Design: Enterprise UX Design

UX design plays a crucial role in developing optimal security tools—a notion that the cybersecurity industry often overlooks. If cyber product teams fail to treat cybersecurity and UX design as merged priorities, the user experience almost always suffers. Management apps such as Notion and Monday provide great examples of the success that comes at least in part because of great UX design.

To deliver a well-designed, user-friendly experience, cybersecurity and UX design must go hand in hand. Unfortunately, developers of cyber products often fail to see the need to prioritize design. Plus, many UX designers lack a background in cybersecurity. Everything comes down to process and resourcing, and product development typically leaves design out of the early planning stages. Read More

Poor user adoption causes 70% of digital-transformation initiatives to fail. Despite their making heavy investments in enterprise software, many organizations struggle with user adoption because employees find their systems too complex or hard to learn and use.

Enterprise software must cater to diverse user needs while providing powerful functionality. Without a well-designed user experience, businesses risk low engagement, reduced productivity, and costly implementation failures. In this article, I’ll explore why UX design is the driving force behind successful enterprise-software adoption, covering some essential design principles, implementation strategies, and the measurable impacts of easy-to-use software on employees’ performance and business efficiency. Read More

Designing for usability and maximizing value delivery are UX design best practices. Building a useful, data-heavy user experience demands even more. Software engineers have achieved a remarkable feat in recent years: leveraging Big Data and data analytics to predict and prescribe users’ behavior. With the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning tools, we can gather huge amounts of data from various sources, enrich and analyze that data, then share the results visually on dashboards and in reports.

But visualizing data isn’t helpful if that data doesn’t make sense. So UX designers have traditionally used bar graphs, line graphs, and pie charts to present data to users visually. Nevertheless, keeping user interfaces simple, focusing on clarity over style, and emphasizing what the user would consider important insights are timeless UX design best practices that can make data-heavy user experiences successful. In this article, I’ll highlight some UX design trends that are transforming data-heavy user interfaces into more insightful and less overwhelming user experiences. Read More