January Update

Projects still truckin’ along:

MOSS HID Den pilot site.   The design work for the Global Trigger Tool is completed, as well as v1 of the BRD – now I’m awaiting the assignment of a developer to work with on it.  The Oregon region website work is still pending.  I completed the review of the applicant pages and handed off my findings and recommendations – the customer was very pleased with my work.  The Reportal project is heating up with some solid work on metadata creation coming next week.

The only new project as of today is helping with a new intranet FAQ tool’s GUI standards.  Sounds interesting, but I haven’t received any details yet.

Continue to work on our iDUX sharepoint site, and study, study, study!

MOSS, GTT, PHOR, HR & Reportal, oh my!

The MOSS implementation continues.  I’ve been working with a Web Content Coordinator on a MOSS pilot of the HID Den as a way of showing and testing with users some of the features that MOSS will bring to the PeaceHealth intranet.

 The Global Trigger Tool is coming together well.  I’ve done a second mock-up of the UI and am waiting for customer sign-off on the design before going ahead with a developer (though there may be some added functionality being requested here soon…).  Also working on the BRD for this one.

 Looks like I may be doing some user testing for the Oregon region’s .org website as they integrate new Riverbend content.  It’ll be a great opportunity to match navigation and terminology to user’s tasks and goals on the internet side of operations.

 System HR wants us (WUDs) to do an expert review of their applicant system vendor product to help make it more user friendly.  This one is exciting because they asked for our involvement and it’s fairly high profile.

And I continue to help with the Reportal project as needed, as backup during contextual interviews, thought partnering the processes and solutions, and offering any insights that I can from my tangential perspective.

Tumor Board and Vascular Screening

My latest project is working on the creation of a database application for vascular screening.  It’s the first project I’ve been able to do from the start, meaning that I’m working with the customers and nailing down their tasks and workflows before passing the findings on to the developer.  I just finished writing up my findings and handing them off today.  It’s a fairly simple app/workflow/task set, but it also feels really satisfying to be shaping the User Experience from the get go for this app.

The Tumor Board app has been finished, but I’m still waiting to hear whether it’s been released to the customer yet.  When it has I’m planning on doing some testing with them to make sure their tasks can be completed and that the app is usable.  I’m also working on getting data sets from a vendor app into this app in order to avoid having data typed in manually by the radiologists – a process that’s not only time consuming but error prone.

I closed the Form Tool Redesign survey and passed on the findings to the the developer.  No amazing new discoveries, and an unfortunately small survey response (only three!), but better than nothing I suppose.  Not sure what the status of that project currently is, but it’s in the developer’s hands now.

The intranet directory redesign has been rolled out to much acclaim and positive feedback.  I’m gratified to have had a small part in making it a usable tool.

D and I have been involved in coming up with a long term URL naming strategy that takes into account a new production environment (moving from FrontPage to a MOSS/SharePoint environment) and new servers.  There exists a palpable tension between making the URL’s user friendly and the transition seamless and having the solution be technically feasable and doable (from an introducing new workflow stance) for the developers.  We’re still working through all the complications and concerns.

Also continuing to work with D on the Vision2012 Communication websites – many more interviews, conceptual models and requirements gatherings to go.

Looks like I may be travelling down to Eugene, OR at the end of July to take part in an Information Architecture discussion with MS about the new MOSS environment.