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@johnjpeebles
How to Build the Perfect
Product Your Users Want
But Can’t Describe
@johnjpeebles
Design
Permeates Everything
Is More than Design
Is Everyone’s Responsibility
@johnjpeebles
Building Great
Products is
HARD
@johnjpeebles
2 Kinds of Hard
Exercise is Hard
Playing the Violin is Hard
@johnjpeebles
Why Do Great
Products Matter?
Can be extremely disruptive
Make lives better
@johnjpeebles
About Me
John Peebles
CEO of Administrate
www.GetAdministrate.com
@johnjpeebles
john@peebs.org
@johnjpeebles
I don’t have all the
answers.
I have made
plenty of mistakes!
@johnjpeebles
Building a
Product is
Solving a
Problem
@johnjpeebles
Problem Solvers
• Earn more money
• Are key to their team’s success
• Are the best developers
/designers / managers / etc.
• Can be the difference between
success and failure
@johnjpeebles
This is Your
Moment of
Demotivation
Problem solvers are
very, very, rare.
@johnjpeebles
This is Your
Moment of
Motivation
You can do this!
@johnjpeebles
Building a product
should not be user
driven
@johnjpeebles
“It's really hard to design products by focus
groups. A lot of times, people don't know
what they want until you show it to them."
— Steve Jobs
“If I had asked people what they wanted,
they would have said faster horses."
–Henry Ford
@johnjpeebles
Building a product
should be:
Workflow Driven
Job Driven
Results Driven
@johnjpeebles
The Core
Mechanic
Know, Define, Solve
@johnjpeebles
Know
• Develop your Personas
• Observe the Job
• Work the Job
• Visualise the Job
• Learn the entire process
• Understand motivations and incentives
@johnjpeebles
Define
Don’t ―Solve a Solution‖
Discover the Problem!
@johnjpeebles
Which do You
Go to First?
Pharmacist or the Doctor?
@johnjpeebles
Techniques of
Problem Discovery
• Reject the Premise of the Question
• Use the 5 Whys?
• Take nothing as ―given‖
• Don’t listen to users, watch users!
@johnjpeebles
Examples
• ―Add all the currencies!‖
• ―I need another report!‖
• ―Can you add X to Y?‖
@johnjpeebles
@johnjpeebles
WARNING
• This requires people skills!
• Don’t belittle of condescend!
• Approach with an attitude of grace
• Approach with an attitude of humility
“I’m sorry but I’d love to understand a little
bit better…”
@johnjpeebles
“We didn’t TRY to make it awful…”
@johnjpeebles
Propose the Solution
• Run through your personas
• Visualize the workflow
• ―Use‖ the ―solution‖ yourself
• Get feedback
@johnjpeebles
@johnjpeebles
#ProTip
Consistency
is Key
@johnjpeebles
#ProTip
Innovation
Usually Requires
Destruction
@johnjpeebles
#ProTip
Develop Lateral
Thinking Using
Analogies
@johnjpeebles
#ProTip
If you get stuck,
start proposing
stupid solutions
@johnjpeebles
#ProTip
People are always
better at critiquing
than creating.
@johnjpeebles
#ProTip
Practice Solving
Problems
@johnjpeebles
Solving a Problem is a
Process
• Don’t lose sight of the goal
• Don’t fixate on features!
• Continue to Improve
@johnjpeebles
Please share this!
John Peebles
CEO of Administrate
www.GetAdministrate.com
@johnjpeebles
john@peebs.org

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