-budget, or ship a product that its users don't want, don't like, or can't use. The decision is especially painful when they realize how much time they've spent working on features that users didn't actually need.

If you want to avoid these problems by thinking ahead and including usability in your product planning process, Interfacile's expertise can be of great value to you. With our expertise in user-centered design, we'll help you identify the capabilities and features that will be most appealing and useful to your intended audience, and avoid the "featuritis" that results in slipped schedules and unusable products. We'll identify opportunities for you to use usability as a competitive advantage that can reduce support costs, increase customer retention, and enhance productivity. We can propose innovative but simple solutions to complex interface design problems, resulting in products that are a pleasure to use -- and sell.

Whether you're delivering a system for your own company's use or hoping for a broad audience of consumers, you should be thinking about usability early and often. Interfacile will show you how.