Overview of Softwrights, Inc.
Superior
software engineering means our products download, install, and run
extremely fast!
Our logo says it all ... Softwrights blends old-fashioned craftsmanship
into modern software. We meticulously engineer our software to download,
install, and run extremely fast. Quote from a visitor to
Softwrights Web site...
Since 1983, Softwrights has created a wide variety of high-quality,
uniquely-useful software. Our specialties include
educational and CAE (Computer Aided
Engineering) software. Thousands of satisfied people have used products
that we made for our consulting clients. You'll Soon
Be Typing (a typing tutorial) is our first commercial product. We
have extensive experience in:
- Software Engineering... Design/develop in Algol,
Assembler, Basic, C, Forth, Fortran, HTML, Java, Pascal, Perl, PL/1,
Simscript, and Witness.
- Instructional Design... Needs assessment, task
analysis, design/develop training programs... CBT (Computer Based
Training), 12" videodisc (multimedia), and training manuals.
- Software Documentation... Author, design, and
typeset user manuals.
- Computer Graphics... Low/high level graphics
programming... Our display and animation "engine" has higher
performance, efficiency, and scalability than most other software.
- Computer Simulation... Prototype/Test manufacturing
plant designs and business processes to support process improvements
(re-engineering).
- User-Centered Design... Driven by users'
needs... Not by fads or marketing hype. If existing tools or
standards can't satisfy users' needs, we do what's necessary...
Including hand-crafting a user interface... We don't take the
easy way out!
- Simple, Useful, And Practical Design... Hard
work... But worth it. For example, the unique Table of Contents (main
menu) in You'll Soon Be Typing is deceptively
simple looking but it satisfies user needs better than standard
menus.
- Complete Design... We don't cheat you by leaving
out known useful features (within the scope of the product) so that we
can shove a product out the door.
- Lean/Mean Respect For Your Resources.... We
abhor waste and sloppy programming. We optimize for
efficiency (high performance and small size) right from the start... We
don't squander your time, RAM, or hard disk space with painfully slow
(twiddle your thumbs while you watch hourglasses), sloppy, bloated
software like too many other companies do.
- No Known Bugs Shipped... Our quality is second to
none. We believe that shipping products with known bugs is unethical!
All bugs discovered internally and externally (by beta
testers) are removed before we ship anything.
- No Featuritis... A program has featuritis when
features are thrown in that don't add value to the user. They make
programs needlessly bloated and harder to learn/use. We continuously
review our designs to prevent this... That's why we removed
the games (several weeks of work) originally planned for
You'll Soon Be Typing. As nearly any typing
teacher will tell you, typing games often promote bad habits that are
hard to unlearn.
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