Recognizing that employees don't enjoy using ugly, clunky enterprise software, and will use their own, less secure "shadow IT" in its place, vendors have begun emphasizing design in software meant for enterprise desktops, laptops and mobile devices.

With help from EMC Syncplicity, the folks at ITbusinessedge.com have come up with several tips for designing user-friendly apps that nevertheless meet the demands of enterprise IT.

Click through to check out some of their ideas, and click here to see ITbusinessedg.com's original post.