10 essential rules for making accessible products
In today’s digital age, accessibility is no longer an afterthought – it’s a fundamental necessity. Here are our top rules and best practices for creating products that cater to diverse user needs.
User experience (UX)
Software for a longer and healthier life
Usability in technology can make all the difference when nurses distribute their time on patients. Read on to learn more about how user-friendly software affects the healthcare industry.
Pushing our buttons: How we design for accessibility
It’s vital that we build products and websites that can be used by everyone, including those using assistive technology, who are colourblind, or who have cognitive disabilities. How is Visma ensuring that its universal design system is accessible for all?
User satisfaction and prejudice
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a single user in possession of a computer, must be in want of a good experience. However a good UX often goes beyond just being acceptable, so what does it take?
7 tips on how to successfully run remote workshops
Although digital collaboration can be challenging, it can also give exceptional results if done right. Working remotely still allows for creativity and cross-functional collaboration. Over the past weeks, we have run several remote workshops and made up some experiences along the way. In this article, we share our top tips on how to succeed.
Build the right things with the Visma UX Value Loop
When we talk about user experience, we talk about the experienced look, feel and usability of a product or service. But to ensure that we deliver products and services that solve real problems and meet user needs and expectations, we need to understand our customers and end-users – really understand them.
Tools for remote design sprint facilitation
As a UX Studio at Visma, we spent last year running remotely all the activities that traditionally require whole team onsite participation such as design sprints, usability tests and problem framing workshops. Here are some of the tools we have used with success.
Visma UX Days 2020: Going remote with 100 designers
Visma aims to be an agile, fast-moving organisation – but how does UX fit in? This year, our annual UX Days event focused on how UX goes together with agile and why business, tech, agile and UX is actually a perfect match.
How we ran a successful Design Sprint remotely
How can you run a workshop with your team–without being in the same room? Read about how we ran a design sprint remotely.
User experience in the electronic health record of the future
The electronic health record of the future (EHR) must meet the users’ needs and solve the tasks an EHR should solve. At the same time, it needs to have an improved structure that provides easy access to the most used elements for the majority of users today, and in the future.
10 actions for a cleaner user interface
How do you create a website with fewer distractions and less friction? Visma Digital Commerce’s UX designer shares 10 tips to get you started.
Visma played a central role in my education
I am a week away from finishing my bachelor studies in interaction design at Malmö University. For me it has been an exciting journey to further my education from lingerie design to user-experience design. Especially looking back at the past year were Visma has played a central role in my education.
Learning UX Fundamentals remotely
In the midst of my colleagues and I working from home, I had the opportunity to learn and test the basics of how we work with UX in Visma. During three days, I participated in a remote version of the training “UX Fundamentals”. At first I was a bit sceptical about the concept of effectively taking and teaching remote classes, but not anymore. By using Google Meet together with the collaboration tool Mural, we had no problems.
Dark mode – soon in an app near you
The Visma Product Design team, working with Visma’s design language Nordic Cool, recently launched a new version of the design language; Nordic Cool 4. On top of the standard version, the team has now launched dark mode.
User research and usability testing -from a safe distance
Meeting the users face to face is always great but sometimes remote user research is the better option. It could be because of budgets, physical distances, the time you have available -or a raging pandemic virus.
Our takeaways from the UX Fundamentals training in Växjö
During 2 days of training in UX Fundamentals in Växjö, we got stuffed with information and tips and tricks on how we can use the UX tools to build our services together with our users.
The higher purpose of design
Making the world a better place through design – too ambitious or something we need to do? How can we apply sustainability to our everyday work? Our UX team set out to answer these questions and more at their recent innovation jam.
Takeaways from the Design Systems Meetup in Oslo
February 12, a Design Systems Meetup was held at DOGA in Oslo. This was a follow up to the Design System Power lunch at Sparebank 1 and a breakfast seminar at Gjensidige. Both events had a good turnout but this meetup shattered all expectations and ended up having over 400 participants, with close to 250 on the waiting list.