UX Kick Start Start your UX project off on the right foot. Presented For DalMob Conclave – January 2012 By Mark Kraemer, Credera.com On January 10, 2012
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Mark Kraemer @kraemer
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Agenda: • What is UX? • The UX Brief • UX & Mobile • Kick Start
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500,000 ���Android Applications
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Is your niche already filled? That’s OK. You can always do it better.
User experience is a term used to describe the overall experience and satisfaction a user has when using a product or system. From Wikipedia
User experience is a term used to describe the overall experience and satisfaction a user has when using a product or system. From Wikipedia
Our Goal is to create sites and applications that people like to use.
Great. That’s a lot to cover.
Where do I start?
The UX Stack is a useful framework to organize the success criteria for your next project.
Technology
Form
Content
Audience
Purpose Who do we need to achieve the goal?
What content and features are the audience expec7ng?
What logical and emo7onal design influence the experience?
How is the message physically presented?
What are we trying to achieve?
Purpose: Why are stakeholders investing in this project?
The more you understand about the nature of your users, the be;er suited you’ll be for success. Keeping the client purpose in mind will help avoid resembling the quote we’re all warned by in Jurassic Park: “Yeah, but your scienGsts were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
Audience: Who are your primary (and other) users?
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What are your users really doing? Ask them! Watch them? They’ll love you for it.
Content: What do people want to know and do while using the site or application?
Script : Motion Picture :: Product Backlog : Your App
Form
Tone
Globally Relevant Content
Locally Relevant Content
EnterpriseGateway
Most localization and translation occurs
here on a local basis.
Some localization and translation occurs
here as appropriate.
Knowledge Center
Creation & Innovation
Center
Portal Standards
& Guidelines
Business Intelligence
Globally Relevant Lines of Business
Cash in TransitBrinks Global ServicesATM/ABM ServicesCoin ServicesCash LogisticsVirtual Vault ServicesBrinks CompuSafe ServiceIntelligent SafesWeb-based Information ToolsGuarding ServicesSecurity ServicesDocument DestructionSecure Data SolutionsKey HoldingWarehousingCROSSAviation SecurityInternet Coin ServiceCCTV Surveillance CentersSecurity ConditioningFlipper
Individual Line of
Business
Training
Document Templates
Best Practices
Contacts
Globally Relevant
Operations
AdministrationBusiness DevelopmentBusiness SolutionsClient ServicesCommercial SalesCommoditiesCustomer SupportEmployee RelationsEngineeringFinanceFirearms & TrainingFleet & ProcurementHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyLegalMarketing & CommunicationOperationsPerformance Improvement
Individual Department
Training
Document Templates
Best Practices
Contacts
Corporate Content
WhitepapersAnnual ReportsPrinciples & EthicsBranding GuidelinesCorporate NewsOrg Charts
GlobalEmployee Directory
Client & Customer
Information
Listing by Geography
In the News
Listing
Countries
ArgentinaBoliviaColumbiaPuerto RicoBrazilVenezuelaChileMexicoPeruPanamaCanadaUnited StatesHollandFranceHungaryGreeceIsraelGermanyBelgiumSwitzerlandIrelandNetherlandsUnited KingdomJordanLuxembourgRussiaPolandItalyDubaiCzech RepublicMoroccoBahrainEl SalvadorSouth AfricaTurkeyMalaysiaSouth KoreaPhilippinesVietnamChinaJapanIndiaTaiwan!ailandAustraliaSingaporeHong Kong
Individual Country
Branches
Country Operations
CountryLines of Business
Country-Relevant News & Events
Country Tasks & Activities
Custom Business
Applications
Document Repository &
Fileshare
APACEMEAUSBGSLA
Regions
Individual Region
Country Listing
Regional Operations
Regional-Relevant News & Events
Regional Lines of Business
Individual Branch
Branch-Relevant News & Events
BranchLines of Business
Branch Operations
Document Repository &
FIleshare
Maps & Directions
Form is both the logical and the emotional.
1. The Upper Right-‐Hand Corner That’s the prime spot where diners’ eyes automaGcally go first. Balthazar uses it to highlight a tasteful, expensive pile of seafood. Generally, pictures of food are powerful mo<vators but also menu taboos—mostly because they’re used extensively in lowbrow chains like Chili’s and Applebee’s. This illustraGon “is as far as a restaurant of this caliber can go, and it’s used to draw a?en<on to two of the most expensive orders,” Poundstone says. 2. The Anchor The main role of that $115 pla;er—the only three-‐digit thing on the menu—is to make everything else near it look like a rela<ve bargain, Poundstone says. 3. Right Next Door At a mere $70, the smaller seafood pla;er next to Le Balthazar seems like a deal, though there’s no sense of how much food you’re geXng. It’s an indefinite comparison that also feels like an indulgence—a win-‐win for the restaurant. 4. In The Vicinity The restaurant’s high-‐profit dishes tend to cluster near the anchor. Here, it’s more seafood at prices that seem comparaGvely modest. 5. Columns Are Killers According to Brandon O’Dell, one of the consultants Poundstone quotes in Priceless, it’s a big mistake to list prices in a straight column. “Customers will go down and choose from the cheapest items,” he says. At least the Balthazar menu doesn’t use leader dots to connect the dish to the price; that draws the diner’s gaze right to the numbers. Consultant Gregg Rapp tells clients to “omit dollar signs, decimal points, and cents … It’s not that customers can’t check prices, but most will follow whatever subtle cues are provided.” 6. The Benefit Of Boxes “A box draws a?en<on and, usually, orders,” Poundstone says. “A really fancy box is be;er yet. The fromages at the bo;om of the menu are probably high-‐profit puzzles.” 7. Menu Siberia That’s where low-‐margin dishes that the regulars like end up. The examples here are the easy-‐to-‐miss (and rela<vely inexpensive) burgers. 8. Bracke<ng A regular trick, it’s when the same dish comes in different sizes. Here, that’s done with steak tartare and ravioli—but because “you never know the por<on size, you’re encouraged to trade up,” Poundstone says. “Usually the smaller size is perfectly adequate.”
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Technology
Technology is not just back end. What will your audience use?
What device? • Smart phone / small handheld • Tablet (what resoluGon)
What delivery mechanism? • NaGve app • Web app / site
What opera<ng system? • iOS • Android • Windows Mobile
The framework is universal across all communication. Think of it in terms of today’s event.
Technology
Form
Content
Audience
Purpose < who was the audience? >
< what were the primary and secondary messages? >
< what kind of tone did we use? >
< what kind of media / technology did we use? >
< what was the goal today? >
The brief is great.
But how does this apply to my app?
How is your current application / site?
Applying the communicaGon framework to your own applicaGon or website is a good way to consider how it can be improved to be;er
serve your business
Self-Assessment Sample Questions
• How does the current applicaGon helping users achieve their goals?
• Does it reach out / accommodate each specific audience?
• Does it provide all the content / funcGonality they need?
• Is your brand represented with the quality and value you’re seeking? Is the site a pleasure for its visitors?
• How does the site render on a variety of devices? Landscape? Portrait?
Time for group exercise!
Time for group exercise!
Who is the target customer?
What is the customer need?
What is the product name?
What is its market category?
What is its key benefit?
Who or what is the competition?
What is the product’s unique differentiator?
Shamelessly stolen from Gamestorming - http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=125
Successful elevator pitches often start with a mad-lib-like template:
For (customer) who has
(customer need),
(product name) is a (market
category) that (one key
benefit).
Unlike (competition), the
product (unique
differentiator).
Our brand statement:
Credera is a management and technology consulting firm committed to your success.
Our clients hire us to own their toughest problems and retain us because we fulfill our promises.
Purpose:Increase the efficiency of managing assets for our remarkablein-store experience"
Audience: Personas
Audience: Field Study
Mobile Usability Testing & Observation is tough, but it can be done.
Do it yourself mobile usability testing at IA Summit 2011 By Belen Barros Pena http://www.slideshare.net/beleniq/diy-mobile-usability-testing-ia-summit-2011
How specialized are your audiences? What are you doing to research their needs?
Content: Specialization is Good
Daily Tracker vs. Weightbot
Design: Mood Board for Existing Brands
Current Site
Pull the logos and major colors
Pull other common elements like fonts, bu;ons, etc.
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Design: Comps
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Time for group exercise!
Every journey starts with a single step.
What single, simple action will start your project moving up the usability hierarchy?
Time for group exercise!
The UX Stack is a useful framework to organize the success criteria for your next project.
Technology
Form
Content
Audience
Purpose Who do we need to achieve the goal?
What content and features are the audience expec7ng?
What logical and emo7onal design influence the experience?
How is the message physically presented?
What are we trying to achieve?
Questions?
Thanks! Think of more questions later?
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http://blog.credera.com/topic/management-consulting/the-uxd-stack/
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