Quick Start Guide - Toolkit

The Hiser Element Toolkit

The Quick Start Guide provides a road map to the Hiser Element™ methodology and Toolkit. It helps you see the activities and how they can be integrated with your development process, whether you're:

• planning a new development project ‘from scratch’
• looking to solve a particular problem with an existing application.

Support tools

Usability Tool Selector

This planning tool enables you to handle ‘one-off’ problems in application development, guiding you through a series of questions to select a usability activity that meets your particular needs.

Application Impact Evaluator

This planning tool sets the context for selecting usability activities, by identifying which of three ‘usability paths’ you should follow through a Planning Worksheet.

It identifies the appropriate path based on the impact your application will have on your organization.

Planning Considerations Checklist

This planning tool develops a filter through which to view your selected usability path through the Planning Worksheet.

It suggests particular courses of action based on a review of typical factors that impact the success of an application.

Planning Worksheet

This single checklist enables you to make an informed decision about the usability activities appropriate to your particular development project, and to estimate the effort involved with each. There's also a completed example for reference.

Sample Usability Timeline

A Gantt chart for a typical development project that incorporates usability activities for a medium to large-size project, involving some 4–5 work-months’ effort.