October 7, 2012 by James Robertson
Enterprise software applications aren’t “designed”. At best, they’re “developed”, but often they’re just “built”. Whether provided by a software vendor, or created in-house, enterprise solutions are heavy on developers, and it shows. There may be a number of BAs involved, but typically not UX folk or designers. The result are solution that at best meet [...]
Tags: design, design thinking, intranet, mobile
May 22, 2011 by James Robertson
SharePoint is many things, but out of the box, beautiful isn’t one of them. The boxy design and shades of blue isn’t ugly per-se, but do little to inspire adoption and enthusiasm. It used to be said that it was too hard to make SharePoint beautiful, but the following selection of examples show otherwise (you [...]
Tags: brand, branding, design, Intranets, SharePoint