Lonneke Dikmans Ultan Ó Broin User experience is an essential part of the design, development and implementation of enterprise applications. But how can you ensure a successful applications implementation, one where usability requirements are met and matched with business strategy? Understanding applications users and keeping them at the center of the design and deployment process is how. The Oracle UX Direct program makes it easy to introduce a user centered design process into your product development strategy. The program shares Oracle user experience insight, resources, and industry best practices to make enterprise applications implementation successful. This lecture takes you on a tour of the UX Direct website and how to begin discovering, designing, and deploying great usable applications that provide a return on investment for the entire business.

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2. Enterprise UX Design
and Deployment, Simplified
Introducing Oracle’s
UX Direct Program
Ultan Ó Broin (@usableapps)
Director, Oracle Applications
User Experience
Lonneke Dikmans (@lonnekedikmans)
OUAX Designated Speaker
Managing Partner, Vennster NL
March 18, 2014
Nieuwegein, NL

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UX Discovery, Design, DeploymentDEMO

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Why Do You Need UX in Your Implementation?
Moving from a technology focus to a UX focus
User experience
User experience is now the key
differentiator driving IT transformation
from a technology focus to
a user experience focus

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Oracle UX Direct Program
• UX Direct is a program introduced by the Oracle Applications
User Experience (UX) team to provide user experience best
practices to our consultants, customers and partners --
making enterprise software implementations easier.
• The goal of this program is to introduce user-centered
designs into the enterprise implementation cycle and
improve user adoption of Oracle applications.

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What Do We Offer?
ü A centralized resource
ü UX design process
ü Tools
ü Checklists
ü Templates
ü UX design patterns
ü Success stories

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Design With User's Role in Mind
§ Remember that the end user is not YOU
§ Understand your user’s mental models
§ Collect user info using our User Profile template
§ Leverage Oracle’s “User Profile” database
§ Use the Task Matrix template to come up with the
tasks that users perform 80% of the time

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Design with Consistency in Mind
§ Consistency helps users with
their learning, recognition,
and memory
§ Follow a consistent pattern
within your application
§ Use Oracle’s UX design
patterns to solve your design
problems
§ Don’t re-invent; re-use tested
patterns
Use our design patterns
Landing Page
without Tabs
Landing Page
with Tabs
Does the user’s work revolve
around a primary object or
business process?
Yes No
Does the user need to perform
small tasks across multiple,
related objects or tasks?
No Yes
Can the information be logically
grouped on one landing page?
Yes No

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Oracle’s User Experience Strategy is About …
Simplicity
Easily access the
essential information
and actions to support
your work.
Mobility
Optimized UIs for
wherever and however
you work.
Extensibility
Tailor the user experience
to best fit your company’s
identity and business
processes.

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Learn More About Oracle Apps UX Online
• Oracle.com/UsableApps
• Blogs.oracle.com/VoX
• Blogs.oracle.com/UsableApps
• @usableapps

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