1. USER EXPERIENCE FLIGHT CHECK
WordCamp Chicago

2. Launch Prep
UX COUNTDOWN

3. Grant Hutchinson (splorp@flickr)
Site As Software

4. ✓ Release worthy
✓ Respect users - even if it’s just you & your cat
✓ Fixes take time & money
✓ Build with upgrades, new features in mind
✓ Cut the right corners - aka ad hoc QA

5. Grant Hutchinson (splorp@flickr)
Works As Expected

6. ✓ Blog, Website, Both, Who Cares?
✓ Snozberries taste like Snozberries
✓ Be Yourself, Be Creative, Be Careful
✓ Experience Extends to Content Creators
✓ URLs Are Your Currency
✓ Tame Dynamic Plugins

7. Grant Hutchinson (splorp@flickr)
Know Your Users

8. ✓ Tailor content and experience to your users
✓ Your users may include machines
✓ Respect, Flexibility & Control
✓ Mobility - Is your content & culture mobile?
✓ Analytics are your friend

9. MASTER CHECKLIST

10. MASTER CHECKLIST
Blog Single Page
✓ Sharing tools ✓ Comment Gravatars
✓ Permalink Structure ✓ Links to Comment Author
✓ Permalinked Elements ✓ Author Comment Coloring
✓ Pagination / Next & Prev ✓ Pagination
✓ Number of posts ✓ Threading
✓ Featured Posts ✓ Discussion Beyond Blog
✓ Alt text

11. MASTER CHECKLIST
Connections Analytics
✓ URL services ✓ Google Analytics
✓ Subscribe via email ✓ Chartbeat
✓ Facebook like ✓ Click Tracking
✓ SEO Tools ✓ 3rd Party Stats
✓ Twitter ✓ Flash video, JWPLayer, etc
✓ Trackbacks

12. MASTER CHECKLIST
Fallbacks Worst Case Scenario
✓ Search box ✓ Image sizes breaking layout
✓ Search results ✓ Garbage code in posts
✓ Smart 404 ✓ Empty sections
Random ✓ Overloaded sections
✓ Author links
✓ Performance
✓ Favicon

13. MASTER CHECKLIST
Feeds & Things
✓ Full Posts
✓ Permalinks
✓ Hitting the Yahoo! Pipe(s)
✓ Feedburner

14. WPHAPPYHOUR.ORG
Keep the conversations going!
happyhour@voceconnect.com

15. THANKS!
@jharr
jeremy@voceconnect.com