SPTechCon Austin 2015 - Creating a Great User Experience in SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint faces a challenging future: Forrester | PCWorld

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027391/microsoft-sharepoint-faces-a-challenging-future-forrester.html

SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, Cloud

http://www.slideshare.net/johnrrymer/share-point-survey-2012-slideshare

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

How does the user feel when they are

finished with using SharePoint?

“User experience” from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience

Image from The Conversation Prism http://www.theconversationprism.com/

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

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

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?

Image from NetMarketShare – timeframe = Q1 2014

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=Q

“It works on my machine”

doesn’t cut it.

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

It always comes back to “It Depends”

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

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