Posts Tagged ‘user experience’

Both Sides of the Coin (Part 1 of 2) Welcome back!  In my last post, I introduced the topic of user experience (UX) in SharePoint, and spent a little time explaining why it’s so important.  Today, as part of this continuing series on SharePoint User Experience (SPUX? Can I call it that?), I’m going to […]

It looks like Rich Wood is well on his way as this is the second time I’ve posted on a nice post of his.  I’ll let Rich’s post stand by itself and just re-iterate my thoughts on the importance of UX.  User Experience counts the overall experience a user has on a specific site. It […]

What BMW, New Balance, and a Successful SharePoint Project Have In Common Today, I’m kicking off a series of posts around User Experience and SharePoint.  Over the course of the next few weeks, I want to cover this topic in some serious detail, because (as I’ve said before and I’ll surely say again), it’s one […]

This article is being shared and re-posted a lot today across a variety of social networks. TechCrunch published an article titled “User Experience and the Poison on the Tip of the Arrow“. In the post, Uzi Schmilovici argues that “amazing design is not enough.” “Real design is about solving problems,” he says, and ultimately a […]

I have worked with many developers and designers on both front-end websites and back-end applications. Working through the user experience of an interface is one of the most important elements in any of these projects, and in the last couple of years, I have been fortunate enough to have worked with project managers and developers […]

First off, I’d like to shake the rust off of my keyboard and state that I’m extremely excited to be back in the blogosphere.  That goes for consulting in general, and working with Wisconsin clients in particular.  There’s just something about helping out friends, connections and worthy businesses in my home state that has always […]

Thanks to Carol Smith from our User Experience group for pointing this out on Yammer.  In the portal and social world, we have struggled to pull User Experience activities into a sprint based approach like Scrum.  We’ve started down the path on a couple project but Jon Innes has an article at boxes and arrows […]

User experience, at its best, is about empathy with the people who use the products and services we design. However, not all organizations start a user experience practice with empathy as a goal. Of the many options to cultivate empathy in your organization, consider how you talk about the practice of user experience design. This […]

Getting YouTube videos to PAUSE nice with each other I don’t know if YouTube had in mind for us to put more than one video on a page. It didn’t seem like it when I set out to make one player pause other videos when it was played. By the end I found that YouTube […]

No organization builds a SharePoint environment with the goal of creating a poor user experience. Yet, many organizations do not plan for, adopt and design for an intuitive, user-friendly SharePoint environment. So, why does this happen? It often stems from not understanding the business case behind user experience design and the value it will bring […]

Last week I joined Enlighten (now Perficient Digital) senior interaction designer Krysta Stone at the 2011 Internet User Experience Conference here in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was great to see so many familiar faces from the local User Experience community, as well as meet newcomers, and, in some cases, finally put a face with a […]

It’s almost redundant to talk about aggressive project schedules. The constantly evolving demands of markets, strong competition for market leadership, and increasing expectations for engaging user experiences require rapid delivery of products and services. While delivery may have to meet these schedules one way or another, true innovation rarely follows a Gantt chart so docilely. […]