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Tag: ux (page 8)
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The Two Most Overlooked Opportunities in Corporate America
"Why should the business pay for that? How will that impact top line revenue?" Although it may have been a while since you asked or have been asked either of these questions at your place of business, I bet you are familiar with them — and just as familiar with
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The 2 Biggest Time Sucks in Corporate America
"Please shoot me now! I can't do it anymore! Why does everything have to be so slow and painful? There has got to be a better way!" Does this sound familiar? Although it may have been a while since you heard or muttered any of these phrases at work, I
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Raising the Bar for the Enterprise Software User Experience
In December, The Wall Street Journal reported that Avon Products, Inc. had spent 4 years and $125 million with SAP on a major software project that was being terminated.
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How Awesomeness Dies
The Fairy Tale So many people believe the fairy tale that goes something like this: A business exists to make a profit and a for-profit business should not engage in unprofitable behavior.
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6 Ways to Spot a UX Poseur
I don't like writing "top tip list” articles even though they get lots of readers. I don't like writing SharePoint articles, even though they get even more readers. I don't like “UX litmus tests” (UX is for user experience). I don't like any of these things.
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The App Marketplace has a Target on Its Back
Everyone claims the jury is in — and the app marketplace has won. But the browser and those who support it are fighting back with a vengeance. I saw a bunch of fun and interesting stuff at last month's Velocity conference in New York City.
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SugarCRM's New CRM Experience Focuses on Individuals
SugarCRM is releasing a new experience that it claims fuses simplicity, mobility and social aspects of a consumer app with the business process optimization of conventional customer relationship management (CRM).
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Put Yourself in the Customer's Shoes for Great UX Design
Too many companies approach design from their own point of view and too few really look at how customers actually use products, according to a report on user experience (UX) design.
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DevOps Practitioners: Practice What You Preach
Steve Souders, a web performance engineer at Google, was a bit disheartened when he made his closing remarks at the recent Velocity conference in New York City. "It's been seven years. I thought we'd be done by now," he said.
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Why Most People Know X But Do Y and What You Can Do About It
If pain shared is pain divided, then the UX community should be happy that they are not alone in their Don Quixote quest to get people to join their crusade for the good of enterprises, employees and users.
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Grow Up! Evaluating the Maturity of Your User Experience Strategy
Successful product designers and developers know that good user experience (UX) is the key to success in both traditional and digital domains. And yet, the enterprise continues to under-invest in the functions that inform meaningful improvements to UX.
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UX Litmus Test or Oxymoron? You Decide
Last month I intentionally wrote an article about a horrific experience working with a developer on a multi-disciplinary project. In doing so, I unintentionally inspired a fierce dialogue with one of my personal UX heroes -- Stephen Taylor (otherwise known as Anomalogue) that revolved around the concept of whether or
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A UX Horror Story: Ways to Make Your UX Partner Lose Their S#!t
I have come full circle. Several years ago, I wrote a personal blog entitled "What's Holding Back UX" whose premise was that pretentiousness was the mortal enemy of the UX discipline.
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ClickTale Secures US $17M in Funding for Product Development
In-Page Analytics innovator, ClickTale has received US $17 million from Amadeus Capital Partners to invigorate product development and company expansion. A True-to-Life Investment Other investors in the Series B growth stage funding include Goldrock Capital and Viola Credit, Israel’s leading venture lending fund. The investment will help ClickTale as they
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