User Experience Design Planning
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Keep your Visual Designers close to the rest of the team, so that they can easily make changes when needed. Use proper Communication channels, Workshops and status meetings to ensure collaboration between teams.
As seen, when entering a hybris project, the Business Client begins with an extended ID/ VD effort, which is commonly out-sourced to an external design agency. As such, these two activities traditionally follow company’s preferences and corporate taste. Even thought the ID/VD deliveries are mostly about providing a visual skin around graphical elements, colors, markup, and fonts, they influence significantly the workflows and end-user behaviors.
Contrariwise, in order to reduce time and cost, the Client is often attracted by the idea to follow the “hybris Accelerator approach”, namely to start the initial front-end design with the visual framework offered by the hybris Suite – the Accelerators.
The hybris Accelerators are ready-to-use software modules providing fully functional front ends. Each Accelerator incorporates common e-commerce practices for realizing multi-channel solutions, offering comprehensive workflows for an online store, order handling, and Call Center capabilities. In its architecture each Accelerator provides: • • •
front-facing code artifacts, which define web pages and their visual elements business logic, acting as a façade layer, connecting the front-end artifacts with the core hybris modules rich data model and several complete store-fronts
Dedicated hybris Accelerators facilitate the quick realization of various business e-commerce domains, like B2B, B2C or Telecommunication. Each Accelerator captures the specifics of the corresponding domain and provides a programing model for extensions.
Doing the Right Thing
Custom Design or Accelerator Design?