User Interface & Usability
FOOTPRINT have extensive expertise in designing products to enhance usability, while also focusing on marketability and market acceptance. In short we design for the user while keeping an eye on marketability.
Services
User Interface Design for hardware or software.
Usability for hardware or software.
Usability Testing for hardware or software.
Human Factors Design for hardware or software.
Ergonomics assessment & design
Employee Sourcing
Here are a few quotes and stats regarding usability within just the software industry.
Every $1 invested in user-centered design returns between $2 and $100.
(Pressman, 1992. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach . McGraw-Hill, NY. )
The average software program has 40 design flaws that impair employees' ability to use it. The resulting cost of lost productivity can be up to 720%.
(Landauer, 1995, The Trouble With Computers , MIT Press.)
Productivity within the service sector would rise 4% - 9% annually if every software program were designed for usability.
(Landauer, 1995, The Trouble With Computers , MIT Press.)
A study of MIS managers found that the training time for new users of a standard personal computer was 21 hours, whereas it was only 11 hours for users of a more usable computer.
(Diagnostic Research, 1990, "Macintosh, MS-DOS, Or Windows: A Synopsis Of What MIS Managers And Business Computers Had To Say." )