Building better products requires up-front investment in product planning and strategy. This talk will cover basic User Experience tools and techniques for breaking down a project, planning the architecture, organizing development, and communicating those ideas to colleagues and technical partners. We will cover creative ways to generate ideas and collaborate with your stakeholders. We’ll also introduce you to conceptual tools that will help solve problems visually as well as design activities including sketching and wireframing.

1. UX Basics
Build Better Products
@pixotech
@jason_berg
@CateKompare

2. Hi!

3. UX?
Hi!

4. Hi!

5. Hi!
Research Analyze Design

6. Building the MVP
In product development, the MVP is
the product with the highest return
on investment versus risk. A
minimum viable product has just
those core features that allow the
product to be deployed, and no
more.
Hi!

7. Hi!

8. Research

9. User Research
Research

10. Research

11. Research

12. Competitive
Review
Research

13. 10 Heuristics for User
Interface Design
1. Be Transparent
2. Create tools for people —
not machines
3. Empower people
4. Be consistent
5. Prevent errors
6. Make it recognizable
7. Help at their level
8. Design for simplicity
9. Make error recovery easy
10. Provide documentation

14. Research

15. Research

16. Interface
Inventory
Research

17. Research

18. Research

19. Analyze

20. Flow Diagrams
Analyze

21. Analyze

22. Analyze

23. Personas
Analyze

24. Analyze

25. Personas
Analyze

26. User Stories
Analyze

27. “As a [insert role],
I want to [insert task],
so that I [insert driving
force].”
Analyze

28. “As a presenter at Research
Park, I want to give an
informative talk, so that I don’t
totally humiliate myself.”
Analyze

29. Analyze

30. Workshops
Analyze

31. Personas
Analyze

32. Analyze

33. Analyze

34. Design

35. Sketching
Design

36. Design

37. Design

38. Design

39. Wireframe
Design

40. Design

41. Design

42. 10 Heuristics for User
Interface Design
1. Be Transparent!
2. Create tools for people —
not machines!
3. Empower people!
4. Be consistent !
5. Prevent errors
6. Make it recognizable!
7. Help at their level!
8. Design for simplicity!
9. Make error recovery easy!
10. Provide documentation

43. Design

44. Style Guides
Design

45. Design

46. Usability
Testing
Design

47. Design

48. Design

49. Design

50. So, what’s
next?
Next steps

51. Join some mailing lists, follow
some UX-ers on twitter, and
find a community group
Next steps

52. Read:
UX Team of One
Just Enough Research
Lean UX
Next steps

53. Just start
talking about it.
Next steps

54. Thanks!
@pixotech
@jason_berg
@CateKompare