Building Oracle Partner Fusion Apps UI Integrations in the Cloud with UX Patterns & Guidelines

Oracle has a powerful and rich partner ecosystem that offer many value-add solutions for users of our applications. To get the most of integrating these solutions with Fusion and other applications, ISV developers need to go beyond functionality and p…

Unsaved Changes: Oracle ADF Functional Patterns and Best Practices Shout-out

One UX question that seems comes up now and then with ADF apps is how to handle when users navigate away from an application page that has unsaved or uncommitted changes on it. This might happen when users decide to navigate to another location to look…

UX Design Pattern Spotting with Fusion Mobile Expenses

One of the great things about demoing cool stuff for Oracle Applications User Experience is that you’re entering a world of discovery of – guess what – even more cool stuff! I was showing off the Fusion Mobile Expenses app live recently and explainin…

Showtime! FUSE and Friends at OBUG Connect 2013

Just back from Oracle Benelux User Group’s (OBUG) Connect 2013 where, together with Jeffrey Pease, Oracle Applications Labs VP, we demoed “FUSE”. FUSE is an internal name really, one that got away and has stuck; but make no mistake, it was Oracle …

Shout-outs for Oracle UX Design Patterns Blogs

Here’s three blog posts about publicly-available Oracle UX design patterns that explain why customers and partners are taking to them to build modern enterprise apps’ UIs just as Oracle has. Not only can their developers be productive by using these re…

If Leonardo Did UX: Great SXSWi Insight on Sketching

No, not DiCaprio, the other one: Leonardo da Vinci. Just love this Slideshared preso and audio called Design Like Da Vinci by Brian K. Sullivan (

Don’t Sweat Them UIs: Cloud Makes Them All Part of the Service

For me, one of the most powerful UX pivot points that Cloud offers designers is to build optimized and contextual solutions, reflecting how users’ roles, tasks, goals, environments, and devices–their context of use, if you like–can vary.

Think ab…

Lightweight Simplicity Gets You Hooked: Fishing and Fusion

I’m a fishing nut. Started in the mid-70s using very light tackle, I immediately caught lots of fish from the rocks at the end of my street in Dublin. I’ve been hooked ever since, and fished all over the world, and bought far more angling equipme…

How to Develop Great Oracle Applications User Experiences with Design Patterns

Enterprise application software development is all about being smart with architecture and methodology as well as knowing your code. Best practices such as using software design patterns for the abstraction of UI from logic (for example, the object ori…