Heather Solomon is BACK!! The original SharePoint branding guru has has a beautiful new SharePoint 2010 blog. Check out her post, “Just the Essentials” SharePoint Master Pages She has put together three different SharePoint 2010 starter master page files for download. These include master pages for both non-publishing and publishing sites. All are heavily commented. [...]
I’ve been attending Microsoft Conferences since 2007. I can confidently say that I would not be where I am today if it weren’t for these events. I’d like to think I’ve done a decent job of making the most out of my time there. There’s always room for improvement though. And here are my 11 [...]
In the first article in this series on SharePoint 2010 My Sites, you learned about several usability issues in SharePoint 2010 My Sites. The original idea of this series was to interview real users to discover the pain points for analysis of My Sites’ usability. One of the users that volunteered to provide feedback was [...]
One of the most valuable experiences I’ve had is listening to other people share the issues they’ve had on SharePoint User Interface Design or Branding projects. I’ve also encountered several issues and “SharePoint Sucker Punches” that earned me some stripes. To help my fellow branders, project managers, designers and anyone responsible for the success of [...]
SharePoint My Sites are personal sites for users to store their own content, links, feeds, connect and collaborate with teammates and express themselves creatively. Each SharePoint installation offers one My Site per user if the feature is activated. I have heard many complaints about the usability of SharePoint 2010 My Sites particularly the navigation. This [...]
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 Print PDF
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. Print PDF
**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. [...]
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
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