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User Experience beyond software design

User Experience beyond software design

Future Sync 2017

Ben Holliday

June 10, 2017
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    Future Sync 2017
    User Experience
    beyond software design

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    DESIGN IS
    A GOOD IDEA

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    Building a design community
    benholliday.com/building-a-design-community

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    Design team specialising in
    service design, user research,
    interaction design, content
    design and front end
    development

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    Service design not
    software design

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    …understanding user needs as
    part of the full end-to-end service
    experienced by an end-user. 

    This means working across
    multiple channels, not excluding
    administrative or ‘back end’
    systems and processes

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    Designing services
    means that we’re
    interested in everything
    that happens

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    Services are a familiar
    part of our lives, and are
    often less digital than
    we’ve come to expect

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    An early example of a messaging service

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    Pre-internet era services intertwined with IT infrastructure

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    A P R I L

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    Travel. Train to work

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    Tickets for travel

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    Making a payment. Contactless

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    1-click ordering

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    Music. Synced to phone

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    Directions. Using geolocation

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    Travel. Office to hotel

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    Something to eat. Delivered to hotel in 30 minutes

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    Staying in touch. Picture messaging (MMS)

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    Entertainment. Television anywhere with internet access

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    Managing money and payments

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    Travel
    Accommodation
    Food
    Entertainment
    Communication
    Money

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    We can think very deliberately
    about the design of anything
    we’re prepared to get close
    enough to, looking at the detail of
    every interaction as a result or
    intention of that service

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    The expectations we
    have for the services we
    use every day have
    changed

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    To a user, a service is
    simple. It’s something 

    that helps them to do
    something
    designnotes.blog.gov.uk/good-services-are-verbs

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    An outcome is what
    happens as the result of
    your service

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    Most services provided
    by large organisations
    were made before the
    internet even existed

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    Making things digital 

    ≠ making digital things

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    Making things digital is
    employing the culture,
    mindset, practices, processes,
    skills and technologies of the
    internet era

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    Digital is something you are,
    not something you do
    http://bit.ly/digital-org

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    Things of the internet are:
    Accessible
    Responsive
    Open
    Transparent
    Faster
    Automated
    Usable
    Adaptable
    Anywhere and anytime
    Trusted
    Moving towards instantaneous
    Efficient

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    GOV.UK
    Services and information
    Simpler, clearer, faster

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    Westpac. Get a Credit Card:
    5 days 5 minutes

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    Apple. Setting new expectations for a retail experience

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    Amazon physical stores. Using online sales and review data

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    DESIGN IS
    A GOOD IDEA

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    Start by
    understanding
    user needs

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    The problem is we don’t
    always focus on user needs

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    How close are you to 

    user experience?

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    The view from 30,000 feet

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    The street view

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    Everything starts 

    with a people problem,
    not a technology or
    software problem

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    DWP services that support:
    Finding work
    Managing a health condition
    Caring for someone
    Retirement

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    User research:
    What’s it really like to be living
    through this situation?
    What are people thinking, 

    feeling, and doing in response to
    what’s happening in their lives?

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    Make sure things
    are accessible
    and usable

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    Software is a small part
    of a much bigger picture.
    But it doesn’t make it
    any less important

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    Bad example: UK ePrescribing system

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    Bad example: UK ePrescribing system

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    Work on solving
    real problems

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    Bad example: A playground app for the playground
    http://bit.ly/2sm6TSB

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    Starting with user needs
    means understanding
    the real problems that
    people have in their lives

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    Adjust the focus

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    Any creative process
    needs clarity and focus

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    If we’re not
    communicating well with
    each other, it’s unlikely
    we’re communicating
    well with people using
    our services
    Melanie Cannon

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    Start with ‘why’.
    Everything we work on
    gets started for a
    reason.
    Then move on to ‘who’,
    ‘what’ and ‘how’

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    Holding on with both hands
    benholliday.com/the-needs-of-government

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    User Experience beyond software design:
    1. Recognise changing expectations
    2. Service design is an opportunity
    3. Get closer to the problem (user needs)
    4. Make sure you get the basics right
    5. Adjust the focus
    6. Keep going

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    Thank you
    digital.dwp.gov.uk/careers

    @DWPDigital
    benholliday.com

    @benholliday

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