The Company HK Interface Design Inc. was founded in 1995 to help companies achieve their business goals by providing easy-to-use websites and software applications. We have seen too many companies spend millions of dollars developing applications, only to scrap the resulting application because it did not meet their needs. How does this happen? More often than not, business needs aren't properly translated into design specifications. Our user-centered design process ensures this does not happen. We act as a bridge between the business team and IT, ensuring that the vision of the application is captured, and providing this vision, in the form of a customer-validated prototype, to the development team. Our success comes from our ability to create a foundation for good design for each client. What this means is that when we are gone, good design continues. We build this foundation by working with our clients to establish a process for user-centered design and by creating effective designers through training and mentoring programs. The Principal Harris Kravatz has over 20 years of experience designing and developing large-scale software applications. Over the last decade, Harris has led the design of user interfaces for large-scale web and software applications in the fiancial services, higher education and public utility industries. His work has resulted in a significant increase in productivity and customer satisfaction and a decrease in support costs. Experience Highlights During a successful 14-year career at IBM, Harris managed numerous software projects and as an interface architect, Harris was instrumental in creating the IBM-Microsoft software design standards and the OS/2 and Windows user interfaces. Harris is the co-author of two IBM User Interface Style Guides, has published numerous articles on user interface design, and conducts seminars and courses on user interface design and usability testing. Harris is also a frequent presenter on design and usability at industry conferences. Education Harris received his BS in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Florida in 1978. Harris is a member of SIGCHI and UPA, industry associations that focus on human-computer interaction.