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It’s time to reconsider, Google

It’s time to reconsider, Google

By Paul Miller on March 19, 2015

Almost a year ago, Google made an apparently small change to Google Calendar. They started automatically adding Google Hangout video links to every new appointment. And it was bad. I’m sure you’ve all seen appointments like this pop up in your calendar. How do you join the meeting? Do you dial the phone number, or […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Design, google, google calendar, intuitive, saas, software as a service, tftd, uberconference, unintuitive, usability, user experience, user interface, ux

How To Make 2015 Your Year for Enterprise Mobile Success

How To Make 2015 Your Year for Enterprise Mobile Success

By Robert Duffner on January 22, 2015

We’ve been involved with thousands of enterprises that have moved to mobile, and we’ve learned quite a bit along the way about those enterprises that are likely to fail at mobile, and those that help enterprises shift from mobile laggard to mobile leader. I hope to share some of those insights we’ve learned with you […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged cloud, Minimum viable product, mobile app, user experience

Bank Simple–Not Traditional Banking But Definitely Not Banking 2.0

Bank Simple–Not Traditional Banking But Definitely Not Banking 2.0

By Ben Kepes on September 30, 2011

I’ve written in the past about Banking 2.0 – a concept that sees the flexibility and openness of web 2.0 bought that most staid of industries, banking. As I see it, like the web we now know, banking 2.0 would involve banks creating APIs that would allow (and yes, after correct authentication of course, third […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged bank, BankSimple, Joshua Reich, online banking, user experience, User experience design, user interface | 2 Responses

Windows Live Microsoft Word Document UX vs. Google Docs UX

Windows Live Microsoft Word Document UX vs. Google Docs UX

By Adron Hall on July 18, 2011

Before even getting to the point of writing a document, there are very distinct user experiences (UX). I have my own preferences, but I am very curious what others think. When somebody decides to create a new Microsoft Word Document in the Windows Live Site on their Skydrive they’re presented with this interface. Windows Live […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged google, google docs, microsoft, Microsoft Office, microsoft word, reviews, saas, usability, user experience, ux, word processor | 6 Responses

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Lean Startup Customer Development And IxD Personas

By Chirag Mehta on September 10, 2010

On Quora Steve Blank asked “Is it possible to use Lean Startup customer development findings to inform IxD personas?” This post is my response to Steve on Quora: Absolutely yes. Pivoting is not just about finding the right business model that works for a start-up but it is also about nailing down the persona that […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged lean, persona, user experience

Google Buzz Is New Black - Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not

Google Buzz Is New Black – Solving A Problem That Google Wave Could Not

By Chirag Mehta on February 9, 2010

Today Google announced Google Buzz. Watch the video: The chart below shows the spectacular adoption failure of Google Wave as a standalone product. This was predicted by a lot of people including myself. As Anil Dash puts it Google Wave does not help solve a “weekend-sized problem”. Besides the obvious complex technical challenges there are three distinct […]

Posted in Mobile, Product reviews | Tagged collaboration, facebook, foursquare, gmail, google, google wave, gowalla, Latitude, location-awareness, mobile, social media, Strategy, twitter, user experience

5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

By Mark Suster on November 2, 2009

Turn Your Organization Inside Out This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999.  As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers.  In the first 4 years of running BuildOnline we […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged customer focus, Startup Advice, user experience

How Long Before You Dumped Your Netbook Into Garbage?

How Long Before You Dumped Your Netbook Into Garbage?

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 14, 2009

Michael Dell, founder of Dell,told an audience at Churchill Club that the infatuation with Netbooks only lasts for 36 hours  “If you take a user who’s used to a 14- or 15-inch notebook and you say ‘Here’s a 10-inch netbook,’ they’re gonna say ‘Hey, this is so fantastic. It’s so cute. It’s so light. I […]

Posted in General | Tagged dell, netbooks, user experience | 1 Response

Review – Fusion Accounting

Review – Fusion Accounting

By Ben Kepes on May 29, 2009

Accounting 2.0 at CloudAve In an ongoing series of reviews and analysis pieces, CloudAve will be taking a deep look into accounting software for the new world. See the other posts at this tag Introduction & Background Fusion Accounts  is another product borne out of necessity. A bunch of developers needing an accounting solution on […]

Posted in Product reviews, Small business | Tagged accy2, fusion, stiona, user experience | 1 Response

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