Accolades

For design consulting work to be considered truly successful, three factions must be satisfied: the client that commissions it, the press that evaluates and the end users who use it:

Clients say... The Press says... End Users say...

The Press says...

Press reviews, particularly comparative reviews, can make or break a product's market success.  If a product is competing on ease-of-use, it simply must have a design that beats all competitors.

Here are some examples of how advanced design can make a product stand head and shoulders above the competitors:

Press Quotes for QuickBooks 2006

    "QuickBooks Premier 2006 is the best upgrade in years. Its slick new interface is the best in small-business accounting [..] QuickBooks Premier 2006 is an extreme makeover, with a revamped home page that newcomers will find easier to master and a shorter setup interview with far fewer screens to navigate. "

      - CNet review, January 2006

    "[..] some of the most significant upgrades to Intuit's small-business accounting software that we've seen in years. [..] QuickBooks' revised home page starts out with a graphical depiction of a workflow that's both easy to understand and customizable to suit your business's accounting capabilities."

      - PC World, January 2006

    "[..] the most comprehensive, successful upgrade Intuit has launched for any product in recent memory. The result is a must-have upgrade for current QuickBooks users. [..] Perhaps the most welcome usability change this year comes in the form of a new home page. It provides an interactive graphical map to your primary tasks"

      - PC Magazine review, November 2005

    "[..] I really like the new interface of Quickbooks. I find the colors and layout to be intuitive. [Before], I was always hunting around trying to find where to enter something. The separate navigators for company, customer, and vendor transactions are gone. Now there's just one super navigator"

      - About.com review, November 2005

Press Quotes and Awards for Claris Organizer 2.0

    "[...] The program does things so elegantly that it's Windows users who, for the first time, will be looking over the fence with envy."

      - David Pogue, PalmPower magazine, November 1998 (Commenting on 3Com's acquisition of Claris Organizer)

    "[...] it's no secret that Claris Organizer is so polished, it makes Pilot Desktop (and even Palm Desktop for Windows) look like rough drafts. [...] The former Claris Organizer is so good, you might not care whether you can use rival information-management programs instead."

      - MacWorld, August 1998
      - Awarded  Best of Show at MacWorld 1998.

    "Organizer is so simple to use it's deceiving. Don't be fooled. There's enough power here to impress even some of life's most obsessive control freaks."

      - MacAddict, February 1997

    "This was one of the friendliest and surprisingly powerful PIMs in the entire roundup. [...] We were blown away by the stylish and powerful Claris Organizer for Mac."

      - Home Office Computing, February 1997
      - Awarded Best Buy Seal
      - Awarded 1997 Editor's Pick award

    "For the single user, it beats [Now] Contact and Up-to-Date hands down in usefulness."

      - Computer Currents, October 22, 1996

    "You'll find that Claris Organizer is exceptionally easy to use and a powerful product for individual and small business use."

      - MacHome Journal, October 1996

    "Palm Desktop is a winner on my Mac. It's now one of the few applications, such as my email client and Web browser, that's permanently active throughout the day. "

      - Tidbits, March 1999

    "3Com's Palm III will prove to be more popular than ever as 3Com has purchased the easy-to-use Claris Organizer."

      - ApplePress July 1998 [PDF]

    "Easy to use PIM gets even easier with upgrade."

      - MacUser, March 1997

    "Claris Organizer 2.0 is a robust PIM that's fast, easy to use, and powerful enough to satisfy the vast majority of users. [...] Excellent interface."

      - MacWorld, January 1997
      - Nominated for Editor's Choice award

Press Quotes and Awards for ClarisImpact 2.0 and ClarisDraw 2.0

    "Claris Impact 2.0 has the versatility to help you take on anything from a multipage report to computer-based presentations. [...] You'll appreciate Claris Impact's functional integration, ease of use, and value for the money."

      - MacWorld February, 1996
      - World Class Award finalist, March, 1997

    Awarded 4 1/2 mice

      - MacUser, January 1996

 

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