5. “We’re trying to encourage people
to think beyond the old product,
but the effort is big; there’s risks.”
(UI architect)
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"
“New things get a lot more
input from UX.” "
(Senior developer)"
"
“We make the smaller decisions
around the balance between
UX and dev.”
(Business analyst)
15. • Sent to Designers, Developers, BA’s,
Testers, QA’s, PM’s
• Total of 40-50 people
• Goal of survey was to determine
engagement, awareness, and usefulness of
the current iteration of Feelix for teams at
MYOB
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16. What type of content would help you do your job better?
11%
18%
38%
33%
Responsive UI Kit
Approved Patterns
3rd Party Content
Suggest a New Pattern
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17. “Just not enough in there right now. If Feelix had some tangible
content in there it would have given us clearer focus and
direction on the UI.”
Product Manager July 2014
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18. Reactionary
Products have already
been built
"
Lots of work to unify.
Would require a total
redesign
Visionary
New products = blank
canvas
"
Very rare but gives us
an awesome
opportunity to control
things
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19. Best 3-things we’ve done
• Bootstrap 3 & Angular UI
• Placing emphasis on Conversation &
Collaboration between teams
• Bi-weekly UX Show & Tell sessions
between “Visionary” and “Reactionary”
teams
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“Consistency can only be
achieved with everyone’s
involvement towards a
common goal.”!
Jon Hicks
20. Lunch Time Sessions
• Taking time to understand what BAs,
QAs & Devs need from UX
• Helping them understand the benefits
of UX
• Creating a regular time for them to
suggest things
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22. The Future for Feelix
• Embedded in everything we do
• Go Public. Raising awareness to our 3rd
party developer community to maintain
consistency between their applications &
ours
• Become recognised as the go to place
for Accounting workflow conventions
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23. 1. Spend time understanding requirements; don’t get into content
creation too early
2. Facilitate content custodianship; socialise, and get buy-in
3. Re-evaluate based on engagement and usefulness!
4. Primary focus more on UI-Kit, and Approved Business Patterns
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24. It’s not that hard!!
"
Keep it simple
“You can’t steer a
parked car.”!
Sean McCabe
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