Christina Yue, Customer Learning Manager |

In this episode of PeopleSoft Talk, Marc talks with Matthew Haavisto, Product Strategy Manager, PeopleTools about the PeopleSoft User Experience. Marc and Mathew discuss a variety of topics the including Fluid UI, Classic Plus, and branding. Here are some highlights from the conversation.

What is a “modern user experience”?

Matthew explains how a modern user experience should be intuitive and easy to navigate. It should be role-based, so the user interface is crafted for specific roles within an organization. It is necessary to guide users to help them get through complex or infrequently performed tasks. Also, it should be personalizable; so the user can make it their own, and make it comfortable and familiar to them. A modern user experience should support mobile and be usable across multiple form factors; it should also be visually pleasing and brandable by the organizations that use it.

How does PeopleSoft achieve this?

Through its Fluid UI. Fluid UI is not just a discrete set of features that were added, but a comprehensive and integrated UI that PeopleSoft has completely reimagined. It meets all of the requirements mentioned previously.

What’s Peoplesoft’s strategy for delivering Fluid UI pages?

As users take new images, they will get new Fluid content all the time, with every image that they get from PeopleSoft. This includes things in HCM like onboarding, life events, homepages in FSCM, etc.

Not everything is delivered in Fluid, so how does PeopleSoft make that strategic decision to deliver this page in Fluid or not?

Mobility and self-service were the main drivers for determining prioritization on whether or not something is made Fluid.

What has PeopleSoft done with Fluid UI via PeopleTools?

One of the biggest areas is configurability. There are two aspects of configurability that benefits customers – the ability to tailor the UI to the enterprise’s needs and their customers’ demands and to reduce or isolate customizations.

What happens with pages where Fluid UI is not merited?

Classic and Fluid pages can coexist together perfectly well – functionally there is not a problem. There are some business processes that may include both Classic and Fluid pages and the only issue there is appearance. Classic Plus is used to fix the appearance where Classic and Fluid pages coexist.

For more information on User Experience, Fluid UI and Classic Plus check out the full video: PeopleSoft Talk with Marc Weintraub: The PeopleSoft User Experience featuring Matthew Haavisto.

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