Sketches, Doodles, UI Patterns or Poodles? Conditioned Responses & User Interfaces: Part 1

User Interfaces rely on the common knowledge of the person using the interface.  What establishes the perception of good UI, is really based on conditioning.

by Damon Sanchez Mar 2, 2016

Installing Azure Multi-Factor Authentication - Part 3

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by Bill Hughes Feb 23, 2016

Installing Azure Multi-Factor Authentication - Part 2

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by Bill Hughes Feb 4, 2016

Installing Azure Multi-Factor Authentication - Part 1

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by Bill Hughes Jan 26, 2016

Three Macro User Personas Walk into a Bar & the Art of What Makes Us the Same

There is a reason why a lot of classical jokes start out with 3 individuals walking into a bar. It isn’t because the punchline to these jokes are any better than “Why did the Chicken Cross The Road?” or “Knock-Knock… Who’s There…”

It is because by starting the joke out with 3 variations of people it drastically raises the chances that 1 of the cohorts in the joke resembles or has characteristics of someone in the audience.

by Damon Sanchez Sep 30, 2015

InfoPath 2013 for Office 365 ProPlus

InfoPath 2013 is sticking true to the continuing support statements that were made about the software by releasing a standalone version.  For anyone who was running the Office 365 ProPlus edition of Microsoft Office, it was not possible to also run InfoPath.  Thankfully this has now changed and the standalone version can run side-by-side with Office and is now available to download from Microsoft.

by Drew Madelung Sep 8, 2015

A User Persona on a User Journey & the Art of Baking a Chocolate Cake

There is no better example of trying to understand the power of a User Journey than Baking Directions in that there are certain steps that make logical sense and some steps that are put forth because they help someone feel comfortable in understanding the process.

by Damon Sanchez Aug 17, 2015

SharePoint Summit 2015 Materials

I had the chance to participate in Concurrency's first ever SharePoint Summit that crossed multiple cities in the Midwest.  There was awesome audience participation with some great questions. It was ...

by Drew Madelung Jul 30, 2015

Issues Moving SharePoint Access Apps Between Farms

I hit an issue recently that was a little tricky in regards to Access Services and SharePoint 2013.  (Not Access Services 2010)  The issue arose when saving an Access app that was created in a develo...

by Drew Madelung Jul 22, 2015

User Experience UX & Emotional Connections - The Visual Language of Strawberry Ice-Cream

In the previous blog post I talked extensively about User Interface Design and the core questions that need to be asked during the UI phase of a project. During the post I discussed how the strategy ...

by Damon Sanchez Jul 14, 2015

Windows 10 Universal Print Not Showing Up

The team at Concurrency had made the transition to Zero Trust a couple years ago, with all laptops running Windows 10, Azure AD join, Intune managed, guest network joined, etc. The other day I had a reason to print a document, something that I haven’t done professionally in well over five years. Unfortunately, when searching […]

by Nathan Lasnoski Mar 12, 2021