Users demand easy to use, highly interactive, functionality-rich applications. They expect all applications (enterprise, Internet and desktop) to perform with the same level of UI responsiveness and interaction. On the surface this may seem simple and straightforward. However, the software, standards and skills necessary to design and deliver highly interactive applications on enterprise platforms, across the Internet, the desktop and various other channels (mobile devices, kiosks, voice, etc.) have become a challenge for most companies. TandemSeven’s strong focus on usability and user experience design ensures overall adoption and success of applications. Our User Interface Technology Delivery Services include:
- Rich Interface Development
TandemSeven provides companies with the expertise necessary to develop highly interactive rich business applications. We build, integrate, test and deliver all rich interface elements and application tier components. All activities are monitored and lead by TandemSeven’s user interface designers, technical architects and project managers. And, our certified technical architects and developers ensure back-end logic and integration are implemented according to desired functionality, quality of service, flexibility and extensibility.
- Portal User Interface Development
TandemSeven's technical experts provide you with the expertise necessary to develop highly interactive business application and portal user interfaces. Our UI developers are particularly adept at working with UI designers to create optimum user experience for portal applications. Whether you need custom UI or specific portlet development, TandemSeven's UI developers can help your team achieve its goals.
- User Interface Integration
On every computing platform, user interface technologies have been rapidly changing to provide greater interactivity and responsiveness. Since our inception, TandemSeven has helped numerous organizations integrate the latest user-interface technologies, including:
- Java: JSPs, Struts, Java Applets, Swing
- AJAX: Dojo, Ext, Prototype, jQuery, MooTools, YUI
- Portal servers: BEA WebLogic and AquaLogic, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle Portals, custom portal frameworks
- Microsoft: ASP.NET framework, SharePoint, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Vista
- Adobe: Flash, Flex
- XML and industry-standard mark-up languages.
We help your organization integrate the appropriate UI technologies and standards to significantly impact customer experience.
- Quality Assurance
When developing and maintaining business applications that demand highly usable and useful user interfaces, all aspects of the user interface must be verified and validated. The need to support a complex, personalized experience with rich interactivity, high responsiveness, and superior ease-of-use for both experts and novices makes validation to specifications both demanding and vital. An effective quality assurance program detects issues early in the life cycle to minimize project costs, and accommodates rapid verification cycles to support the release cycle. For global software development, coordination and communication of quality issues is imperative.
TandemSeven's QA practitioners understand software development processes and take a user-centered approach to quality assurance by focusing on user and business requirements. Our team members are expert in a wide spectrum of automated, expert-based, and user-centric testing methods and tools that assist in validating the application against specifications. TandemSeven’s extensive expertise helps organizations integrate quality assurance processes throughout the software development life cycle, using the following methodologies:
- Application Design Verification
TandemSeven provides full life cycle testing and reporting to verify and manage the quality of applications. Services include verification strategy and planning, and testing for functionality, compatibility, performance and standards compliance. TandemSeven is also able to collaborate with your team to address needs for load, stress and regression testing, automation and issue resolution, and reporting processes and mechanisms.
- Usability and User Experience Testing
TandemSeven's suite of usability and user experience testing and evaluation services allow validation of the application against business and user requirements from a user's perspective. This is an extremely valuable but often overlooked step in the application development lifecycle. Traditional acceptance testing approaches do not adequately address usability issues and normally occur as the final step in the development cycle prior to launch, too late to incorporate change. TandemSeven’s services encompass the entire application lifecycle, from requirements definition and baseline activities through prototyping and development, consistently validating user needs. Read more information on TandemSeven's Usability Engineering Services.