Product Review: Central Desktop 2.0’s User Experience Transformed with UI Changes
I came from the internet heyday when the user experience was trumpeted as the holy grail of application development. As a designer I worked under a head of User Experience and the UI was a key focus of many development projects. That has never left me. I still believe products that have distanced themselves over competitors usually have a User Experience advantage like Apple in its design of iTunes and iPhone. If you look at the competitive SaaS market the winners over time will be those who focus on UI in regards to how it affects the User Experience. Central Desktop seems to understand this now. Originally although Central Desktop has been a good-value sharepoint alternative it has left something to be desired in the User Experience arena. It was a … Read entire article »
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Central Desktop with Project Portfolio Integration and Features
One of the main things I like about Central Desktop is its ease of use and its ability to help me manage simple projects. Its features make it pretty easy to start a project and keep track of milestones, tasks and related documents. But what do you do when one project becomes more or if you start off by having to manage upwards of 10 or 20 projects? Will Central Desktop easily be able to track multiple projects, prioritize and allow alignment of projects to business goals? The answer I think is that right now though you might be able to do it, it wouldn’t be an elegant or user-friendly solution. That is why I would suggest that Central Desktop create at least some lite Project Portfolio Management features. The key ones … Read entire article »
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Product Strategy Review: Central Desktop for the Large Enterprise
When You Need Collaboration Up Quickly Central Desktop Works! I have had several projects at Fortune 500 companies where a collaboration tool was needed to be implemented but where a department couldn’t move forward because the company hadn’t decided which tool they were going to standardize on. For example, even though other departments were using Sharepoint, it was difficult for us to get approval for Sharepoint fast enough to meet our project deadlines. So what I ended up doing was just getting my own account setup of Central Desktop and used it as my own project library. It was actually one of my better decisions. Everyone was impressed how well organized the project was and it was easy to present at meetings on a projector screen. I would just login and … Read entire article »
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