The Communication Studio LLC

Customizing the Design Environment

/ WebFocus (4 mo.)

Information Builders wanted a sophisticated template and styling system that would allow non-technician customers to easily customize the presentation of the Business Information-based reports that they created through IBI's WebFocus 8 product.

Template: Teal Theme

Template: Bronze Theme

Template: IBI Theme

Template: SkyBlue Theme

Template: Purple Theme

Challenges

  • Deliver a sophisticated suite of customer-facing Templates that would flexibly accomodate essential business information reporting data - and do so in a straightforward, accessible manner.
  • Craft a customizable Styling System that would allow non-technicians to manage IBI's presentation reporting tools through WebFocus 8. 
  • Seamlsssly integrate IBI's proprietary business intelligence reporting tools.

Solutions

  • Analyzed customer needs and provided a flexible set of templates that embodied appropriate information architecture in a responsive, customizable design environment.
  • Integrated output from IBI's proprietary back-end graphing and reporting tools.
  • Mentored IBI staff on relationship between CSS and Information Architecture.
  • Guided in-house tech team towards good UX design practices.

We explored the practical boundaries of expectation.

Application UI Design: Professional Productivity Tool Page templates, taxonomy, information architecture and styling, telecommute