User Experience
The Intersection of User Experience and Accessibility
Because EK strives to develop the best web products for our clients, we have a lot of conversations about how to create the best experience for the users of those products and systems. Again and again we come back to … Continue reading »
Personas to Products: Writing Persona-Driven Epics and User Stories
Personas encompass the needs, motives, values, expectations, and goals of a user and help us develop user-centered products and solutions. This is particularly important when integrating knowledge management throughout our business; an approach where we are constantly involving business users … Continue reading »
Validation Techniques to Enhance Usability
In this recent presentation from Taxonomy Bootcamp 2017, part of KMWorld, EK consultants Ben White and Tatiana Cakici discuss various validation techniques to ensure usability of taxonomy designs.
Collaboration for Improved User Experience
A few months ago, my colleague wrote an excellent blog about how to build user-centric products. She brought up a critical point: user experience matters because users matter. Simple, but so true. By collaborating with your users from the start … Continue reading »
Search UX Best Practices Part 2: Search Results
Search results pages are lists of content which are relevant to the keyword search entered by your users. The concept is deceptively simple, but the design of your search results page plays a vital role in the overall experience users … Continue reading »
Search UX Best Practices Part 1: User Input
Search impacts everything from the way we find a website (Google), to how we find content on a site. But search also puts a heavier burden on the user than most website interactions. Users must locate your search form, enter … Continue reading »
How to Build a User-Centric Product: A Quick Guide to UX Design
User experience matters because users matter. A product could be built from the latest and greatest technology and best practices, but what good is it if no one is actually using it? As simple as this concept sounds, time and … Continue reading »
Website Design Best Practices
Over the last six months, Enterprise Knowledge (EK) has been in the midst of taking the best of what we know and applying it to our own website. Though we’ve helped an array of Federal Agencies, Fortune 500 Companies, and … Continue reading »
Search Design Best Practices
Search is one of the most important capabilities of every Knowledge Management project on which we work. Every company of any size has to find a way to make search work. It can be a website search for customers, a … Continue reading »
Taxonomy Consulting and the Importance of UX Design
In my nearly twenty years of taxonomy consulting, I’ve consistently preached the gospel of user experience design. I coined the term “Business Taxonomy” in order to reflect the basic principle that taxonomies for today’s information users need to reflect the … Continue reading »