Software designed for the user, built for results.

Our usability practice reaches across industries, serving healthcare, banking, real estate, manufacturing, and other industries.

What is Usability? Usability describes the level of ease with which people can employ a tool to accomplish a goal.

Usable objects and systems are designed around how people can, want, or need to work, rather than forcing the users to change how they work to accommodate the system.

PointClear Solutions conducts research to help clients better understand their audiences, and translates those findings into informed designs. We build software products people love to use.

Hear more about Usability and PointClear's Usability Practice in Lee Farabaugh's Podcast.

Usability + Business

"Usability goals are business goals. Web sites that are hard to use frustrate customers, forfeit revenue, and erode brands." (Forrester Research)

Incorporating user research, user-centered design, and evaluation with real users increases the value of a software/web product:

  • Increased sales and customer satisfaction
  • Increased productivity for users
  • Positive user experience
  • Increased interaction (sales, ad impressions, etc.)
  • Reduced development and maintenance costs
  • Reduced training and documentation costs
  • Increase in competitive edge and notice in media

Usability Resources

Jakob Nielsen's UseIt.com

User Interface Engineering

UX Matters

37 Signals

Adaptive Path

Design View

Usability.gov

A List Apart

Good Experience

Boxes and Arrows

Little Springs Design - Mobile Design Patterns

Association of Computing Machinery's Interactions Magazine

Designer's Toolbox

Creating Passionate Users

Yahoo Design Patterns Library

Simple Tricks to More Usable Forms

CSS Table Gallery

Doctype Icons from BrandSpankingNew

MiniIcons

Icons from FamFamFam

QBullets Animated Icons

Bullet Madness from StyleGala

Design Patterns on Flickr