Tidemark lets you do enterprise analytics such as sales forecasting, operational planning, future scenarios and monitor business data by showing charts and colorful diagrams.
If I had to put my money on what the next big thing on the web is, I’d go with ‘Mobile Shopping’. When we see that more and more users are moving away from the computer and onto tablets and smart phones, shopping will most likely also go mobile real soon.
Designing for work is challenging. It includes big amounts of domain knowledge to learn and some hard design decisions in the end. Because when it comes to work, nothing is ever really simple.
I started using personas in 2005, and they has become one of my favorite methods of all times. But the creation of good personas is time demanding, and clients don’t always have the time and money to do it right.
On most design projects the UX designer will tell the team not to overestimate the users, so they do not make the application too complex. But things are different with work tools or business software because the users are often experts.