Well Done Worldtimebuddy!
On most weeks I need to schedule meetings in several time zones that literally go from the US West Coast to the Australian East Coast, and I got into the… Read more »
Category: user experience
Nobody-Asked-Me Advice to Makers of Custom Visuals for Power BI
As a Power BI consultant I use many custom visuals from the AppSource marketplace and have tested many more, if not most of them. The good news is that there… Read more »
Using Dataflows from Multiple Tenants in Power BI Desktop
Most people working for a single organization are unlikely to run into this use case, but if you’re a consultant like me then this issue will annoy you. In Power… Read more »
The Legend in Power BI Maps: When to Call ‘Feature Complete’?
I’ve spent countless hours comparing features in the various map visuals available for Microsoft Power BI. Each has their strengths and weaknesses and there is not a single option that… Read more »
Power BI: The Missing Productivity Features
These past couple of years I’ve worked extensively with Microsoft Power BI, which in many ways is “the next Excel”, but because it is much more recent, it still has… Read more »
Sign Up Using SSO, Done Right
Kudos to SurveyMonkey for their very clear, user-friendly sign up form (pictured above) that lets you sign up with your existing Google, Facebook,or Microsoft credentials. They’re far from the only SaaS… Read more »
On Game Tutorials, Or Any App Onboarding Really
Whether designing a computer game, a business app, or an API, the premise should be the same: people want to do stuff right away, not meander through attention-challenging learning that… Read more »
SaaS Integration: Multi-Step Workflows & The Category’s Future
Retrieving and remixing data from web APIs and SaaS through two or more steps is a decade-old idea, starting with Yahoo Pipes in 2007 if not earlier (screenshot above from Derek… Read more »
Favorite New Office 2016 Feature: Tell Me
“Tell Me” is Microsoft’s infamous Clippy finally done right, and somehow I hadn’t paid attention until very recently. It gives unobtrusive help when you need it, focused on task completion… Read more »
Why Media Companies Should Pay Attention to Software Development/Operations Integration
Many if not most media companies invest relatively little in software development. But those that do have been grabbing the attention of an increasing number of readers, subscribers, advertisers, and investors. What… Read more »