{"id":3296,"date":"2009-10-12T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/10\/12\/enterprise-lipstick-james-governor-at-adobe-max-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T09:25:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:25:47","slug":"enterprise-lipstick-james-governor-at-adobe-max-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/10\/12\/enterprise-lipstick-james-governor-at-adobe-max-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Lipstick &#8211; James Governor at Adobe MAX 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"video embed\">\n<p>While at Adobe MAX 2009, I ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/\">James<\/a> to give his brain-dump on applying usability and &#8220;sexy&#8221; design to enterprise applications. While it&#8217;s traditionally been a hard sell &#8211; evidenced by how terrible most enterprise applications look &#8211; several cracks are starting to form in the idea that paying for pretty isn&#8217;t worth it for enterprise software.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some highlights and links mentioned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2009\/09\/04\/front-ends-portal-plasticity-glue-to-putty-sap-to-adobe-2\/\">Making portals prettier<\/a><\/li>\n<li>James recalls the internal training app T-Mobile demo&#8217;ed from an old Adobe MAX. Getting enterprises to make their inward facing applications look better and be more usable.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Scott&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com\/\">Looks Good, Works Well<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Adobe buying Omniture &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2009\/09\/17\/adobe-omniture-data-meets-design-here-comes-google\/\">James write-up<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/09\/16\/adobeomniture\/\">my write-up<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/10\/16\/fedex\/\">FedEx Critical&#8217;s use of internal RIAs as an internal application<\/a> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/lagrangepoint.typepad.com\/lagrange\/2009\/10\/blogging-live-from-adobe-max-keynote-in-la-day-2-adobemax.html\">a write-up in this larger coverage of the Adobe MAX keynote<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Adobe is a client and paid travel and hotel for Adobe MAX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James speaks to usability for enterprise software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,27,29],"tags":[62,66,68,605],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-enterprise-software","category-redmonktv","category-ria","tag-adobe","tag-adobemax","tag-adobemax2009","tag-portals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}