Spotlight on Upcoming User Experience Changes
Here at Civix we work hard every day to ensure that EM Grants Manager remains the industry leading Grants Management Software solution. This involves constantly expanding the available features and functionality of the system, while ensuring that the user experience remains simple, intuitive and enjoyable. We also work to ensure that we meet the various accessibility needs some users may have.
To further improve user experience and accessibility requirements, two new updates will go live in EM Grants Manager on May 5, 2025.
What Are The Updates?
1. Easier, Direct Access to Listings
Current Process:
When a user clicks on any of the listings found under the menus located in the main navigation at the top of the screen, they will encounter a box where they can choose filters. This dialog box allows a user to first apply filters before generating the listing, if they want to do so (See Figure 1 below)
Reason for Updating:
This dialog box may not be intuitive or necessary to users, since most do not want to apply any filters. Industry standard typically allows the user to apply filters to a listing after they generated the listing, not before. Since most users also have user assignments in place, the results of listings are already filtered to only items within their assignments.
When a user clicks on a listing, the listing will instantly load and provide quicker and more direct access to the information they are looking for. Filters can still easily be applied by clicking on the “Filter” button.
2. More Recognizable Buttons on Listings
Current View:
In the top right corner of a listing, there are three icons for Filter, Export and Print functions.
Future View:
To improve user accessibility, create more intuitive navigation and be more recognizable to users new to the system, the icons will be replaced by three buttons with clear labels for each.
