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Takeaways from Visma UX & Service Design Days 2018

January 11, 2019 in Design

Key takeaways from of the latest Visma UX and Service Design Days in 2018. New resources have brought many new skills and experiences to the community.

My experience being a UX intern at Visma

December 20, 2018 in Design

UX Intern Martin Lindeborg talks about his internship project and why he chose Visma.

Design-driven growth: bridging gaps between business, technology, and people

November 30, 2018 in Design

Innovation demands that you see the world through multiple lenses at the same time. – Dev Patnaik, Jump Associates

SPAN2018 in Helsinki

November 9, 2018 in Design

In October, Christina Freyhult had the chance to visit the Google design conference SPAN, this year located in Helsinki, Finland. A fitting location for a design conference, as Finland is renowned for it’s design heritage (think Alvar Aalto or Marimekko).

Extending expense reporting on mobile

September 14, 2018 in Design

The Visma.net Expense platform recently reached a milestone before the summer vacation, when Visma Employee launched it’s 5.0 version allowing expense claims to be sent from the phone.

Working with personas in EasyCruit

July 5, 2018 in Design

The EasyCruit team is working on some really exciting improvements for their customers. In this blog post we will share some insights into our design process.

Our experience from the UX Mentor program

April 13, 2018 in Design

Since it was first run in 2012, the goal of the UX Mentor program has been to give the participants (often developers, business analysts and service owners) knowledge, tools and competence to work according to the user-centred design process. This blog post is written by Jorid and Armands, two of the participants of this years program.

Visma Employee – building an app for everyone

November 29, 2017 in Design

How do you design an app for everyone? That is the big question for Visma Employee. “Everyone” might be an exaggeration, but only just so: the Employee app is for anyone who’s employed and might be sick, want a vacation or get a payslip, which is basically anyone employed by a company. In our case, the answer has been to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 Usability Week

November 19, 2014 in Business

We know that sometimes it is hard to put usability on the top of the backlog, so the purpose of this week was to raise the awareness for this field within the company.

(c)Tor Gunnar Berland, 2014. All rights reserved.

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.

World Usability Day

November 8, 2012 in Business

Today is the World Usability Day (WUD). This year, WUD is focused on ‘Usability of financial systems’. The idea behind WUD is to have a specific day on which people around the world can promote usability by arranging local events. Since we´re passionate about usability and work with financial systems this year’s topic inspired us to advocate WUD! Life size ...

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 ...

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