Posts Tagged ‘user experience’

Last week I got the chance to speak at the St. Louis Day of .Net Conference for the 3rd year in a row. I love coming and speaking at this conference because I’m always amazed at the attendees interest in User Experience. It’s a welcome sight to see at a developer based conference. I’d like […]

Many times when we begin a project we start by sitting down with the user and drafting a requirements document. After a few days of organization we come up with wireframes and a general idea of what we understand, and then we wait for user feedback. This is the way things are done, but is […]

Brad Nunnally in our User Experience group pushed this out to a bunch of people via Yammer which we are starting to use a bunch.  Anyway, Fred Beecher does a great job of describing the pains of using a requirements driven approach and where it fails.  He also has a nice graphic outlining a hybrid […]

A friend of mine recently showed me an excellent TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Blink, Outliers and Tipping Point. The insights in his books have always been entertaining and he has a great way of bringing data to life. In the video below, he recounts the story of a friend who, in his work as a psycho-physicist, uncovers […]

Now that the newest Android tablets (Motorola XOOM and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1) have come close to matching Apple’s iPad in terms of fit and functionality, I expect the demand for Android tablets to show a marked increase in sales.  There has been a considerable amount of material written around Android smartphone  User Experience (UX) […]

Here is a story of how a major hotel chain instantly got a huge ROI on portal… in the wrong direction! What Happened A major hotel chain had a metric that for every second they could cut from call handle time netted $108,000 a year in savings.  It is easy to see how converting the […]

A new healthcare startup called Massive Health has been getting a lot of buzz recently. They are still in–as they call it–“ninja mode,” so there aren’t a lot of details about the products and services they will be offering. But it’s clear that the company is going to be focusing on driving behavior change by […]

As a user experience designer, my goal is to help design products and software that are as easy, efficient, and enjoyable to use as possible. A critical part of this design process involves understanding the needs of the various stakeholders–everything from the need for end users to be able to use the product without hassle […]

FYI: I have posted a newer article that outlines a pure CSS solution for accomplishing this task. In SharePoint 2010 the navigation menus have been greatly improved. They now produce standards compliant HTML that can be custom styled without limitations. SharePoint 2007 came with an optional master page that was configured to show sub menu […]

A couple of projects ago my team created a SharePoint site with a background image that stays full size of the browser window. Recently I created it again with jQuery. To do it right takes a combination of jQuery, CSS, and HTML. To view my full working demo follow this link: View Demo | View […]