From User Assistance to User Guidance

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Making user assistance fail-safe is never really going to work. Users have a mind of their own and you cannot force them to read the manuals and follow the procedure. To cure this weakest link in the planning, execution and reporting of procedural work, we need to take the user by the hand and lead them through well-defined procedures step by step, at the same time recording all the user actions and input automatically. In this way, we optimize the work (in efficiency and reliability) and the reporting (by automatically capturing data instead of relying on the goodwill of a user to fill out a survey, or a tired service engineer to write a full report at the end of a long working day). The demo (not included in the slides) shows an application platform running on an iPad (also available for Windws and Android tablets as well as smartphones and web browsers), allowing easy assembly of procedures out of small LEGO-type building blocks. Data is captured as the user is proceedng and only applicable steps are displayed. At the end of the day, performance data (of machines, of engineers, of the procedures themselves) is available for business analists to optimize the business further.

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© 2014 - JANG Communication - Amsterdam, Netherlands

From UA to UG (+ BI)Jang F.M. Graat

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who's talking ?Jang F.M. Graat

Psychology, Philosophy

25+ years Tech Comm

self-taught professional

DITA, XSLT, javascript

addicted to challenge

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what is this talk about ?

user assistance

user guidance

business intelligence

user assistance

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minimalism

only what users need

action-oriented

support error recovery

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optimizing assistanceprinted manual

help file

context-sensitive help

user analysis/categorizing

progressive disclosure

embedded help

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optimizing productiontopic-based authoring

single-sourcing

automated transforms

conditional content

personalizing info

feedback mechanisms

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modern technology

interactive media

dynamic content

hand-held devices

central storage/servers

usage & usability tracking

user guidance

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procedural knowledge

consulting manuals

training courses

formalized procedures

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optimizing the work

user & task analysis

procedures lead users

reduce learning curve

standardize the work

basis for planning

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modern technology

interactive media

dynamic content

hand-held devices

central storage/servers

usage & input tracking

business intelligence

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optimizing the businessproduct improvement

predictive maintenance

service staff planning

equipment optimization

service staff education

customer training

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how to get the data

usability research

customer feedback

service staff reports

surveys

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modern technology

interactive media

capture input/comments

track itinerary

timestamps on sign-offs

collect data in server

UA + UG + BI

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one server connects all

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app building blocks

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capturing/reusing data

time for a demo !

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questions ?

Jang F.M. Graat

Amsterdam, NL

jang@jang.nl

@4everJang

www.jang.nl