Queensland Treasury
Haze Software assisted Queensland Treasury in the delivery of its new SharePoint business system, Nexus. Adhering to a user experience focused design, development and testing process resulted in the creation of a strategically important business system that has experienced a strong user adoption.
The challenge
The primary role of Haze Software was to ensure a best-in-class user experience along with corporate brand re-development and conceptual graphic design to help ensure organisation-wide adoption of this core business system.
The approach
Championing the role of users and working closely with the Treasury project team – including their third party SharePoint partner – throughout the design and development process was essential for helping keep user experience as a key focus for the project.
Usability testing
Identifying user attitudes to the current system was done through a number of empirical user research techniques such as user and stakeholder interviews, focus groups, observation testing and card sorting.
Sharepoint innovation
Future development is supported by our creation of online, rather than static, style guides, allowing new developers to understand the complex issues like responsive design and interactive behaviour.
Quality assurance
A detailed review of the implementation ensured the accessibility, interfaces, and code met industry standards as well as user experience recommendations.
The outcome
Queensland Treasury was one of the first government departments to adopt SharePoint 2013. Innovative user experience solutions from this project – including the design and interfaces – are now being implemented by other government departments and statutory bodies. This legacy is a credit to our team’s expertise in both user experience design and front end development.
We still maintain the strong working relationship with Queensland Treasury, often providing consultancy and advice services for the new areas of the Nexus as the system continues to grow and develop.