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Usability Testing: Why Aren’t We Doing It?

By Chris Poteet on August 18, 2011

I was recently selected to speak at the SPSEMEA SharePoint Saturday. For the talk I wanted to talk about the often forgotten art of usability testing on SharePoint projects. All of the content is generic and applicable enough that you don’t have to be implementing SharePoint to get something from this presentation. The content is […]

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Using hMailServer with SharePoint

By Chris Poteet on November 2, 2010

When testing and/or developing with SharePoint it is helpful to test and use e-mail functionality. You might be working on a workflow or want to demonstrate alerts to potential stakeholders, and it would be nice to do this in your testing environment. The problem is that traditionally Exchange is used for this activity, and when […]

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Economical Usability Testing

By Chris Poteet on January 31, 2008

Usability testing is often overlooked to the peril of both the developer and the consumer. I was convicted reading Steve Krug’s book on usability to go ahead with testing even if it’s small and cheap. In doing this for the recent design of this site I wanted to share how I did usability testing for […]

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