This document provides an overview of designing user experience for SharePoint internet sites. It discusses understanding user experience, how it applies to SharePoint, and a case study of how Chippewa Valley Technical College improved their site. It also covers development tools and tips, web analytics and optimization, demos of master pages and branding techniques, and resources for further information. The goal is to make SharePoint sites look and feel less like SharePoint and more like custom-designed websites.
This fall, C/D/H presented to a group of IT professionals and leaders on best practices for optimizing and branding the user experience of SharePoint 2010 public websites and portals.
Attendees learned how SharePoint 2010 solutions can generate measurable business results from improvements in SharePoint information architecture, usability, visual design, and data visualization/integration. Real world projects were used to demonstrate how adhering to best practices drives adoption and provides valuable user feedback for continuous improvement.
Download the slide deck (PDF, 1 MB).
And for more information on this or other SharePoint topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
What Makes SharePoint UX Good?What is UX?
What defines good UX?
Evaluation Criteria for SharePoint UX
Key Tips from the Field
The Future of SharePoint & Office 365 UXUX is the short for User Experience
UX is the experience that the user has while interacting with your X
It’s more about how the user feels when they use your X
Many different parts compose the UX, no “one things” makes it
UX is NOT the interface or design of your X
UI is short for User Interface
It’s what you see in the browser
Help messages, buttons, modals, characters, style, menus, navigation, pages
UI is an incredibly important part of UX
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This fall, C/D/H presented to a group of IT professionals and leaders on best practices for optimizing and branding the user experience of SharePoint 2010 public websites and portals.
Attendees learned how SharePoint 2010 solutions can generate measurable business results from improvements in SharePoint information architecture, usability, visual design, and data visualization/integration. Real world projects were used to demonstrate how adhering to best practices drives adoption and provides valuable user feedback for continuous improvement.
Download the slide deck (PDF, 1 MB).
And for more information on this or other SharePoint topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
What Makes SharePoint UX Good?What is UX?
What defines good UX?
Evaluation Criteria for SharePoint UX
Key Tips from the Field
The Future of SharePoint & Office 365 UXUX is the short for User Experience
UX is the experience that the user has while interacting with your X
It’s more about how the user feels when they use your X
Many different parts compose the UX, no “one things” makes it
UX is NOT the interface or design of your X
UI is short for User Interface
It’s what you see in the browser
Help messages, buttons, modals, characters, style, menus, navigation, pages
UI is an incredibly important part of UX
10 Best SharePoint Features You’ve Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
A walk through of the advances made in the SharePoint 2010 platform from earlier versions, as well as a list of 10 out of the box features that most end users are not using, but should. From a webinar given on 6-5-2012
SharePoint My Sites: Aligning Business Needs, Corporate Culture & SharePoint ...Perficient, Inc.
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The slides John Schmottlach and I presented at the SHARE2012 Conference: a summary of a decade's worth of learning about SharePoint adoption, with John using his company's experience as a case study.
Are you new to SharePoint and don’t know where to start? Perhaps you’re using SharePoint, but only for storing documents and making announcements?
Have you connected to your back-end systems? Is it time to deploy workflow and electronic forms? When’s the right time?
A well-planned SharePoint roadmap defines the business goals, timeline, strategy and vision for your collaboration initiative. It makes sure your project gets funded. It will ensure you’re investing in the right areas with a framework for success.
View the presentation, delivered at the SharePoint TechKNOWLEDGEy 2010 event in Detroit. And for more information on this or other SharePoint topics, visit www.cdh.com or our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
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Bruce Norman Smith has been a SharePoint champion at Environment Canada and the Medical Council of Canada. A Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS, McGill ‘08) provides Bruce with graduate level training in business process analysis, database design, xml metadata development, and IM theory & methods. Bruce’s talent for bridging the gaps between business needs, RM and Archival requirements & technical best practices ensures your entire organization can benefit from a SharePoint implementation. His current focus is on mastering the infrastructure and services that support a rock solid ECM solution.
Bruce's blog site is: http://seek.itgroove.net/
The great variety of features, possibilities and information within SharePoint portals make it hard to provide customers with the right user experience. Slight changes and, for example, the use of Silverlight can give the user’s experience a big boost. In the presentation I (Sandra de Ridder, UX and functional consultant at Sparked) gave on the 7th of May at DIWUG I reviewed the User eXperience of a couple of SharePoint sites and provided tips and tricks on how you can improve this user experience.
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SHARE2012 Conference A Decade of Adoption Best PracticesMike Gilronan
The slides John Schmottlach and I presented at the SHARE2012 Conference: a summary of a decade's worth of learning about SharePoint adoption, with John using his company's experience as a case study.
Are you new to SharePoint and don’t know where to start? Perhaps you’re using SharePoint, but only for storing documents and making announcements?
Have you connected to your back-end systems? Is it time to deploy workflow and electronic forms? When’s the right time?
A well-planned SharePoint roadmap defines the business goals, timeline, strategy and vision for your collaboration initiative. It makes sure your project gets funded. It will ensure you’re investing in the right areas with a framework for success.
View the presentation, delivered at the SharePoint TechKNOWLEDGEy 2010 event in Detroit. And for more information on this or other SharePoint topics, visit www.cdh.com or our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.
Presentation given on June 11th, 2015 as part of the ITUnity Connect Online event, and sponsored by Colligo (www.Colligo.com), providing guidance on how to re-focus your SharePoint efforts around a user-centric approach.
ARMA Vancouver (in partnership with ARMA VI) invited Bruce Miller from RIMtech to give his 2 day “Managing Electronic Records with SharePoint” workshop.
Bruce Smith recaps some of the key messages about managing an EDRMS project, the roles of IT and RM, metrics for measuring progress, and 3rd party tools to add recordkeeping capabilities to SharePoint.
Bruce Norman Smith has been a SharePoint champion at Environment Canada and the Medical Council of Canada. A Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS, McGill ‘08) provides Bruce with graduate level training in business process analysis, database design, xml metadata development, and IM theory & methods. Bruce’s talent for bridging the gaps between business needs, RM and Archival requirements & technical best practices ensures your entire organization can benefit from a SharePoint implementation. His current focus is on mastering the infrastructure and services that support a rock solid ECM solution.
Bruce's blog site is: http://seek.itgroove.net/
The great variety of features, possibilities and information within SharePoint portals make it hard to provide customers with the right user experience. Slight changes and, for example, the use of Silverlight can give the user’s experience a big boost. In the presentation I (Sandra de Ridder, UX and functional consultant at Sparked) gave on the 7th of May at DIWUG I reviewed the User eXperience of a couple of SharePoint sites and provided tips and tricks on how you can improve this user experience.
The Internet and Web 2.0 has changed how we communicate and collaborate with the world outside the firewall. Cutting-edge organizations are using the same tools inside the firewall to communicate, collaborate, and innovate. This session will show how Web 2.0 technologies used inside an organization via their Intranet, can reigniting passion and drawing individuals together regardless of location. Communicate, collaborate, and innovate to close the gap between what people can do at home and office while building a sense of control to create a productive team environment.
Ten Steps to Creating a SharePoint Support Model - Geoff EvelynSPC Adriatics
There is nothing like a smoothly running SharePoint support environment but is that possible? In creating a great support SharePoint environment helps foster great user adoption and great SharePoint champions. This presentation attempts to show a strategic approach where the questions to be answered on how to build a true support model for SharePoint be based on “What has to happen, why and where?”, and attempts to describe a basic support model of ten key steps; from knowing what resources make up your SharePoint environment to keeping in contact with customers.
From a webinar we did on SharePoint discussing the range of light to heavy UX projects taht are possible on the platform. Contact me for the full recording.
Abstract - Designing SharePoint 2010 for Business
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Types of SharePoint edition
SharePoint 2013 Overview
What do you think about new version?
SharePoint 2013 Three-tier farm configuration
Capabilities and Features in SharePoint 2013
Market Overview
SharePoint 2013 training opportunity
Common Questions by Dev/IT Pro
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2. Quick Facts
About Us Approach Partnerships
• 22nd Year • Vendor • Microsoft Gold
• Grand Rapids & Independent • VMware Enterprise
Royal Oak • Non-reseller • Citrix Silver
• 30 Staff • Professional • Cisco Registered
Services Only • Novell Gold
7. Agenda
• Understanding user experience
• User experience in SharePoint
• Case study: Chippewa Valley Technical College
• Development tools and tips
• Web analytics and optimization
• Demo: Master pages & page layouts
• Demo: Methods for branding SharePoint sites
• Resources
13. UX. What is it?
User Experience
n. the overall experience and satisfaction a
user has when using a product or system
14. UX. What is it?
User Experience is
multifaceted!
15. UX. What is it?
User Experience is…
a multi-disciplinary process of design
• Accessibility
• Information Architecture (IAI)
• Information Design (IDA)
• Interaction Design (IxDA)
• Technical Writing (STC)
• Usability Engineering (UPA)
• User Research (HFES)
• Visual Design / Branding
• Web Analytics (WAA)
16. UX. What is it?
• Differentiates a product or service
• Creates business opportunities
• Improves efficiency
17. The Proof is in the Returns
10
9
Design Organizations
8
7
6
S&P 500
5
4
3
2
1
0
Year 1
Year 3
Year 5
Stock performance of 63 “Design Oriented Companies” versus the S&P 500 over 1, 3 and 5 years
Source: Peer Research , Fast Company,
18. A Valuable Investment
• “Every $1 invested in usability returns between
$10 and $100” -- IBM, Cost-Justifying Ease of Use
• Investing 10% of a total project budget yields:
Metric Return
Sales/ Conversion rate 100%
Visitors/ Traffic 150%
User Performance / Productivity 161%
Use of (Key) Features 202%
Jakob Nielson, Return on Investment for Usability
20. What Users Want
1. Users don’t care about how the software is built. They
want performance, convenience and results
2. Unless it allows them to get their work/task done faster,
they don’t want to learn a new/different way of doing
something
3. They want a responsive UI with visual clues as to ‘what
next’. They don’t want to guess what to do (or hunt for it)
4. As far as they’re concerned the experience is the
product
22. Successfully Improving User
Experience
• Use Web Analytics to identify when usability issues occur
(e.g. funnel analysis)
• Find reasons why usability issues occur (e.g. expert review)
• Evaluate different design solutions (e.g. usability testing)
• Validate design solutions (e.g. multivariate testing)
• Use Web Analytics data to optimize navigation (e.g. order
of navigation items)
• Interdisciplinary teams of Information Architects, User
Researchers, Designers, and Web Analysts can fulfill these
requirements best
Source: Nicolas Mohr - SapientNitro
23. Content is King
Facets of content relevant to SharePoint
– Governance & Ownership - Who owns, creates content?
When does content get created or removed? Is it
centralized? Does it need approval?
Format (that content is in)
– Textual documents, articles,, newsletters, audio &
videos, etc.
– Volume
– How big is your website going to be? How many content
contributors do you have?
Dynamism
– What is the rate of growth of content? Should it expire?
25. Design Best Practices
• Master Pages
– 2 or 3
• Home page
• Landing page
• Content Subpage
• Content Types
– 1 – very generic and broad type
• Page Layouts
– Optimal number 5 to 7
• Less than 5 Limited layout options
• More than 7 Difficult to support and train end-users
– Consider maintenance
26. Design Best Practices
• Build your own templates
– Site definitions
– Master pages
– Style sheets
– Content types
– Page layouts
• Leverage SharePoint Community resources
• Randy Drisgill - MVP SharePoint Server
– Starter Master Pages for SharePoint 2010
27. Case Study:
Chippewa Valley Technical College
• Public website
• Rich-media enhancements
• Leverages OOTB functionality
• Leveraged staff’s knowledge
• Rich integration with data systems
• Measureable objectives
– Process Automation
– Centralized course catalog
29. Analytics & Optimization
Performance Goals: Reduce page weight (wait)
Dev/Optimization Analytics SP2010 Techniques
• Yslow • Reinvigorate • Output Caching
• Fiddler • Omniture • CSS Sprites
• Firebug • Consolidate JS & CSS files
• Hammerhead • Google Analytics • Cache JS, CSS and image
• Aptimize • Web Trends files in browser
• Minification of JS and CSS
• Anonymous access for
CSS, JS and image files
• Javascript Suppression
30. Advanced Tips & Tricks
Remove specific content from Search Results
<div class=“footer noindex”/>
<!--- footer content --->
</div>
Security controlled content
<Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl runat="server"
Permissions="ManageWeb">
<!--- content here --->
</Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>
31. Advanced Tips & Tricks
Including a footer in your design?
Add s4-notdlg for HTML elements that you don’t want to show in the
dialog boxes
<div class=“customFooter”>
<div class=“customFooter s4-notdlg”>
32. Easily show a Favicon in
SharePoint 2010
Easily show a Favicon in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2007 approach
<link rel=“shortcut icon” href=“/Style Library/images/favicon.ico”/>
SharePoint 2010 approach
<SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon runat=“server” IconUrl=“/Style Library/images/favicon.ico”/>
34. Javascript Optimization
The problem…
– SP2010 Javascript payload is large (480k)
– Script On Demand framework (SOD)
– Removal / suppression isn’t currently
supported
The solution…
– A custom control
– Improves page load times by 16%-25%
Chris O'Brien - SharePoint MVP (www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com)
36. Aptimize
• Automates many optimizations
– Image sprites
– Combining/minifying JavaScript & CSS
• Filter is installed on WFEs
• Good option where no optimization
expertise?
• Project decision – spend $ on product or
implementation effort?
38. In Conclusion
• Design should be about making business
sense and achieving business objectives
• Users aren’t concerned about the
technical solution
• Users want performance, convenience
and results
• Every Web CMS has its quirks
• SharePoint remains an evolving and
flexible solution
39. Questions about whether design is
necessary or affordable are quite
beside the point. Design is inevitable.
The alternative to good design is bad
design, not no design at all.
Douglas Martin
Book Design: A Practical Introduction
40. Thank You
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