by Thomas Otter | March 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
My regular reader(s) will probably know that I’m a fan of the Guardian newspaper and its on-line efforts. It does a fine job with data, both in terms of sourcing it and visualizing it. Have a look at the website and data blog here. I’ve also ranted about the need for more numeracy in HR [...]
Category: Applications HCM software design usability visualization Tags: analytics, google, HR
by Thomas Otter | September 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
I have seen several keynotes from software executives lately. I recollect that all of them had iPads in them. Seasoned software executives have been getting positively giddy about the iPad. It has given Steve Jobs a sales force that he didn’t know he had. It seems without really planning for it, the iPad has become [...]
Category: UI software design software industry usability visualization Tags: Apple, Design, Enterprise Software., ERP, UI
by Thomas Otter | July 2, 2009 | Comments Off
I’m convinced that too many user interfaces are trapped by tyrannies of table and text. I while ago about blogged about many enterprise software UIs being like Donuts. Via Steve Clayton this arrived in my feedreader this morning. It is goodness. Someone give this fellow some HR system UIs to work on.
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Category: UI usability visualization Tags: CV., UI, visualization
by Thomas Otter | June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
Readers of this blog and my Gartner research will know that I am a big fan of analytics. Not the really the tools, but the skills to take numbers and turn them into something useful. I’m not a statistician, but I know several. I’m even friends with a couple (meaning, in this instance, more than [...]
Category: measurement software industry visualization Tags: analytics, data, Stats
by Thomas Otter | December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
A few weeks ago I posted about GUIs and steering wheels, and before that on the designer of the Nissan GT-R’s relentless focus on detail. Another thing struck me about the GT-R – the dashboard design. At the Tokyo Auto Show, Nissan honcho Carlos Ghosn unveiled the GT-R. The car, which hits the US next [...]
Category: UI software industry usability visualization Tags: GUI Design Usability
by Thomas Otter | December 6, 2008 | Comments Off
(photo from English Cut, one day, I hope to have a suit made there) There is a lot of excellent cost optimization research going on here at Gartner, and as you would expect it was a key theme at the recent symposium. My small contribution to the research collection is a note called Workforce [...]
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Category: cost optimization software industry visualization Tags: cost optimization, human concepts, Taleo
by Thomas Otter | November 13, 2008 | Comments Off
(photo via flickrstream of addedentry) So much of our enterprise systems reporting is still locked into the rows and columns model of reporting. Yes, some vendors have oil gauge type dashboards and yapc (yet another pie chart) but I’ve only seen one or two vendors who really think hard about how to change the way [...]
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Category: HCM Social Software visualization Tags: visualization reporting
