You may have wondered why the heck I don’t blog. If you’ve met me, I have a TON to say. I am always standing on my soapbox. I tell Mark Miller of End User SharePoint and Jeremy Thake of SharePoint Dev Wiki that I have tons of blog posts that I just have to review [...]
*update to post* This post contained images that were not optimized for the web due to export error. Please check out SharePoint Saturday Columbus Photos here in SmugMug
Have you ever sat in front of a client and heard them say, “We don’t care what it looks like as long as it doesn’t look like SharePoint.” If so, you have heard the most common request for SharePoint Design. Hopefully that is changing. The comic below illustrates how silly this requirement is.
I went to the Microsoft MIX conference in March. These are the sessions that I still have on my IPhone for listening to later. ALL session videos are FREE to ALL of the web, not just attendees. Total Experience Design, Paul Dawson (EMC) Paul presented the first UX design session I attended. His British accent [...]
**Links updated 5/10/2012** This page contains a list of resources useful for SharePoint 2010 Branding, User Interface, Design and Web Content Management solutions (Right click to open link in a new window) As I was researching SharePoint 2010 Design for our new book Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 (wrox), I collected several links to good resources. [...]
I’m heading back to Washington DC to present at SharePoint Saturday on May 15th, 2010. My session is about “Managing Design in a SharePoint Project.” Although it isn’t the most interesting title, and it doesn’t once mention the word “crap”, it’s chock full of delicious morsels of experience that I want to share. The purpose [...]
Designing Intuitive SharePoint Sites View more presentations from Marcy Kellar.
Prologue: Aligning Thoughts and Ideas Introduction A prologue (Greek prologos), or prolog, is a preface to the story. It sets up the story, giving background details and other miscellaneous information. This is the prologue for a series of articles on User Experience Design (UED) in SharePoint. The series is intended to improve the success of [...]
Branding alone cannot support the user experience in SharePoint. The successful redesign of an existing SharePoint site is dependent on multiple factors that are often overlooked.
This session is designed for Architects, Designers, and IT Pros and includes the following:
-Common Causes of Branding Problems in SharePoint
-Demonstration of “crappy content” and impact on branding
Overview of the elements of User Experience (UX)
-Methods to improve user experience and overall look and feel without touching a master page
I’m presenting at SharePoint Saturday DC on December 5th. My Topic? ”Why Branding Won’t Fix Crappy Content: Real World UX & IA Discussion”. If you have an example (or horror story) about “crappy content” that vexed your branding, please submit it here and I may use it to build my demo. The demo will be made [...]
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