GUIguide(TM) THE WORLDS FIRST DESIGN KNOWLEDGE PORTAL

Brentwood CA, What have some of the worlds largest telecommunications, insurance, utilities, 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 worlds first and only Interface Design Knowledge Portal -- from Classic System Solutions, Inc.Jim Hobart, the President of Classic Systems, 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 organizations 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, a glossary and more. David Pava, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Classic Systems added, GUIguide is a complete 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 would 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 to suggest changes to existing content. An integral workflow process provides a reliable structured method to insure that any content additions, deletions or modifications go through a thorough level of due diligence" before being published to all users within the enterprise.Classics 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.