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Product Camp - Silicon Valley - 2011 - "User Centered Design: How to please users and get the CEO off your back"
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- 1. User Centered Design: How to please users and get the CEO off your back Dan ArraSan Jose, CA 650-218-4444 darra@macadamian.com
- 2. “Selective Attention Test”, by Daniel Simons 2 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 3. Agenda Demystify User Centered Design (UCD) Support your choices with data Differentiate your product 3 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 4. Demystify UCD Users Who are they? What do they care about? How do they actually interact with your product? How would they interact with a new version/feature? Centered on value to actual users Product Strategy Workshop Key business objectives User requirements Design to illustrate value to users Design, test, incorporate feedback Rinse and repeat 4 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 5. Demystify UCD Users Personas – context, context, context Centered on value to actual users Usage Scenarios Your business objectives… their value Still gotta have documented requirements Design to illustrate value to users Wireframes, models, mockups Visual concepts 5 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 6. Demystify UCD 6 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 7. Demystify UCD 7 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 8. Support your choices with data (and process) Gain agreement thru metrics Simplify your decisions Justify your choices 8 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 9. Gain agreement thru metrics Define objective measurable targets Express from the customer’s/user’s perspective Both qualitative AND quantitative are good 9 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 10. Simplify your decisions With success metrics in hand… Obtained from actual users… You have confidence about what to include… And what to remove 10 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 11. Justify your choices (aka defend yourself) Charts, data – “During our first round of testing… time on task was x seconds” # of errors was reduced by y% Narratives – “We watched the users actually smile and relax when then completed this task” Storyboards – “As you can see from this diagram, the new path to the reservation screen is…” 11 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 12. Gain agreement thru metrics Organizational Confidence Success is often a matter of confidence If Sales believes in the product (based on metrics), they will do a better job selling it. If Management trusts you’vemade the right decisions, you’ll get the resources you need If Support understands the training issues, they’ll be more effective 12 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 13. Differentiate your product 13 Features are important IF they are valuable to users Confidential 4/2/2011
- 14. Identify Goals & Tasks Users don’t approach with a feature in mind – think goals and tasks More isn’t always better. More often leads to: Clutter Bloat Complicated 14 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 15. Differentiate based on those goals & tasks Feature war Bad User Experience Study real behavior – needs, goals, workflow, workplace processes through: Direct observation of users Feedback from users Organize tasks, sub-tasks by: Order of importance Frequency performed Map relationships & dependencies between tasks: Flowcharts Mapping diagrams 15 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 16. Information architecture & task relationships diagrams 16 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 17. Differentiate your product and sell more of it If it looks good, you will get more interest It’s a process Good design can be measured Removes opinion and conjecture Requires expertise to test (“Blink”, by Malcolm Gladwell – puppies, kitties and Aeron Chair) 17 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 18. Who is Macadamian? Software Products Consultancy When the user experience is key Full scope of software development life cycle UX Design & User Research Software Engineering QA Testing Increasing customer adoption 14 Year Track Record, over 150 staff Hybrid Onshore/Offshore - Ottawa(HQ), Romania, Armenia Experience across multiple markets and products Wide range of skills and processes: UX design + Software Engineering + Test/QA Desktop (Win, Mac OS) Mobile (iPhone/iPad, Blackberry, Android, WP7) SaaS (.NET, LAMP, J2EE, RIA, Flash/Flex) Strobe/Sproutcore Partner 18 Confidential 4/2/2011
- 19. What have we done… lately? New Product Development, Extensions, Re-designs Mobile client development – iPad, iPhone, Android phone & tablet Web development – Web 2.0 apps with mobile “companion” products Desktop Clients – Windows and Mac User Experience Design & Usability Testing Product Families – Desktop, Web, Mobile Clients User Research including Usability “walk-throughs” Usability Testing Ethnographic research or “job shadowing” Examples Cisco – FlipShare Mobile, Umi home telepresence Juniper – Re-design of existing app to include web, mobile, desktop BitTorrent – Macintosh client & Android Tablet (both design & build) Varian Medical – Electronic Medical Record for iPad (proto-type) 19 Confidential 1/18/2011
- 20. Our sweet spot… End-to-end: from napkin sketch to release (and anywhere along your software development life cycle) Creativity: innovating in design and technology User Research: Validate user needs, usability, market, etc. Uncharted territory: dealing with technical uncertainty & potential for change Intense deadlines – need for rapid response times Experience required – there’s no time for ramp-up 20 Confidential 1/18/2011
Notas del editor
- Who works primarily with software products? Hardware? Mix? Enterprise & business products? Consumer products?(after viewing video) – The analogy I had in mind when selecting this video was “you, as the product manager, are the person counting passes. You are concentrating intently on your task of counting passes. As your CEO interrupts you to say, “we don’t need an Android app yet” and the VP of Sales says “customer xyz insists we deliver this feature”, you continue to do your job and count passes. Unfortunately, you may miss something important if you don’t have a thorough process. You may miss the gorilla in the room..This session is basically about defending yourself against these types of distractions. We’ll use the User Centered Design process with an emphasis on user research and usability testing as our context for helping you to prioritize features, keep your designed focused on user value, and arming you with the tools to respond to strong opinions that may impact your ability to deliver what your users actually need… what you need to put into your product for it (and you) to be successful.
- Please keep in mind that the more informed you sound when describing your product, the less resistance you will have, the more control you will have in designing your product, the more resources you will have to build your product. Information gives you confidence and confidence is reassuring to management. The table above is from Jarm M. Spool’s book. It shows the path products take from early stage to maturity. This is a good reference tool to use as you are “pestered” to add features ad-hoc. Explain that yes, features are important, but based on qualified research… this is where we are headed. We need to focus on the UI or UX now. Feature wars are a fools errand – Experience and productivity is the next step in improving our product. Making the UI and navigation transparent is the ultimate goal… not comparing ourselves to product xyz.