Always at the forefront of agile and innovative technology and design, our Perficient Digital Labs team recently set its sights on the following question: What if you could share a VR experience with someone without actually being in VR yourself? The team wanted to expand the typically solitary VR experience to include players and components […]
Posts Tagged ‘Design’
The Secret to Functional, Collaborative Salesforce Communities
Vlocity is a San Francisco-based company that delivers industry-specific cloud and mobile software that embed digital, omnichannel processes for customer-centric industries. They are also a Strategic Partner to Salesforce and have many tools developed to help their customers and partners drive results and ensure success. However, Vlocity’s VisualForce community lacked engagement and was difficult to […]
How the Rise in IoT is Changing Mobile UX Design
I recently traveled out of town and upon landing back in Atlanta, the captain came over the PA system to announce the weather. I was not excited to hear that the temperature outside was much colder than the place I had just arrived from. I quickly opened my Nest app on my phone and turned […]
Our Proven Recipe for Customer Community Success
The Best Communities Focus on Content and Design Content plays a foundational role in a community’s success. However, having helpful, easy-to-follow content available for your customer community means nothing unless users are able to find it, consume it, and understand it. That’s where the UI/UX design comes into play; when, where, and how they access […]
Designing for Experience Platforms
Designers can’t focus only on look and feel. When a design is planned to drive the user experience, websites are more functional and more effective.
An Unnecessary Bottle Opener: A Digital Experience Story
A couple of years ago I walked into a sporting goods store in my area because I love the feeling of optimism I get while looking at mountain bikes and thinking that this will be the year I do XYZ. I have yet to do that, but I digress. While there, I purchased a pair […]
eCommerce QA Testing: 5 Small Strategies for Big Quality Impact
Testing an eCommerce website before it launches is an important part of ensuring its success. Standard quality assurance (QA) processes include requirements gathering, developing test plans, executing test plans, etc., but incorporating these five strategies into your testing approach can produce big positive quality impacts without a lot of extra time or effort. 1. Require […]
User Experience: When Best Practices Are Just Bad Habits
In virtually every kickoff meeting or design review I’ve ever attended, the words “Best Practice” get brought up at least once. At their core, best practices are supposed to be the accepted rules that we as designers reference to make sure our work is the best it can be. Like minimum code in construction, best […]
What Can Usability Teach Us About Working Together?
World Usability Day was established in 2005 by the Usability Professionals Association. Each year, design professionals come together to discuss how to “develop technologies in a way that serves people first.” On November 8, 2018, professionals met at almost 100 locations around the world to discuss the how to “Make Life Easy.” I attended World […]
User First Design. User First Experience.
Business users are bringing their consumer purchasing power with them to the office. They expect instantaneous results. Designers need to find a balance between meeting this expectation and creating an interface that isn’t cluttered.
Perficient Digital Wins Creativity Award for New Healthcare Site
Perficient Digital recently received a Creativity International award for the website we designed and created for OhioHealth, a not-for-profit system of hospitals and healthcare providers. The new website won a Silver award in the Non-Profit category, marking our first award win in the healthcare space. With health consumerism continually influencing patient expectations, OhioHealth wanted to […]
Speak with the UX/UI Designer of OpenTable’s Community at #CNX18
Join Perficient and other Trailblazers for three days of learning from those who are driving innovation in digital marketing, commerce, and service across all industries. Make sure to check out the session highlighting the Perficient-built customer community and speak to the designer who built it (and completed it in record time). You’ve heard how popular […]