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Visma UX Marathon 2016 and the power of collaboration.

December 9, 2016 in Design

As the weather gets colder and more hostile, Visma UX strives to stay warm and welcoming. One of the initiatives to do this and to cultivate User Experience within the whole organization is the Visma UX Marathon, an annual event for Visma UX practitioners.

Visma Usability Days 2016

November 15, 2016 in Design

We recently finished our third and latest edition of our yearly Visma Usability Days, an event for all the employees of Visma’s Product Unit across all our teams and locations. During the days we wanted to get all the different development teams working on the usability of their products, learning about their users and generally having fun. By focusing entirely ...

Keeping up motivation and inspiration

November 9, 2016 in Design

As a UX designer I am also interested in good experiences in general, and an interest that is growing stronger is how to create a nice experience at work by trying to make people feel that their work is valuable and that it actually makes a difference, but also that it’s just fun to go to work. Some of the things ...

Using the Visma UX-pyramid in everyday UX work

November 2, 2016 in Design

A few months ago, a project was started with the purpose to redesign the look and feel of the payroll application in the MyVisma portal. MyVisma is a cloud-based customer portal, that enables the users to have access and manage their payslips, timesheets, invoices and financial information. One of the foremost features to redesign was the schedule management. This feature ...

Cognitive Science Students Finally Back in Visma Offices!

October 25, 2016 in Design

Visma UX is a partner in the student mentorship program at Linköping University. As the program continues into its second year for our team of students, they have sent us a short update.

Highlights from the Visma UX-day 2016

May 13, 2016 in Design

If you were one of our participants on the Visma UX Day 2016, thank you for coming! And if you missed the event this year, here's a short recap of the highlights.

Welcome the Visma UX-day 2016!

March 17, 2016 in Design

The Visma UX-day 2016 is open for registration! Take the opportunity to mingle with other UX professionals, and learn more about user research and user centered design.

Bringing Your Users Closer – 5 Things You Could Do

February 15, 2016 in Design

I work as a user experience (UX) designer at Visma Commerce, striving to make TendSign – our web-based tool for public procurement – easier and more enjoyable to use. This year will mark my 10th anniversary as a UX designer, and one of the things I’ve come to believe in the most is that my work is very much about ...

A match made in UX heaven

January 29, 2016 in Design

Five students in cognitive science at Linköping University have been matched with Visma Commerce in a mentorship program. We look forward to knowledge sharing and new insights in the coming two years.

Summing up the Visma UX Marathon 2015

December 4, 2015 in Design

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the preparations for the Visma UX Marathon 2015. And now, as we are catching our breaths and summing up, we are ready to share the highlights of this year’s UX bonanza at Visma. Characteristics of the Visma UX Marathon This year, all participants in the UX Marathon focused their efforts on improving the ...

Visma UX is growing – on all accounts

May 13, 2015 in Design

For a company like Visma, that is into accounting, it is very pleasing to report that Visma UX for some time now has been in a state of rapid and extensive growth. The expansion consists of visible and concrete numbers as well as a less tangible, but equally important, growth of knowledge and skills. We in the UX team at ...

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The importance of involving users

April 9, 2014 in Design

Anna Kirah stresses the importance of involving the people using the products in the design and development phase on the Visma Developer Days.

How we created a UX-environment at Visma

June 17, 2013 in Design

At Visma we have a growing environment working with optimizing the user experience of our offerings. When I started the first embryo of this group it was in the beginning of 2006 and we were 3 people.

Norman Nielsen Usability week in London – Research beyond user testing

October 18, 2012 in Design

Christian Rohrer that holds an impressive CV with experience from leading user experience research teams at Yahoo and eBay, and a current position at Mcfee, talked during the Norman Nielsen Usability week about methods that complement usability studies. Field studies During a full-day training course, a lot of emphasis was put on field studies. Christian stressed, “Understanding the real product ...

User tests not always a success story

September 25, 2012 in Design

We have done user testing of Visma’s web site and we did not reach any overwhelming results. We actually had to scrap the quantitative data. Was this user test a total waste of money and time? No, but it was a costly lesson. Since we believe that sharing is caring, here is our story. The test setup A while ago, ...

What is good user experience at Visma?

July 31, 2012 in Design

“A modern paradox is that it’s simpler to create complex interfaces because it’s so complex to simplify them” – Pär Almqvist (link) Often good user experience ends with this sentence, simply because good user experience is perceived to be too complex to achieve. But today, virtually all products and services has ease of use, intuitive or “good user experience” as ...

How to Create a User-Friendly Specification

June 20, 2012 in Design

Three times a year Visma´s usability engineers meet at internal HCI conferences. A social activity game was held at the latest conference illustrates the software development process in a simple way, with focus on the often-debated topic “UX and specifications”. The Game The participants were divided in small groups. Each group was given pieces of Lego, varying in size and ...

The usability behind Vismas new web

March 26, 2012 in Design

Two weeks ago we launched a new Visma web experience. I would say that it is a quite dramatic improvement. How dramatic you might ask? Well, read on and I will briefly go through the main usability and design highlights. And, yes – this is a first step and there are many improvements to come. But let’s focus on this ...