Category Archives: User Experience

Designing is Getting Touchy

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Bill

Introduction Last Thursday, I joined other local TriUPA members and listened to Josh Clark‘s webinar titled “Buttons are a Hack”. He ostensibly was trying to get us to do more with gestures and less with traditional windows controls, menus, and … Continue reading →

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Web Analysis Project

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Bill

There are many ways to interpret a web site. Through user interfaces, design patterns, business achievements, and social acceptance, one can obtain a general and sufficient understanding of a web site and what it has to offer. I am developing … Continue reading →

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Gauging Social Media

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Bill

I know that social media is sort of a soft topic for some companies – especially if you are not dealing with the general public. But with the rise of mobile devices and expectations that information should be available with … Continue reading →

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Minimalist Window Top Design

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Bill

I have been noticing recently that this generation of Window applications and Web applications have a very minimalist approach to what appears at the top of the window or page. Rather than take up valuable screen real estate with branding … Continue reading →

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Usage Stages of a Web App

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Bill

Overview Lately I have been thinking about web applications (web apps) and the importance of the user experience. I have been thinking about if it is at all possible to simplify and standardize how we talk about that user experience. … Continue reading →

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The Force of Salesforce

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Bill

We have a great local Salesforce user group, the Raleigh Salesforce.com User Group. Thanks to Deborah, Amber, Karen, Kelly and the rest for making it work! We had a great meeting today. Each time I go, there are more people … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Disruptions (NOT Trends)

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Bill

The recent technological advances are not “emerging”, and they are not a “tectonic shift”. If we are going to use biological or geological metaphors, then they are “exploding”; they are “an earthquake”; they are disruptive and they are forcing a … Continue reading →

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User Scenarios in Five Acts

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Bill

This past month has been a flurry of activity with the design of a new Web application interface and I have to say there are challenges at many levels. I am working on a team that takes Agile processes seriously. … Continue reading →

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User Participation Design

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Bill

I’m getting tired of focusing on user interface design. At my work, lately, we have been using the car analogy – referring to the back end software as the engine (which does all the important work) and the user interface … Continue reading →

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Context Strategy

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Bill

Here are my Top 10 tips about how we talk about the design of the user experience. We often focus on the user interface and forget about the overall experience. For my work on Web applications, which are different from … Continue reading →

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