Designing is an art! It creates new insights, ideas or solutions by managing inventively negotiable and non-negotiable constrains which are specified in the requirements and utilise the remaining freedom in an inspiring and renewing way.
The beauty is in the efficiency of how a design enables an organisation to meet strategic goals more adequately by:
- reducing overall costs
- utilising scarce resources more efficiently
- improving customer satisfaction
- improving employer satisfaction
- conforming to legislation
To ensure return of investment it is key to be able to adapt successfully following a proper design.
Hellebaard offers two different types of design:
- functional design
- technical design
Functional designs are important to document complete customer requirements in an unambiguous and objective way which all involved parties can comprehend. Technical designs meet the functional requirements and have to precise and extensive to guarantee customer satisfaction, especially with third party development or implementation.
Designing demands understanding of the domain, effective communication and efficient problem solving.
Hellebaard is able to provide high quality designs in objective reports which are customised for the intended audience. Besides the use of plain English or Dutch, designs can be complemented with the use of different industry standards like UML® and XSD.