Simplisites

Usability best practices may not always be the best thing for the actual user. Here is a story of one lesson learned.

I realized something about myself recently. I’m failing my blog readers, and I blame it all on “web thinking.”

To best know your users, you have to get inside their heads and learn their true motivations.

Some sites that are considered to be highly user-friendly are not necessarily the most beautiful ones.

Know what your goals are and the goals of your users to determine if you need lots of links and content for general users or simplicity and clarity for browsing users.

Simplisites is upgrading.

I’m working on creating a site more focused on how I can help you reach your usability goals. Please excuse my mess!

The mysterious “click here” link could be anything. It runs rampant on the web causing chaos and confusion while killing your SEO.

When and how do you use icons to enhance your site? Use them when they are relevant and have clear meaning to your users!

So the Sharepoint project rages on…with very little in-house knowledge of the platform. Programmers, writers, designers, UI team–none of us quite have the background we need to really make Sharepoint sing. So we’ve been training and reading and working with experts to get it right. One thing I learned early on and have now seen [...]

It’s happened to all of us at one time or another. A great project is pitched that will completely revitalize your website, update old interfaces, enhance old functionality and create a user-centric experience. (JOY!) Then it happens — a scope is approved that seems to look nothing like the original project concept. It’s tough to [...]

To Sharepoint or not to Sharepoint… It’s a million-dollar question for sure. Sharepoint has gained a lot of momentum, but will it last? Until recently, I did not know very much about this tool, and I honestly saw it only as a file-storage system. That’s because many companies only use it as such, and never [...]