Posts Tagged ‘UX’

Use Cases Determine Design A few weeks ago LinkedIn released their iPad app; it was immediately praised for it’s slick interface and immediate usability. With a full-featured and flexible site like LinkedIn, most users expect a recreation of the original desktop website with a minor design change for tablets. What LinkedIn actually delivered shows more […]

Part 2 of Part II: UX through SharePoint-colored glasses (Recommended reading: Start with the first part of this rather lengthy post. You’ll be glad you did.  You wouldn’t haved wanted to start Games of Thrones with Season 2, now would you?  Well, maybe if you were a big Ned Stark fan, I’d get that, but… […]

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 […]

Responsive Web Design is all over the place right now. Some of it’s even on the Internet! And many of you are doubtless thinking, “Self, how can I get some of that hotness?” Well, you’re in luck! (But only if you promise to stop referring to yourself as “self” when you think out-loud). On April […]

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 […]

Tomer Sharon’s book, “It’s Our Research: Getting stakeholder buy-in for user experience research projects” just came out and though I’m still reading it, I am already ready to recommend it (disclaimer: I contributed a Case Study to it). Earlier this month I was fortunate enough to attend and speak at the IA Summit and not surprisingly I […]

Personas are incredibly helpful at informing project teams because they are powerful mnemonics for large amounts of data. They combine our ability to perceive and recognize other human faces and our ability to remember stories in a light, accessible document. Personas are based on deep research of the users through interviews, observations, and other reliable […]

Valentine’s Day is about celebrating people we care about. It seems like a good holiday to focus on increasing our empathy and compassion for our customers and our users. Here are a few perspectives on why empathy is good for innovation and success as well as thoughts on cultivating compassion.