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Have you ever wanted to create a new and different User Experience on top of a tried and true delivery platform? That is just what a new book published by Apress and written by my EMC Colleague Erik Swenson teaches people how to do.  I recently had the pleasure of previewing a copy and participating in editing those chapters that pertained ...

A good SharePoint corporate intranet site is concerned in many ways with empowering collaboration between employees and facilitating more effective internal communications.  It may also be about promoting better document management policies and procedures, and making people more effective in their respective positions by giving them easy ...

As an enthusiast of Software Development, I imagine that You have already been exposed to the term 'Personas' before in the context of a User Centered Design discussion.  In this article I intend to explain what 'User Journeys' are, how to create them, and why they are more appropriate for use in an enterprise Corporate Intranet design ...

Think Web 2.0 is all about Social Networking and the Personalized Taxonomy? Your mileage may vary. We’ve all heard the hype about the dramatically improved Social Networking tools within SharePoint 2010, but what does it really mean to implement these tools in a corporate intranet environment?  How does the use of Social Networking tools ...

Good IA for SP2010 is about having a scalable design plan and sticking to it.   As you plan out the Sitemap and Taxonomy for Your SharePoint deployment, it’s important to remember that establishing a logical over-arching Site Structure for your corporate intranet must take precedence over the temptation to implement the latest trends in ...

User Activity Feeds with SharePoint 2010 & Newsgator Social Sites or 'If you want Facebook-like Activity Feeds in SP 2010?, It may be more work than you imagined.' By now You’ve probably had the opportunity to play around with ‘best of breed’ Social Networking tools like Facebook, Jive, or DIGG!.  What you may not know is that many ...

As User Experience matures as a discipline and the mainstream gets and values UX this has made us think harder about recruiting User Experience talent.  I look back at my CV of old and remember my previous job applications, and now that I’m looking from the inside out and recruiting for our UX team, it seems that things have got a whole ...

Do you want to work with awesome brands including Tesco, Virgin Media, BBC & Barclays?  Do you have an inherent belief in applying User Centered Design techniques to create intuitive, usable and inspired experiences? If so, we have several opportunities available for talented, experienced, UX rockstars, as either User ...

A few months back I posted a collection of Microsoft Surface tips from the Twitter hashtag #Surfacetip. The 140 character limit is somewhat challenging so I'm planning to tackle these tips one-by-one in a tad more detail.I’ll start with a simple tip, but one that resonates with me from recent projects, and that is ensuring that everyone ...

Last week Hungry Hippo came to Microsoft Surface.  As a child I munched my way through many a white plastic marble so I am fascinated to see how this classic children’s board game takes to a digital makeover. A number of puzzles, board games and arcade games have already been given the Surface treatment. Last month the ...