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Introducing the UX Marathon – a practice of Lean UX in Visma

October 23, 2015 in Business

As the autumn storms approach and the Swedish afternoons keep getting shorter, a large part of the UX community in Visma (in total consisting of 65 UX practitioners) gather in Stockholm to completely immerse into the user centered design process for three full days. For the second year in a row, Visma UX is getting lined up for the UX ...

Expanding UX knowledge with internal trainings

September 24, 2015 in Visma Life

As the UX (user experience) community at Visma grows, we work to spread throughout our organization the central UX tenet of designing with and for our user. Read about our biannual UX trainings for our R&D colleagues.

Visma UX is growing – on all accounts

May 13, 2015 in Business

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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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.

Per testing Visma's retail solution during Visma UX marathon

Meet our employees – This is Per

November 10, 2014 in Visma Life

Meet Per, he works as a user experience designer. Read more in order to get to know him.

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

The importance of involving users

April 9, 2014 in Business

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

User centered development – the key to making Visma Control twice as efficient

January 7, 2014 in Business

Developing software products is a joint effort. There are several aspects and fields of expertise that need to collaborate in order to create a good product.

How we created a UX-environment at Visma

June 17, 2013 in Business

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.

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 Business

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 ...

Workshop in London: Using Content Strategy to change your organization

October 12, 2012 in Business

Today’s society has access to information from anywhere and through any device. This means more content, and organizations are facing the need to make content clearer. I was assigned to write a HCI guideline for the help function of Visma´s applications. I realized that in order to create a user-friendly help function, I had to work with content. Therefore I ...

User tests not always a success story

September 25, 2012 in Business

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 Business

“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 ...

Frontend Development: Easing the Transition From Guidelines to Implementation

June 29, 2012 in Business

I think most accomplished techies will nod his or her head in agreement when I postulate that you don't push the limits of your knowledge just by reading user manuals and looking at pictures – you need to get your hands dirty. Making software is no different.

How to Create a User-Friendly Specification

June 20, 2012 in Business

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 Business

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 ...

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