Participate in activities going on in the User Experience Lab
View the latest product design concepts, experience mobile product designs, talk to our social solutions designers, and provide feedback to improve the information experience. Meet the designers, user researchers, and information architects responsible for the direction of our products. Participate in hands-on activities and tell us what you need.
Lab Hours: Monday, January 16 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM Tuesday, January 17 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM Wednesday, January 18 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM Thursday, January 19 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Visit these stations in the lab located in Asia 4:
Station 1: IBM User Research and Future Studies
See how we conduct research and sign up for an opportunity to participate in future studies. Discuss with us what you would like to see improved in the products that you use.
Station 2: Connections and LotusLive
To influence our future design directions, help us prioritize the most important scenarios in which you would use these products to complete daily tasks. Try out the next version of Connections and let us know how you like it. Give us feedback on our new features, including enhanced community functionality and integration of the social business toolkit.
Station 3: Editing in the Cloud with IBM Docs
Check out IBM's new web editors and tell us what is most important to you in a document editor, a presentation editor, or a spreadsheet editor.
Station 4: Design Your Information Experience
How do you use information either as a new or an experienced product user? How can the Lotus and WebSphere Portal product wikis be more effective in giving you the information that you need? Help influence the direction that we take with your product information experience.
Station 5: Sametime
Real-time collaboration is critical to your business. Come to the Sametime UX station to give us input on future designs and to discuss your requirements for online meetings, instant messaging, and using audio and video.
Station 6: Making Your Business Solutions Social
Learn about the core design principles that make a business solution into a social business. See the common set of patterns and artifacts that we're designing and help influence their design. Tell us about your favorite business solutions, and we can talk about how using social media can enhance the outcome of the solutions.
Station 7: Social Mail
View and interact with demos of the social mail beta in Connections 4 and help us shape the future user experience design. Provide your feedback and unique insights on how social mail might best be used by your company or organization.
Station 8: What's Next for Lotus iNotes and Lotus Notes
See a showcase of what we're considering for the next releases. Let us know what you think of these features and provide feedback on potential improvements.
Station 9: LotusDomino Designer and XPages
Do you want influence the future direction of your application development tools? Stop by and give us feedback on Lotus Domino Designer, the XPages extension library, XPages templates, and more.
Station 10: Mobile Applications
Select a device, select a product, and get a first look at the latest mobile products from IBM. This station featuresAndroid and iOS phone and tablet apps for Sametime, Connections, and Traveler. Come by and give us your feedback on future designs and prototypes.
Station 11: WebSphere Portal, Social Portal with Connections, and IBM Web Content Manager
Provide your input on the new and future plans for integrating IBM Connections and IBM Web Content Manager into WebSphere Portal. Come by and give us your feedback on future designs and scenarios.
Station 12: Design Your Video Experience
Tell us how you find and use product videos, and what you expect from our videos in the future. Preview the videos that were submitted for VideoFest, and help select a new design for the wiki Video Gallery.
Special Events
Are you curious about product design? Do you want to get more involved? Join us for one or more of the following special sessions in the User Experience Lab (Asia 4).
Special Events
Monday 1/16/12
Date: Monday, January 16, 2012 Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm Topic: "IBM Collaboration Solutions Future Product Design Direction" Speakers: Chris Paul, Director, User Experience; Ethan Perry, STSM; Brian Utesch, STSM. Abstract: How is the user experience(UX) of IBM Collaboration Solutions products designed? What role does Lotusphere play in ongoing collaboration with customers? The ICS User Experience Director, Chris Paul, and UX Design and User Research Senior Technical Staff Members, Ethan Perry and Brian Utesch, will discuss how design direction is set, the importance of user adoption, and how you are engaged in the design process. Bring your questions to this interactive session.
Tuesday 1/17/12
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Time: 9:30am - 10:30am Topic: "Mobile User Experience Directions" Speakers: Tyler Walters, Chris Reckling Abstract: Social Business and mobile technology go hand in hand. See where we are going in designing mobile apps for tablets and smartphones in 2012. Provide feedback on the design directions and helpprioritize features.
Wednesday 1/18/12
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Time: 9:30am - 10:30am Topic: "Meet the User Experience Designers" Speakers: Amy Travis, Margo Ezekiel, Ethan Perry, Eric Wilcox Abstract: Join our lead user experience designers and talk with us about our design challenges and future design directions in a fun and lively session. It's your chance to see how we design your favorite products.
Real-Time Social with the IBM Connections Suite
Tue, May 15th 2012 7:44a Suzanne Livingston So you love Connections. And you love Sametime. Now you can both in one package, with much more! Today, we announced the electronic availability of the IBM Connections Suite. The Connections Suite gives you one single package that includes: IBM Connections 3.0.1 IBM Sametime Advanced 8.5.2 IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client 8.5.2 IBM FileNet Content Manager 5.1 (restricted license) IBM Quickr Connectors Luis posted some great demo videos and information in his blog this morning. I hig [read] Keywords: connections
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Connections101.net Podcast
Mon, May 7th 2012 2:04p Suzanne Livingston Have you heard about the new IBM Connections 101 education site? If you haven't seen it yet, Gabriella Davis and Paul Mooney launched Connections 101 - a site aimed at helping people set up an IBM Connections environment from scratch, especially those with a Domino background or who have never worked with WebSphere. I really like how they are focusing on educating people about the whys, not just the whats. This is really helpful to people who are unfamiliar with the application server, database [read] Keywords: connections
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Stop switching apps and create an embedded experience!
Mon, May 7th 2012 8:24a Suzanne Livingston This tutorial shares information on creating embedded experiences, which allow you to embed your app or other apps into various IBM collaboration solutions. There is some great information on how to create an embedded experience on our product wiki. Here's a snapshot of what's available and links to the resources. An embedded experience is a way for applications to embed content into other applications and let users interact dynamically with that content directly in context without having [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Diane Loomis shares a quick story on using Activities
Wed, May 2nd 2012 2:24p Suzanne Livingston I wanted to share the effectiveness of Connections Activities in running a small project and, as a part of that, managing meetings and actions from meetings. I held a meeting this morning and a number of team members couldn't attend because of conflicts or the late notice. At the end of the day, eight hours after the meeting ended, most of the ToDos have been completed already, including those assigned to people who did not attend the meeting! In addition to the 'ToDo' items explicitly c [read] Keywords: connections
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Lesson Learned
Fri, Apr 6th 2012 10:23a Joseph Russo Doing a set of user surveys recently, with college students - I learned this interesting item, something I've kind of "sought" in my designs and it was very exciting to hear it verbalized. In this test, one of the questions asked was, what 2 or 3 software applications do you use the most? When I asked a small group of students, they all came back with the same answer - Microsoft Office. Now, I prodded them a little and asked, do they use Office more frequently than say, they use, Fa [read] Keywords: administration
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How do you work with the IBM Connections wiki?
Fri, Feb 24th 2012 6:44a Luis Benitez As we start planning for future releases of IBM Connections, we wanted to understand how users, for example, are using Wikis to ensure that we are investing in the right areas. Just like it doesn't make sense to invest in Internet Explorer 6 these days, we want to know how users are leveraging the editors in the Wikis component of IBM Connections. Currently, we support 3 editors in Wikis: Rich Text Editor, HTML Editor, and Wiki Text Editor. The three approaches to editing content are very [read] Keywords: connections
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Write your blog with Blogsy!
Fri, Feb 17th 2012 8:23a Luis Benitez We are always interested in highlighting what our partners are doing in terms of building applications. Blogsy, one of the top rated blogging applications for iPad has just been updated to support IBM Connections. Built by Fomola, Blogsy provides yet another option for iPad users to blog within IBM Connections while on the go. Check out what Lance Barton from Fomola had to say about the newly added support for IBM Connections in Blogsy: - First, tell us what Blogsy does? In s [read] Keywords: connections
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Help shape the future user experience of the IBM Smart Cloud/LotusLive
Mon, Feb 13th 2012 11:43a Suzanne Livingston The IBM User Experience Research team would like your feedback on the lotuslive.com web experience. You will be asked to complete three tasks which should take no more than 20 minutes. Please start the study here: https://s.userzoom.com/m/MSBDOVM1NTM_ Thank you for helping to improve the user experience! [read] Keywords: ibm
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