User Experience Group

imason's User Experience team offer tips and insights, and sometimes share their frustrations, about Interaction Design, Usability, Information Architecture and gathering requirements.

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  • Don’t make a mega mess of your new Mega Menu

    Mega Menus are quickly becoming ubiquitous. So I thought I would share some design considerations as people build these into their website designs, but first I want to distinguish between Mega Menus and traditional dropdown menus. The main difference between the two type of menus is that Mega Menus allow...
  • Styling SharePoint 2010 - Refrencing Your Custom CSS

    As I delve deeper into styling a SharePoint 2010 site, I am discovering a few quirks here and there. Normally as each new challenge arises and I find a fix for it I just move on, rarely documenting what I did to fix the problem. This made it a bit of a challenge for me when on the next project, the same...
  • Print Stylesheets affecting the Rich Text Editor

    Every now and then a client will have some very specific requirements when it comes to the print view of their website. For those clients we will create a custom print only stylesheet that is referenced when the page is printed. I will not go into detail here about what you should include in your print...
  • Building a User Experience Team

    A while back I was asked to answer some questions on how to build a User Experience team. I'm always interested how other teams work, so I'm sharing this in hopes that people will share their experiences with what works and what doesn't. This is how we're working now... What is the typical...
  • Graphic Design Guidelines for SharePoint 2007

    Problem: You've been asked to create a graphic design that can be applied to a SharePoint 2007 site - but you've never seen one before. Or, you've seen one but don't have access to the CSS to see how things are set up. Here are some basic guidelines for creating a graphic design that...
  • Online forms - inline labelling

    Any site or app that collects user information of any kind will more than likely require that a form be filled out. This is never the most fun part of the user experience but it is a necessary step in the process. If an online form has any obstacles there is a high probability that the user will either;...
  • SharePoint Font Colour and Font Family CSS Reset

    One of the most frustrating things I’ve found while customizing Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS for short) sites are the hundreds of colour and font family declarations spanning across multiple CSS files. As soon as I think I’ve changed all the link colours to the same...
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