Patrick is a UX certified Nielsen Norman Group Professional specializing in site builds, migrations, and user experience. He has over 20 years experience working with clients as a project manager in many different fields. Patrick brings a unique understanding blending design, user experience, and project management to work with clients. He is skilled at balancing those goals against the project scope, requests, timeline, as well as easing concerns around the changes the projects can bring. Patrick enjoys digging content to help build strong information architecture as well as helping clients understand user experience and helping them implement best practices.
Have you heard about flexible sections but are struggling how to figure out how to implement them? After years of the SharePoint modern layouts, flexible sections are a breath of fresh air. Figuring out when and how to implement them in a strategic and complimentary way within your organization's governance and within usability better practices can be a challenge. In this session, we'll *Review the added benefits of flexible sections and how they can seamlessly integrate into your current intranet *Discuss better practices around usability and how information is presented *Discuss the pros and cons of implementation when it comes to governance and accessibility This session is designed for those with a basic understanding of SharePoint page layouts who want to update their current intranet. The aim is for you to leave with an understanding how beneficial flexible sections are and which pitfalls to avoid.
Read moreEveryone agrees creating a robust information architecture is important for your intranet sites. Do we put in the same effort into our Teams and collaboration sites? By applying basic information architecture principles to collaborations sites we can help our teams work more effectively, lower cognitive load of our users, and be more efficient in how they do it. In this session I’ll cover • Key usability heuristics to help make your team more effective • How to organize content to make better use of search • Incorporating good information architecture to assist users in finding documents easily • How to combine the visual aspects of SharePoint Teams sites into Microsoft Teams Join me in this session as I share firsthand experiences from working with clients, highlighting specific obstacles and how implementing practical usability better practices, improved their collaboration experiences.
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