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A Journey in Enterprise UX

Stéphanie Walter
October 10, 2023

A Journey in Enterprise UX

“Ugly”, “hard to use”: many enterprise tools used daily have a bad reputation and suffer from poor design. There’s a giant potential for improvement for the courageous designer, ready to embrace complexity.

Stéphanie will detail her UX research process for the redesign of an enterprise tool used daily by 1000+ internal users: the challenges it had to overcome and opportunities uncovered. Discover why she actually enjoyed working in Enterprise UX, what surprised her when she started, and how to grow in such environments. So, let's improve employees' tools!

Stéphanie Walter

October 10, 2023
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  1. Products, Softwares & Services built internally in the company SaaS

    product sold as packages to be then used by employees
  2. We started with quantitative data ๏ What and how much:

    current pages usage. ๏ Analysis (business) of the content of the current pages.
  3. We analysed the content of the current pages ๏ Check

    for duplicated content ๏ Rework the information architecture to make it easier to navigate
  4. We got the “as is”, and the “what”, we need

    the why and how. Time for user research!
  5. BEFORE starting research, find people to help you get familiar

    with the business process, the jargon, and what is currently into place.
  6. Getting access to internal users ๏ I made friends with

    different departments (got closer to their support teams). ๏ I asked for referrals for more users. ๏ People are usually happy to help you improve the tools they work with. ๏ Build a community of users you can involved for continuous research.
  7. User Interviews & Task Analysis ๏ Understand tasks and activities

    ๏ Get pain-points, needs and frustrations If you had a magic wand, what would you change to make this activity/task easier for you? Can you remember you biggest pain or issue when trying to perform this activity? How do you overcome this today? Pain points What actions or decisions do you take in order to accomplish this? Describe an activity or task that requires you to use Scrap« in your dailywork. Activity How? changes Rythm & duration Hew long does it take? erform your activity? ^ Priority If you had a magic wand, what would you change to make this activity/task Can you remember you biggest pain Describe an activity or task that requires you to use Scrap« in your dailywork. What actions or decisions do you take in order to accomplish this? Magic Activity How? How do you overcome this today? A'rfw-J- dL Rythm & duration How long does it take? do you to (hi perform your activity? ^ Priority If you had a magic wand, what would you change to make this activity/task easier for you? Can you remember you biggest pain or issue when trying to perform this activity? How do you overcome this today? Pain points Describe an activity or task that requires you to use Scrap« in your dailywork. Activity changes Rythm & duration Hew long does it take? ^ Priority
  8. Keep trace & document everything. Even if it’s out of

    scope. It might be useful in the future!
  9. People are not used to User Centered process. During research,

    they tend to express solutions. You will have to dig to find the needs.
  10. Fast track ๏ Content, small features where we don’t have

    time / don’t need to do intensive research ๏ Mostly UI design ๏ Use the design system to migrate the content
  11. Fast track ๏ Ask a few users for quick mockup

    feedback ๏ Gather more feedback on the developed feature
  12. Specific research for big topics ๏ Gather the previous research

    on the topic (if it exists) ๏ Schedule follow up research sessions on that topic ๏ Iterated on some design solutions ๏ Usability Testing (Axure prototype / beta version)
  13. Observational testing ๏ Observational feedback session on beta version that

    we opened to some users. ๏ “Please try to do whatever you needed to do with [oldtool], but use [newtool] instead”.
  14. ๏ I tell people I will answer all their questions

    at the end ๏ I make sure I have time at the end of the session for this ๏ It’s okay, on topics that are NOT related to the tasks in the test Usability tests can become training sessions
  15. User diary - understand usage over a period of time

    The trigger: when you were trying to do something with the new tool but couldn’t and had to fallback to the old one
  16. General Information 21,74 M EUR EIB Authorised Amount (up to)

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  17. People work with the data: don’t block copy/paste and help

    them extract & share the content if needed.
  18. Users don’t care about what data goes into what tool

    in your IT ecosystem. 
 But they care about how many clicks!
  19. Item Page in My Tool Cross linking, to avoid the

    “extra” clicks Same Item in XTool Same Item in ZTool
  20. Some people need and expect it! And some hate it.

    Make it optional, but, offer training, in different formats (live sessions, FAQ, etc.)
  21. A user interface is like a joke. If you have

    to explain it, it’s not that good. Like any good joke, you might need some prior knowledge (business) to understand it. Doesn’t make it a bad joke. Or a bad interface. “ ”
  22. Bad user experience is the norm because perceived value of

    design is low. 
 But… it gets better.
  23. Monitoring & Measuring ๏ Usage with Matomo (daily session, events,

    search, etc.) ๏ UMUX-lite Survey (perceived usability and usefulness) ๏ Feedback and Verbatims
  24. ๏ Some people need a little hand holding, it’s fine

    ๏ Prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations with change
  25. Analysis Asking for help (business) to make sens of the

    complexity. Complexity Fear: how am I supposed to design that?? Solution Design Eventually, everything clicks into place User Research Finding & understanding more of the puzzle. By stephaniewalter.design