If you follow any SOLIDWORKS fanatic on social media, you’ve probably seen the phrase “SOLIDWORKS is everywhere” over the years. The phrase takes on multiple meanings: from the products you create with SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD, to you, our amazing, worldwide user community.
Similarly, what “SOLIDWORKS” means to each of us is bound to be a bit different. In some senses, we’re talking about a software package when we use the term. For some of us, we think of where we got our start in engineering, or where we first started to feel we belonged within a professional community of likeminded peers.
Over the past few months on SOLIDWORKS LIVE, we’ve checked in on each of these aspects of the SOLIDWORKS experience – including “user experience!” In this article, we’ll provide brief teaser summaries of episodes pertaining to user experience, education, the user community, and more.
User Groups, Content Creators, and SOLIDWORKS Champions
On the SOLIDWORKS 2023 What’s New episode, I joked with my colleague Mark Peterson that the one experience common to all is “user experience.” And a month later, we did our first video podcast-style episode of SOLIDWORKS LIVE, when I sat down for a freeform conversation with SOLIDWORKS UX Director, Kevin Berni.
Within this episode, we covered a lot of ground. Kevin offered several personal insights on questions like:
- What does the UX team do? And how is the UX team integrated into R&D?
- Historically, what have been some of the hardest types of UX problems to solve?
- When it comes to user input and feedback: How does the UX team use user feedback?
- What is the importance of user feedback in terms of what we are doing in SOLIDWORKS R&D?
- What are the ways the UX team is gathering feedback?
- What are some of the biggest UX challenges the team is trying to solve today?
- What’s really been top of mind?
- How is the UX team handling its time and resources when it comes to SOLIDWORKS Desktop and 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS?
Each of the episodes embedded above offer different perspectives on what is going on, worldwide, when it comes to “SOLIDWORKS” – whether we are talking about the software package, or the various types of user community members that call it ‘home.’
Just a reminder that our annual user event, 3DEXPERIENCE World is coming soon so if you haven’t already, be sure and register. Click here or on the banner below.
Sean O'Neill