User Experience Thinking: Lotus Hannover

Ed Brill reports about how IBM have been doing their Hannover development:

The very last section of the keynote featured Mike Rhodin and Ron discussing and demonstrating Notes “Hannover”.  Announced last June at the DNUG/IBM event, Mike went into detail as to what has transpired since then.  Mike talked about “outside-in design” by focusing on the user experience first, and then making the architecture of the software match the design.  He also emphasised the open nature of the Notes “Hannover” platform.  Then came the big announcement — The Notes “Hannover” release will include spreadsheet/presentation/word processing productivity tools supporting the newly ratified Open Document Format .  “We are going to provide an open alternative”. 

For me the big news was that they are focusing on the ‘user experience first’.

Tags: IBM Lotus,User Experience,Hannover,Notes+Domino