AD112: Usability Lessons From the Worlds Largest XPages Project (MWLUG)

AD112: Usability Lessons From the Worlds Largest XPages ProjectAndrew BarickmanPractice Leader – CollaborationPSC Group@ajbarickmanajbarickman@psclistens.com

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AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesAbout Me• Nearly 20 years delivering Lotus / Notes Domino work• Started at Lotus in Boston• Manage PSC’s Collaboration Practice at PSC • Delivery • Personnel • Sales Support • Team and Project Technical Direction• Contact Information • abarickman@psclistens.com • @ajbarickman

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesAgenda• The Application• Define Usability• Lesson One – Performance• Lesson Two – Activity Indicators• Lesson Three – Views• Questions

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesThe Worlds Largest? Really?• 100,000 Users• 105 Countries• 12 different resources from PSC• Nearly 1 million dollars• Modalities – The promise of XPages • 4 Browsers • Notes – Connected & Notes – Disconnected • Mobile

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesWhat does it do?• Highly tailored Team Room• Manages the content for all of their customer engagements• Full application lifecycle management

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesApplication Design / Constraints• Limited to 8.5.2 due to roll out constraints• Thousands of instances of the same design spread across many servers• Self contained so that it can be replicated and used locally• Support all different modalities that XPages allows• YEARS of highly complex, business specific and customized code

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesWhat is Usability? That which makes your users say I like that application.

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesPerformance• If the application does not perform nothing else you do to it matters • Single Copy XPage design • Major XPINC performance improvement in 8.5.4 (in CD4 now) • Preloading

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesVisibility Indicators• Where is my lightning bolt?• Users need to know that something is happening• Two Levels Demoed • Good • Best

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesGetting Views on the Web Right• XPages and web development require a new approach• Fundamentally different than in Notes• Key interface to nearly every application you build• Get it right and your users will love you

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesViews – Out of the Box FAILYeah… like I am going to page to get to what I want

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesViews – Search C-Your users don’t know FT search syntax…

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesViews – Query Builder B+ C-

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesViews – EXTJS Grid A+

AD102: Usability Lessons - XPagesViews – EXTJS Grid Architecture

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AD112: Usability Lessons From the Worlds Largest XPages Project (MWLUG)

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