In system and software development, design deliverables for each phase are often fragmented across Word/Excel, UML tools, and other formats, which can lead to manual work and inconsistencies. Next Design allows you to customize your development-specific design tool by defining a "meta-model," which organizes the information structure and relationships of design deliverables, and "views," which are diagrams and document representations used to express them.
Because defining metamodels and views is completed entirely through the tool's UI, you can build a customized design tool tailored to your own design methodology without any programming. This customization is typically performed by senior designers or process improvement departments as preparation before engineering, allowing actual developers to proceed with design using the customized Next Design.
Thanks to this high level of customizability, you can seamlessly implement your development team's design deliverables and process innovations directly into the tool, enabling you to obtain a dedicated design tool tailored to each development team's methodology without writing any code.
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Define the characteristics and strengths of each development environment using meta-models
Meta-models model the structure and relationships of requirements and design information. They materialize improvements and strengths cultivated over time, as well as product-specific architectures and design details.
Meta-model definition in Next Design is the organization and visualization of the design process in the development environment.
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Freely define the appearance of your design deliverables using views
After defining the meta-model, you can define views, which are the visual representations (formatting methods) of your design information. Options include diagrams for easy overview, document representations for entering detailed design information, and data grids for tabulating large amounts of data in large-scale systems—all of which are fully customizable.
In addition to standard notations such as UML and SysML, you can use your development environment's proprietary notations as-is.
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No paradigm shift required. Respecting the methods of your environment.
Views serve as the UI for editing the contents defined in the meta-model. Because you can use familiar terminology, document structures, and diagram representations directly, designers can naturally perform "design aligned with the meta-model."
Next Design adapts to your development environment without requiring changes to your existing design methodologies. Even without modeling experts, you can edit using familiar presentation formats that you have used in your established design processes.
