Sonar6 - Performance Management Blog

Sonar6 has made a name for itself as one of the most accessible and user friendly performance review systems available - but that didn’t happen by chance. We spend a huge amount of time researching and refining our interface, and with an audience as diverse as ours, that’s something we can’t afford to get wrong.

In this article Catherine Bircher, Sonar6’s Quality Lead, discusses some of the challenges we face when it comes to designing our UI, and what we’re doing to make Sonar6 v3 easy for everyone to use.

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While Sonar6 is already recognised as the most user-friendly performance and talent management system on the market, we decided we could make things
better: even more attractive and even easier to use.

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Phil Wainewright is a man with plenty of exposure to software and its evolution in the marketplace. I really enjoyed his latest piece on usability of software - Users always have the final say - how is it that so much software gets developed without usability as a key criterion?

Software users always vote with their fingers and it costs companies millions. It doesn’t take me long to think of an example - a company I worked for that deployed three CRM systems in 4 years at a cost of millions - all decommissioned within months of go live!

Make it usable or don’t bother.