A User-Centric Design Philosophy

March 8, 2010

Adoption

At i2Q/Synetrix during the development of the applications making up the OPENHIVE platform, we adopted a number of new working processes and technologies like Agile Development, Microsoft Silverlight with a new (Model-View-ViewModel) application architecture, and a User-Centred design process.

Applying an Agile development process has improved our delivery. Silverlight has enabled us to provide rich, flexible and powerful user experiences which in conjunction with an MVVM architecture have allowed the smooth integration of interface and logic.

Informing all of this is the User-Centric philosophy we aim to follow in the design and development of all our applications.

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OPENHIVE – What you think!

January 18, 2010

WOW what an event! Celebrating its 26th birthday, BETT attracted over 30,000 delegates and 700 exhibitors to Olympia last week.  Promoted as THE show to attend, to stay at the forefront of educational technology, BETT2010 was the perfect place for us to launch OPENHIVE (Picture Gallery).

Prior to the show, we worked hard to develop our website, brochures and event freebies, hoping that each of them did OPENHIVE justice; but nothing is better than hearing the opinions of those whom we created it for.

The BETT polling station showed that 22% of visitors were interested in learning platforms and this was our chance to show something truly different.  In four days we must have demonstrated OPENHIVE to hundreds of people and the feedback has been tremendous.  Reactions to our demonstrations ranged from “oh WOW” and “ah ha” to “now that’s impressive”.

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