This document provides a summary of Marc Anderson's background and expertise. Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC located in Newton, MA. He has over 30 years of experience in technology consulting and software development. He is also the author of the popular SPServices library and was awarded a Microsoft MVP award for several years. The document outlines Marc's focus on enabling collaboration using SharePoint and highlights some of his areas of expertise including customizing SharePoint and improving the user experience.
SharePointFest Konferenz 2016 - Alternative Approaches to Solution Developmen...Marc D Anderson
We regularly hear about the importance of building Apps or Add-Ins from the Microsoft folks. But in many cases, that approach is overkill. Even in enterprises, all solutions aren’t enterprise scale. It’s always been possible to build solid solutions or solution components using the trusty Content Editor Web Part to hold some HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and that’s still a viable approach. With a few other more modern tricks, we can even build solutions that span many pages using a common code base.
Join Marc D Anderson as he kicks around the plusses and minuses of sanctioned development versus smaller, lighter-touch approaches.
SharePointFest Konferenz 2016 - Creating a Great User Experience in SharePointMarc D Anderson
Building solutions in SharePoint isn’t simply about getting the functionality right based on the business requirements. Developers must think about the entire user experience (UX), which goes far beyond the technical aspects of the solution. It’s no longer good enough to meet the specifications. We must exceed them in terms of usability. This takes many developers out of their comfort zones and into the messy world of end users.In this interactive session, we’ll discuss questions like:* How should the user feel when they use this piece of functionality?* Will they perceive that this functionality saves them work or creates new work?* How will the functionality compare to what they see on the consumer Web?* How can we use technologies which haven’t historically been considered mainstream SharePoint developer tools (like jQuery and CSS) to make SharePoint feel more like the sites people love?We’ll look at good and bad examples from SharePoint itself as well as specific customizations.
SPTechCon Boston 2016 - Creating a Great User Experience in SharePointMarc D Anderson
Building solutions in SharePoint isn’t simply about getting the functionality right based on the business requirements. Developers must think about the entire user experience. In this interactive class, we’ll discuss questions like: How should the user feel when they use this piece of functionality? Will they see it as saving them work or creating new work? How will it compare to what they see on the consumer Web? We’ll look at good and bad examples from SharePoint itself, as well as specific customizations.
SPS Jersey 2014 - Creating a Great User Experience in SharePointMarc D Anderson
Building solutions in SharePoint isn’t simply about getting the functionality right based on the business requirements. Developers must think about the entire user experience (UX), which goes far beyond the technical aspects of the solution. It’s no longer good enough to meet the specifications. We must exceed them in terms of usability. This takes many developers out of their comfort zones and into the messy world of end users.
In this interactive session, we’ll discuss questions like:
* How should the user feel when they use this piece of functionality?
* Will they perceive that this functionality saves them work or creates new work?
* How will the functionality compare to what they see on the consumer Web?
* How can we use technologies which haven’t historically been considered mainstream SharePoint developer tools (like jQuery and CSS) to make SharePoint feel more like the sites people love?
Whether you're an executive sponsor, end user, power user, developer, or IT Pro, there are bound to be some takeaways for you as you adapt SharePoint to meet your organization's needs.
Sam Marshall of ClearBox consulting and David Francoeur, of Bonzai taking a non-technical look at intranet search, to help you improve results and the overall experience.
If you're responsible for search configuration then we welcome you, but this webinar is also for intranet managers and digital team members who care about content and ensuring the intranet is truly useful to colleagues.
The business cost of poor search
Why intranet search is hard
How to improve the search user experience
Ways to diagnose why search fails
Quick ways to enhance your search results.
Chatbots are fast becoming a mainstream element in the modern workplace. Our webinar will explore the steps involved in implementing a workplace chatbot from concept to execution, including:
Getting started with a workplace bot: Where to begin? What are the most important steps? What are the most critical use cases? What is the long-term commitment?
Bots for employee services: Where are they needed most? Where do they work best? How do they tie in with applications like Workday and ServiceNow?
Success factors: What does success look like? How do you ensure your bot is helpful and not hype?
SharePointFest Konferenz 2016 - Alternative Approaches to Solution Developmen...Marc D Anderson
We regularly hear about the importance of building Apps or Add-Ins from the Microsoft folks. But in many cases, that approach is overkill. Even in enterprises, all solutions aren’t enterprise scale. It’s always been possible to build solid solutions or solution components using the trusty Content Editor Web Part to hold some HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and that’s still a viable approach. With a few other more modern tricks, we can even build solutions that span many pages using a common code base.
Join Marc D Anderson as he kicks around the plusses and minuses of sanctioned development versus smaller, lighter-touch approaches.
SharePointFest Konferenz 2016 - Creating a Great User Experience in SharePointMarc D Anderson
Building solutions in SharePoint isn’t simply about getting the functionality right based on the business requirements. Developers must think about the entire user experience (UX), which goes far beyond the technical aspects of the solution. It’s no longer good enough to meet the specifications. We must exceed them in terms of usability. This takes many developers out of their comfort zones and into the messy world of end users.In this interactive session, we’ll discuss questions like:* How should the user feel when they use this piece of functionality?* Will they perceive that this functionality saves them work or creates new work?* How will the functionality compare to what they see on the consumer Web?* How can we use technologies which haven’t historically been considered mainstream SharePoint developer tools (like jQuery and CSS) to make SharePoint feel more like the sites people love?We’ll look at good and bad examples from SharePoint itself as well as specific customizations.
SPTechCon Boston 2016 - Creating a Great User Experience in SharePointMarc D Anderson
Building solutions in SharePoint isn’t simply about getting the functionality right based on the business requirements. Developers must think about the entire user experience. In this interactive class, we’ll discuss questions like: How should the user feel when they use this piece of functionality? Will they see it as saving them work or creating new work? How will it compare to what they see on the consumer Web? We’ll look at good and bad examples from SharePoint itself, as well as specific customizations.
SPS Jersey 2014 - Creating a Great User Experience in SharePointMarc D Anderson
Building solutions in SharePoint isn’t simply about getting the functionality right based on the business requirements. Developers must think about the entire user experience (UX), which goes far beyond the technical aspects of the solution. It’s no longer good enough to meet the specifications. We must exceed them in terms of usability. This takes many developers out of their comfort zones and into the messy world of end users.
In this interactive session, we’ll discuss questions like:
* How should the user feel when they use this piece of functionality?
* Will they perceive that this functionality saves them work or creates new work?
* How will the functionality compare to what they see on the consumer Web?
* How can we use technologies which haven’t historically been considered mainstream SharePoint developer tools (like jQuery and CSS) to make SharePoint feel more like the sites people love?
Whether you're an executive sponsor, end user, power user, developer, or IT Pro, there are bound to be some takeaways for you as you adapt SharePoint to meet your organization's needs.
Sam Marshall of ClearBox consulting and David Francoeur, of Bonzai taking a non-technical look at intranet search, to help you improve results and the overall experience.
If you're responsible for search configuration then we welcome you, but this webinar is also for intranet managers and digital team members who care about content and ensuring the intranet is truly useful to colleagues.
The business cost of poor search
Why intranet search is hard
How to improve the search user experience
Ways to diagnose why search fails
Quick ways to enhance your search results.
Chatbots are fast becoming a mainstream element in the modern workplace. Our webinar will explore the steps involved in implementing a workplace chatbot from concept to execution, including:
Getting started with a workplace bot: Where to begin? What are the most important steps? What are the most critical use cases? What is the long-term commitment?
Bots for employee services: Where are they needed most? Where do they work best? How do they tie in with applications like Workday and ServiceNow?
Success factors: What does success look like? How do you ensure your bot is helpful and not hype?
Business aspects of social software and collaboration Ed Brill
Web 2.0, social software, blogs, wikis, instant messaging. New tools and new ways of approaching communication and coordination among customers, suppliers, and partners. Software to help companies share information has been around for more than 15 years. How do the new tools intersect with existing ones? How can you best leverage new technologies for faster time-to-market and increased customer satisfaction? What is the role of security in an increasingly open supply-chain communication system? We'll examine these questions and talk about current and future technologies and trends.
Content-Centric Design The Future of Online User AssistanceEdward Galore
Content accessed online is often stripped of its hierarchical relationship to related content. Help articles must be encapsulated with metadata so that they can be understood when discovered or accessed out their original content repository. By embedding context within the the content object, the content will remain comprehensible even when accessed without the original information structure.
Put Your Content on Mobile Devices Using Responsive HTML5 (STC New england IN...Deborah Sauer
The reality: Information is available instantly… on our phone, tablet, and computer. Have a question? Look it up using your phone. Expectations have been set. Our users want to be able to access our information with equal ease. How do we meet this need? Delivering information in responsive HTML5 format allows you to make your content available to your users on multiple platforms. Using the responsive HTML5 output functionality built into FrameMaker, you can quickly and easily create output that users can access from a phone, tablet, or computer. Output is easily updateable so you can deliver the latest information without having to wait until the next software release. Responsive HTML5 is frameless, facilitating search engine optimization. And, you can customize the output to reflect your corporate identity. In this session, we’ll explore creating responsive HTML5 output, improving search engine optimization, and customizing the output.
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group June 2021Kanwal Khipple
Speaker 1: Kanwal Khipple
Kanwal Khipple, Founder and CEO of 2toLead, passion lies in continuing to push for user experience innovation when redesigning digital workplace for many of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. Kanwal has been recognized as an Microsoft 365 MVP by Microsoft (2009 to 2020).
Session 1: Latest Microsoft 365 Announcements
Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
6:00pm – Session 1
6:45pm – Closing
Top 10 Digital Workplace Patterns #spscalgaryKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.
For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Top 10 Digital Workplace Patterns #spfestdenverKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.
For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together.
In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
A successful collaboration strategy includes technology, process alignment, and the user experiences. However, organizations tend to focus the most on technology, and the least on people -- when the opposite should be true. As this presentation explains, culture is the key to any successful collaboration strategy.
Designing usable web applications (part 1) experience dynamics web seminarExperience Dynamics
Designing Web Applications using usability best practices...Web application projects need a solid understanding of what success criteria constitutes a usable web application. Teams deploying web applications should be utilizing emerging best practices in Interaction Design, such as how to design for "progressive disclosure" using dynamic interface techniques. This seminar will outline best practices, things to avoid in designing usable web applications as well as a review of recent client case studies.
Top 10 Digital Workplace Patterns #SPSChiBurbsKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.
For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Evan Williams: Modularization, Web Applications, and Why (User Experience) De...Steve Williams
BayCHI June 14, 2005, program: Evan believes: "The relative importance of user experience in making a product successful increases over time." He enumerated certain user experience (UE) questions in choosing a product:
- How well does it match my needs?
- How easy and obvious is it?
- How does it make me feel?
* How does it look?
- What does it say about me?
And there are questions of incremental importance, not to be confused with value, such as:
- What should it do?
- How does it work?
- How do we build it?
- How do we sell it?
- Is it reliable?
Looking at these two sets of questions, Evan extends his premise: "The relative importance of user experience and style factors increases as technology and engineering improve."
Integrating Bots into your Digital Workplace Strategy #spfestdenverKanwal Khipple
Is your organizations looking to become smarter? Attend this session to better understand the benefit of bots and how integrating them into your organization can help common tasks automated. It's the first step toward better integration between business applications together.
At the end of this session, we'll ask demo bots and sample solutions currently available in the Office 365 space.
Transitioning from Technical Communicator to User Experience ProfessionalTheresa Putkey
Gives motivations and reasons to move from technical communication to user experience, plus job description comparisons, how to reposition yourself, and resources for more information.
Intranets With Office 365: What You Need To Know #INT103 #365EduCon 20211214Kanwal Khipple
There is a growing trend of organisations moving to “the cloud” to meet their intranet needs. While many organisations are running their Intranets “on premise”, many are considering entirely cloud-based solutions or running them on platforms like Office 365. What's more organizations are challenging the Intranet to be more of an interactive and engaging digital hub for their digital workplace than just a communication centric portal.
The top two questions for many companies is “should our intranet be built with Office 365?” and "how should we best leverage it with Office 365?"
In this session we will explore:
• The benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet...
• Where the issues and challenges will lie...
• When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today.
Within the Office 365 ecosystem, what is the best method to have your message heard by the right audience? This presentation walks through the different options in the Microsoft arena, including SharePoint News and Communication Sites, Yammer, Teams, and more.
DWCNZ - Creating a Great User Experience in SharePointMarc D Anderson
Building solutions in SharePoint isn’t simply about getting the functionality right based on the business requirements. Developers must think about the entire user experience. In this interactive class, we’ll discuss questions like: How should the user feel when they use this piece of functionality? Will they see it as saving them work or creating new work? How will it compare to what they see on the consumer Web? We’ll look at good and bad examples from SharePoint itself, as well as specific customisations.
Business aspects of social software and collaboration Ed Brill
Web 2.0, social software, blogs, wikis, instant messaging. New tools and new ways of approaching communication and coordination among customers, suppliers, and partners. Software to help companies share information has been around for more than 15 years. How do the new tools intersect with existing ones? How can you best leverage new technologies for faster time-to-market and increased customer satisfaction? What is the role of security in an increasingly open supply-chain communication system? We'll examine these questions and talk about current and future technologies and trends.
Content-Centric Design The Future of Online User AssistanceEdward Galore
Content accessed online is often stripped of its hierarchical relationship to related content. Help articles must be encapsulated with metadata so that they can be understood when discovered or accessed out their original content repository. By embedding context within the the content object, the content will remain comprehensible even when accessed without the original information structure.
Put Your Content on Mobile Devices Using Responsive HTML5 (STC New england IN...Deborah Sauer
The reality: Information is available instantly… on our phone, tablet, and computer. Have a question? Look it up using your phone. Expectations have been set. Our users want to be able to access our information with equal ease. How do we meet this need? Delivering information in responsive HTML5 format allows you to make your content available to your users on multiple platforms. Using the responsive HTML5 output functionality built into FrameMaker, you can quickly and easily create output that users can access from a phone, tablet, or computer. Output is easily updateable so you can deliver the latest information without having to wait until the next software release. Responsive HTML5 is frameless, facilitating search engine optimization. And, you can customize the output to reflect your corporate identity. In this session, we’ll explore creating responsive HTML5 output, improving search engine optimization, and customizing the output.
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group June 2021Kanwal Khipple
Speaker 1: Kanwal Khipple
Kanwal Khipple, Founder and CEO of 2toLead, passion lies in continuing to push for user experience innovation when redesigning digital workplace for many of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. Kanwal has been recognized as an Microsoft 365 MVP by Microsoft (2009 to 2020).
Session 1: Latest Microsoft 365 Announcements
Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
6:00pm – Session 1
6:45pm – Closing
Top 10 Digital Workplace Patterns #spscalgaryKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.
For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Top 10 Digital Workplace Patterns #spfestdenverKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.
For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together.
In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
A successful collaboration strategy includes technology, process alignment, and the user experiences. However, organizations tend to focus the most on technology, and the least on people -- when the opposite should be true. As this presentation explains, culture is the key to any successful collaboration strategy.
Designing usable web applications (part 1) experience dynamics web seminarExperience Dynamics
Designing Web Applications using usability best practices...Web application projects need a solid understanding of what success criteria constitutes a usable web application. Teams deploying web applications should be utilizing emerging best practices in Interaction Design, such as how to design for "progressive disclosure" using dynamic interface techniques. This seminar will outline best practices, things to avoid in designing usable web applications as well as a review of recent client case studies.
Top 10 Digital Workplace Patterns #SPSChiBurbsKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.
For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Evan Williams: Modularization, Web Applications, and Why (User Experience) De...Steve Williams
BayCHI June 14, 2005, program: Evan believes: "The relative importance of user experience in making a product successful increases over time." He enumerated certain user experience (UE) questions in choosing a product:
- How well does it match my needs?
- How easy and obvious is it?
- How does it make me feel?
* How does it look?
- What does it say about me?
And there are questions of incremental importance, not to be confused with value, such as:
- What should it do?
- How does it work?
- How do we build it?
- How do we sell it?
- Is it reliable?
Looking at these two sets of questions, Evan extends his premise: "The relative importance of user experience and style factors increases as technology and engineering improve."
Integrating Bots into your Digital Workplace Strategy #spfestdenverKanwal Khipple
Is your organizations looking to become smarter? Attend this session to better understand the benefit of bots and how integrating them into your organization can help common tasks automated. It's the first step toward better integration between business applications together.
At the end of this session, we'll ask demo bots and sample solutions currently available in the Office 365 space.
Transitioning from Technical Communicator to User Experience ProfessionalTheresa Putkey
Gives motivations and reasons to move from technical communication to user experience, plus job description comparisons, how to reposition yourself, and resources for more information.
Intranets With Office 365: What You Need To Know #INT103 #365EduCon 20211214Kanwal Khipple
There is a growing trend of organisations moving to “the cloud” to meet their intranet needs. While many organisations are running their Intranets “on premise”, many are considering entirely cloud-based solutions or running them on platforms like Office 365. What's more organizations are challenging the Intranet to be more of an interactive and engaging digital hub for their digital workplace than just a communication centric portal.
The top two questions for many companies is “should our intranet be built with Office 365?” and "how should we best leverage it with Office 365?"
In this session we will explore:
• The benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet...
• Where the issues and challenges will lie...
• When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today.
Within the Office 365 ecosystem, what is the best method to have your message heard by the right audience? This presentation walks through the different options in the Microsoft arena, including SharePoint News and Communication Sites, Yammer, Teams, and more.
DWCNZ - Creating a Great User Experience in SharePointMarc D Anderson
Building solutions in SharePoint isn’t simply about getting the functionality right based on the business requirements. Developers must think about the entire user experience. In this interactive class, we’ll discuss questions like: How should the user feel when they use this piece of functionality? Will they see it as saving them work or creating new work? How will it compare to what they see on the consumer Web? We’ll look at good and bad examples from SharePoint itself, as well as specific customisations.
This presentation describes a user-centered website design process that reduces risk and aligns your business goals with the goals of your audience. The result is a professional business website that attracts and converts valuable prospects.
How to - analysis and design of web publishing solutions with SharePointKnowledge Cue
Web content management is a significant solution area within SharePoint 2010 for both Internet and Intranet sites and it needs specific skills and approaches to make these solutions successful. Rather than how to build and configure, this session is about the design questions to ask, common solution approaches, suggestions on documentation, and some thoughts on designing for user adoption.
Is SharePoint working for you, or are you working for SharePoint..?
Why do many end users cringe when they hear the word 'SharePoint'? It's not because SharePoint is a bad platform (quite the contrary actually), it's because of their past experiences with SharePoint.
This webinar explored how you can make your users fall in Love with SharePoint and drive end user adoption in your organization!
Intranet designs guaranteed to engage and inspireInteract
How to create a beautiful intranet design your users will love in five simple steps: brought to life by outstanding intranet design examples from companies including Sony, Travelex, the NHS, Mattress Firm, Piedmont, the NSPCC, and many more.
An effective intranet design is one that is perceived as being of value by both employees and stakeholders. There is a significant amount of planning involved when designing an intranet experience no matter if it is a new build, redesign or new feature. It typically requires cross-department collaboration, management of a multidisciplinary team and implementation, marketing/communication and training plan.
Creating great websites and applications is hard work. There are so many aspects to juggle; so much complexity to control. You have to understand the needs of your users, get buy-in from stakeholders, organize lots of content and create an intuitive interface. This is no small order.
Fortunately, nForm has created a simple resource to pass on a little of what we’ve learned about planning for great design. Our User Experience Cards feature tried-and-true methods for designing better interactive products of all kinds--from online stores to corporate intranets to mobile apps.
Learn about why these methods are needed, how they can help you achieve success, and how you can use the User Experience Cards to plan your own projects.
Designing Better Applications, Website and IntranetsDennis Breen
Creating great websites and applications is hard work. There are so many aspects to juggle; so much complexity to control. You have to understand the needs of your users, get buy-in from stakeholders, organize lots of content and create an intuitive interface. This is no small order.
Fortunately, nForm has created a simple resource to pass on a little of what we’ve learned about planning for great design. Our User Experience Cards feature tried-and-true methods for designing better interactive products of all kinds--from online stores to corporate intranets to mobile apps.
Learn about why these methods are needed, how they can help you achieve success, and how you can use the User Experience Cards to plan your own projects.
Performance Optimisation For Web & Mobileformfunction
Short overview on performance optimisation for web and mobile. Focus on front-end optimisation which is ±90% of most performance related consideration. Put together for conference in July 2009. Apologies to anyone referenced but not credited. Will happily do so on request!
This month’s agenda hosted by Michael Forney, Principal Design Manager for Microsoft Teams, discussed design priniciples and best practices to build on Microsoft Teams. Millions of people use Office 365 every day. Building for our platform puts your app at the center of all the action.
For more information, please visit:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/
What the UX? – Confessions of a DesignerThomas Gläser
UX - two magic letters which seem to attract a lot of hopes and desires. People hiring UX Researcher, UX Prototyper, UX Designer, UX Manager and UX Developer. People buy books about Agile UX and Lean UX. UX is everywhere, but what‘s really behind that thingy? This talk is for those who want to know more about the practical side of User Experience Design and also those who already know about it but have problems integrating it in to their everyday work. This talk will cut the hocus pocus and replace it with down to earth examples. So what? What the UX?
Session at Mobile Tech Conference 2015 in Munich:
https://mobiletechcon.de/2015se/sessions/what-ux-confessions-designer
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Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
To Graph or Not to Graph Knowledge Graph Architectures and LLMs
Creating a Great User Experience in SharePoint
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3. Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC,
located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA.
Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the
enterprise using the SharePoint application platform.
Over 30 years of experience in technology professional
services and software development. Over a wide-ranging
career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc
has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can
solve difficult technology problems for organizations across
a wide variety of industries and organization sizes.
Author of SPServices
Awarded Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server 2011-2016
4. Use SharePoint as an out-of-box application whenever
possible - We designed the new SharePoint UI to be
clean, simple and fast and work great out-of-box. We
encourage you not to modify it which could add
complexity, performance and upgradeability and to focus
your energy on working with users and groups to
understand how to use SharePoint to improve
productivity and collaboration and identifying and
promoting best practices in your organization.
SharePoint
Microsoft Doesn't Advise You Customize SharePoint 2013
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/microsoft-doesnt-advise-you-customize-sharepoint-2013-016608.php
5. User experience (UX or UE) involves a person's
emotions about using a particular product, system or
service. User experience highlights the experiential,
affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human-
computer interaction and product ownership.
How does the user feel when they are
finished with using SharePoint?
“User experience” from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience
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7. The Form v Function Ratio by Dan Antion http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/expert/The-Form-v-Function-Ratio
8. The consumer Web is both a source of
inspiration and an anathema for
enterprise developers
Our users expect no less than what
they see on Facebook, Dropbox,
Google, etc.
It’s an expectations problem
Image from The Conversation Prism http://www.theconversationprism.com/
9. A sound Information
Architecture provides:
Consistency
Simpler maintenance
One version of the truth
Use wisely:
Content Types
Managed metadata
List-based Site Columns
Image from “Explain IA Poster” http://userallusion.com/blog/2010/10/explain-ia-poster/
10. Don’t think about what SharePoint does or
how it does it. Think about what your users
want.
Too many developers eschew SharePoint as a
collaboration tool. Use what you build.
If it’s too slow or cumbersome to you, guess
what? It’s worse for your users.
11. Sit with your users
Listen to what they are asking for
Repeat what they want
Iterate, iterate, iterate
Lather, rinse, repeat – It’s never “done”
Agile with a small “a” – roll with the punches
12. Don’t expect your users to understand all
functionality
Training can’t cover everything –demonstrate
patterns
Be an internal consultant
“How can I help you to solve your
requirements?”
13. Questions to ask:
Can a relatively inexperienced technophobe
make sense of this?
Do we feel like people will need training?
Why?
How often will they use it?
Is it visually appealing?
Is it “accessible”?
14. Create a frictionless experience
Prefill everything you can based
on context
Add some coolness
Remember the power of good IA
15. Your end users don’t care about your budget
Figure out how to help them
Look for quick wins – they can help fund the
big changes
Decide if the workloads SharePoint supports
are important enough
Find executive support
16. •Two Seconds
Boston Globe, February 02, 2013: Instant gratification is making us perpetually impatient ow.ly/i8Pth
Ramesh Sitaraman, a computer
science professor at UMass
Amherst, examined the viewing
habits of 6.7 million Internet users
in a study released in 2012. How
long were subjects willing to be
patient?
Do you think that’s gotten any longer?
17. Views should show the amount of
information required to make decisions,
no more
Carefully balance server side and client
side code
Large images can kill the UX
18. Whether you aim at mobile or
now, you must have a mobile
strategy
Understand your population
Images courtesy: Method IT, TechNet
19. Know your user base
Browsers
Brands
Versions
Screens
Size
Resolution
Shape
Bandwidth
Available RAM
Image from NetMarketShare – timeframe = Q3 2015
http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=Q
“It works on my machine”
doesn’t cut it.
20. If users have to scroll every time they land
on a page, you’ve put things in the wrong
place
Eyes scan from upper left to lower right,
much as a TV “paints” the screen
Image 2: F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content http://www.nngroup.com/articles/f-shaped-pattern-reading-web-content/
21. Decide on your design aesthetic
Few dense pages vs. many sparse pages
Graphics vs. text
Color vs. monochrome
Pet Peeve: Executive images or senseless
banners
22. Please, please, please NEVER:
“Contact your administrator”
Correlation IDs – Good idea, horrible
execution, especially for SharePoint
Online
Tell the user:
What happened?
What did I do to make it happen?
How can I fix it?
23. Remove the developer from the equation
List-Based Settings vs. Property bags
Give users control – it’s their system
Focus on important development work
24. Search is about finding, not searching
Search is not just a search box
Requires regular care and feeding
Use search to drive effects
25. Consistency to a fault - Don’t be constrained by
what SharePoint gives you
Yet, you’ve bought a box, don’t stray too far out
of it
Name it – it’s not SharePoint
Visual cues – not just text
It always comes back to “It Depends”
26.
27. The Form v Function Ratio by Dan Antion http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/expert/The-Form-v-Function-Ratio