Kathy Miedema, Oracle Applications User Experience All of the user experience improvements in the new Web-based Agile 9.3 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) boil down to two things: This software is more efficient and easier to use than it was before....

Editor’s note: Dr. Sherry Mead is an expert in the user experience of search. This blog is the first of a two-part series on the latest user interface design for search functionality. Sherry Mead, User Experience Architect What Are Facets?...

Kathy Miedema, Oracle Applications User Experience Oracle’s Worklist features are being enhanced for the next generation of business enterprise software. A Worklist describes tasks that require a manager or other employee to intervene and complete, says Carmen D’Arlach, a design...

Anna Wichansky, Senior Director, Applications User Experience and Chair, Oracle Usability Advisory Board On March 30-31, 2009, we celebrated the first anniversary of founding the Oracle Usability Advisory Board by having a strategic meeting in the Oracle Conference Center in...

Kathy Miedema, Oracle Applications User Experience The redesigned Remote Data Capture 4.5.3 application, for Oracle’s customers in the pharmaceutical world, is already making clinical trials easier for investigators around the globe. That’s because key customers, stakeholders in pharmaceutical companies, had...

Laurie Pattison, Senior Director, User Experience, Oracle In my travels and conversations with other UX professionals, it seems that no matter what interesting design or research topic we’re discussing, there’s always a point in the conversation when the subject moves...

Kathy Miedema, Oracle Applications User Experience Oracle’s User Experience team took a page from successful salespeople in creating the recent releases of the Mobile Sales Assistant (MSA) application. Speed, flexibility, and efficiency are important ingredients for making a job on...

Alisa Hamai, Usability Engineer and Co-Chair, Oracle Usability Advisory Board On a snowy night on December 8, 2008, Oracle hosted a lovely Italian dinner for our Usability Advisory Board at the II Fornaio Restaurant in Denver, Colorado. A total of...

George Hackman, Senior Director, Applications User Experience Patterns for User Interface Design Design patterns have been around since the 1960’s as a way of bringing commonly established best practices to architecture. Christopher Alexander wrote a book on architectural patterns that...

John Cartan, User Experience Architect, Applications User Experience After thirty years of pointing and clicking, human computer interaction is entering a new phase. Input methods are becoming more sophisticated and flexible (multi-touch, touchless, tactile, audio). At the same time, output...

Editor’s note: Oracle OpenWorld 2008 took place in San Francisco’s Moscone Center from September 21-25, 2008. Misha Vaughan was responsible for coordinating the Applications User Experience contribution to OpenWorld this year. This is the second part in a two-part series....

Eva Gaumond, Senior Principal Usability Engineer, CRM and Enabling Technologies Introduction Successful sales people know how to get the right product information to the right customer at the right time. Staying up-to-date with their company’s offerings while building and maintaining...

Editor’s note: Oracle OpenWorld 2008 took place in San Francisco’s Moscone Center from September 21-25, 2008. Misha Vaughan was responsible for coordinating the Applications User Experience contribution to OpenWorld this year. This is the first part in a two-part series....

Author: Lynn Rampoldi-Hnilo, Senior Manager - Oracle Applications User Experience Mobile communication and information devices have been evolving with recent improvements in battery life, security, device management, and memory bandwidth. New applications have exploded into the marketplace, enabling individuals...

Author: Anna Wichansky, Senior Director - Oracle Applications User Experience & Chair, Oracle Usability Advisory BoardThe Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting on User Experience will have a new look at OpenWorld 2008 in San Francisco. The Oracle Usability Advisory...

Author: Madhuri Kolhatkar, Director - Oracle Applications User Experience Enterprise 2.0 User Experiences: Innovations in Applications Unlimited Products Enterprise 2.0 User Experiences can be observed in the design innovations driven by customer needs in Oracle’s Applications Unlimited product lines....

Author: Joe Goldberg, Principal Research Scientist - Oracle Applications User Experience Come see state-of-the-art innovation in user experience evaluation. “Eye tracking” is an important new usability research tool that enables us to determine where a user’s visual attention is focused when...

Authors: Misha Vaughan and Karl Mochel, User Experience Architects, Oracle Applications User Experience        (Editor's note: The authors would like your feedback on the following topic. Please respond using the Post a Comment form at the end of the...

Author: Douglas K. van Duyne, Principal, Naviscent LLC  (Editor's note: Douglas van Duyne is a principal at Naviscent LLC, which recently partnered with Oracle in the design of future Applications user interfaces, and is lead author of The Design of Sites (2003). I...

Authors: Jeff Sauro, Principal Usability Engineer - Oracle Applications User Experience and Joe Dumas, Senior Usability Consultant - Oracle Applications User Experience      (Editor's note: Jeff Sauro and Joe Dumas, industry experts in measuring usability, usually publish their findings in...

Author: Douglas K. van Duyne, Principal, Naviscent LLC (Editor's note: Douglas van Duyne is a principal at Naviscent LLC, which recently partnered with Oracle in the design of future Applications user interfaces, and is the lead author of The Design of Sites...

Author: Velynda Prakhantree, Principal Usability Engineer - Oracle Applications User Experience It's Tuesday April 15th, 2008, 12:08 p.m. You're in Denver, Colorado, finishing a tasty panini at a packed upscale deli on the 16th Street mall. With a couple of colleagues, you're remarking how the...

Author: Erika Webb, Manager UX - Oracle Applications User Experience When I was first working in the usability field, the only way I could consider conducting a usability study was to bring a potential user to a lab environment where I...

Author: Douglas K. van Duyne, Principal, Navicent LLC Editor's note: Douglas van Duyne is a principal at Naviscent LLC, which recently partnered with Oracle in the design of future Applications user interfaces, and is the lead author of The Design of Sites...

Author: Anna M. Wichansky Ph.D CPE, usableapps.oracle.com blog editor   In every endeavor, there are issues that persist regardless of our best singular efforts to resolve them. So it goes with usability. In my 13 years as Usability Manager and...

Author: Amit Pande, Senior Manager - Oracle Applications User Experience Editor's note: Amit Pande and Jeremy Ashley Of Oracle Applications UX group recently made presentations at the 2007 Usability Professionals Association UX Annual Conference in Beijing, China.   Amit on the Great Wall...

Author: Dilip Chetan, Senior Usability Engineer - Oracle Applications User Experience  Scrum is an agile software development method characterized by iterative incremental development of product components. The product to be built is broken up into modules. Each module is developed...

Author: Peter Heller, Senior Director - Oracle Applications Marketing We're All Designers Don't you think computers are fun? Don't they make life better? I was a developer once. Although back then, I was called a programmer. I took great pride...

Author: John Cartan, Design Architect - Oracle Applications User Experience Editor's note: The author attended Oracle OpenWorld at San Franciscos Moscone Center the week of November 11, 2007. This is the fourth in a series of four reports from the show...

Author: Sameer Bhiwani, Principal Interaction Designer - Oracle Applications User Experience  If you have ever worked with a team whose members are spread across at least three different time-zones around the globe, you are likely to have encountered some of...

Author: John Cartan, Design Architect - Oracle Applications User Experience  Editor's note: The author attended Oracle OpenWorld at San Franciscos Moscone Center the week of November 11, 2007.  This is the third in a series of four reports from the show floor....

Author: Roy Selig, Architect - Oracle Applications User Experience  In Part 1 of this blog entry, I wrote about HTML Canvas, a browser tag that enables a vector-based drawing surface and that doesn't require a browser plug-in. Apple introduced HTML...

Author: John Cartan, Design Architect - Oracle Applications User Experience  Editor's note: The author attended Oracle OpenWorld at San Francisco's Moscone Center; the week of November 11, 2007. This is the second in a series of four reports from the...

Author: John Cartan, Design Architect - Oracle Applications User Experience  Editor s note: The author attended Oracle OpenWorld at San Francisco's Moscone Center the week of November 11, 2007. This is the second in a series of four reports from...

Author: Roy Selig, Architect - Oracle Applications User Experience Some of us in Apps UX continue to monitor the browser-based vector graphics space for signs of a sea change. HTML Canvas may represent one. If you've pushed pixels long enough,...

Author: Jonathan Helfman Principal Research Scientist - Oracle Applications User Experience A treemap is a data visualization technique for displaying hundreds of times more data than a bar graph or pie chart. "Treemaps" get their name because they display hierarchies...

Joe Goldberg, Principal Research Scientist - Oracle Applications User Experience What do your eyes know that your mind doesn't?  More than you might think. You may not realize it, but when you use a computer, your eyes are constantly moving,...