Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

Lisa Crawford from Florida Blue (formerly Blue Cross Blue Shield of FL) presented an excellent session at IBM Connect 2013 on the evolution of their portal platform and the ROI they have received over they years.  I’ve worked with Lisa on a number of projects and the work she leads implementing IBM solutions is one […]

John Boezeman and Tyler Tribe presented on Mobile in IBM’s Web Experience Platforms (e.g. WebSphere Portal, IBM WCM, and assorted other technologies like web analytics, forms, etc.)  it started out well but Tyler Tribe tended to drone a bit.  We all know what a site needs so get on with it. Fortunately, it got better […]

John Boezeman and Tyler Tribe presented on Mobile in IBM’s Web Experience Platforms (e.g. WebSphere Portal, IBM WCM, and assorted other technologies like web analytics, forms, etc.)  it started out well but Tyler Tribe tended to drone a bit.  We all know what a site needs so get on with it. Fortunately, it got better […]

Hot on the heels of my post on the general ease of mobile prototyping and the number of tools available on the market to quickly generate these prototypes, Alexis Piperides (CEO of Proto.io) just published an article for .Net Magazine. Alexis’s article provides a deeper dive into mobile prototyping with additional information and guidance on mobile […]

The session at IBM Connect 2013 Create Multi-Channel Websites with Rational Application Developer (RAD,) IBM WebSphere Portal and Worklight, covered many of the latest tools and techniques for developing multi-channel applications.  A multi-channel application is one that supports multiple client platforms most often multiple mobile devices and traditional browsers.  Much of this session focuses on […]

Over the course of the last four years, I’ve worked on many “mini-mobile” websites—that is to say, a client tasks us with picking a half-dozen “important” pages from the full website and building them out in mobile-friendly ways with an m.website.com URL. The crucial point here is, who is to say what is “important” to […]

Is your enterprise or department ready and prepared for the next suite and portfolio of mobile apps? Are you ready to take your department beyond the mail and calendar app on the device? You are chomping at the bit and would love to get your enterprise on-board the mobile apps train. But hold on! Do […]

One of the primary principles in designing forms for the web is to keep them as simple and easy as possible. You can generally expect about a 15% drop off for every step in the process – literally every field in the form – as each discrete step is  an opportunity for the user to […]

Prototyping is by far my favorite activity to perform as a UX Designer, followed up naturally with user research. Prototyping is a natural problem solving technique that allows you to quickly create a vision of the solution, or multiple solutions, for a design problem and share that vision with others. In most cases, it’s cheap […]

According to IDEO, “Design Thinking is a about believing we can make a difference, and having an intentional process in order to get to new relevant solutions that create positive impact.” It is also described as being human-centered, collaborative, optimistic and experimental. IDEO follows an open-source process to implement Design Thinking by dividing it into the […]

In part 1 of this series (see Social Intranet Technologies, Part 1), I talked about many different technologies or systems that make up a social intranet.  In this post, I want to expand the list of technologies, and discuss briefly several technologies that often get overlooked, but can be an important part of a great […]

Being on the bench gives a man more time to do what he truly enjoys: mindlessly playing around with new technologies, APIs and generally making a lot of cool stuff that doesn’t really do anything. Enter…the gyroscope! What is a gyroscope? No, it is not a telescope that automatically zooms in on the nearest Greek […]