Posts tagged Design
SharePoint Out-of-the-Box Solution Approach
31 year ago
by tpham211
in SharePoint
I manage a team of business analysts that support users and power users.
We are slammed on a regular basis of requests that fit neatly in between support calls and software development projects.
Out-of-the-box Solutions in SharePoint do not need the lengthy Software Development Life Cycle process. But having managed software projects in the past, I recognize the importance of the governance that such a process brings.
Below are not some theoretical, in-a-perfect-world approach that we pretend to adhere to. Rather, they are actual steps that I oversee to manage the sanity levels of the short-staffed team I have in place.
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Flash Still Bad
0A colleague of mine sent this to me. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html
Why is a nearly 10 year old article relevant now? Well, because 10 years ago, we weren’t going to User Experience Meet-Ups, Interaction Designers were still called Web Masters and no one was tweeting. (more…)
Good-bye Lorem Ipsum
2Let’s face it. Lorem Ipsum is so 1995. Every web designer out there has encountered, during a presentation of a concept website design, whereby the audience member/client starts reading the text placeholder and says, “I don’t understand what this is”.
For years I’ve gone to http://www.lipsum.com/ to generate Lorem Ipsum for my mock sites and design comps. Those days are finally behind us. Here are some gems that I’ve found:
Misuse of Visual Continuity
11 year ago
Last week I posted an article on Visual Continuity. I gave a good example and a bad example. Here is an example of Visual Continuity gone wrong. Where they used all the visual cues but then proceed to beat it to death.
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It is a screen capture of my iPhone after installing the Gucci theme. (more…)
Visual Continuity
22 years ago
Today, I came across this. It was hanging on a wall an IMF’s HQ1 cafe.
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It is a small poster that Sodexo put up as a part of the PR campaign to introduce IMF members to their service.
Notice the 14 icons/flares/symbols? This is what you call visual continuity. Each icon, by itself, is unique. Yet, they are bound to each other through the color palette, shape, drop-shadown and stroke.
This is an example of good visual continuity – so good that I stopped what I was doing to snap a picture and now writing about it. (more…)
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