Your road to success: Make your users kick ass by putting the Task front and center

Synopsis:
As database people we may think that as long as we provide a set of forms and reports to create, read, update, and delete the data in our tables, applying some constraints and validation, we are well on our way to delivering a user-friendly business application.
That may be true for a simple Northwind-style application, but if we're talking about a more complex application there are other considerations, and you are doing your clients a big favor taking them into account. We're talking about items such as:
• Minimizing training time for new users
• Minimizing time needed to perform a task
○ Consistent form layout. Metro design concepts.
• Supervisor visibility in work getting completed.
○ Monitor productivity
○ Reassign and re-prioritize tasks
In this talk we will touch on a few of these and focus on a task-driven approach, which forces us to think differently and build solutions that are easier to learn and easier to use.