The document discusses user experience with SharePoint, citing various sources, including expert opinions and studies on internet usage patterns. It emphasizes the importance of not customizing SharePoint 2013 as per Microsoft's advice and highlights the need to balance functionality and user expectations. Additionally, the document reflects on the implications of instant gratification on users' patience and interactions with technology.

3. How does the user feel when they are
finished with using SharePoint?
“User experience” from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience

4. 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

6. The Form v Function Ratio by Dan Antion http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/expert/The-Form-v-Function-Ratio

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Image from The Conversation Prism http://www.theconversationprism.com/
Also see: http://www.sptechcon.com/news/the-consumerization-of-the-sharepoint-ui

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Image from “Explain IA Poster” http://userallusion.com/blog/2010/10/explain-ia-poster/

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15. 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?

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Images courtesy: Method IT, TechNet

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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.

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Image 2: F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content http://www.nngroup.com/articles/f-shaped-pattern-reading-web-content/

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It always comes back to “It Depends”

26. The Form v Function Ratio by Dan Antion http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/expert/The-Form-v-Function-Ratio

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