UX != UI

The term ‘User Experience’ has been associated with User Interface for too long. An experience isn’t limited to a navigating or using a particular product. It transcends the computer screen or mobile device, and has lasting impacts on our lives. What do these impacts mean? How can they be managed? These are questions that User Experience Designers try to answer.

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1. UX != UI Brad Nunnally User Experience Designer
2. Goals What’s the UI mean ... What UX isn’t... What UX is... Generally how to do it...
3. Street Cred Computer Science Grad
4. First UX Job Consultant for 21/2 Years
5. Why I’m a UXD? I love people I love technology I love a challenge
6. What is the UI all about? No, I won’t be showing you any icebergs
7. Pretty Flat Stuff on the surface of things only mean so much.
8. Temporary Used only when needed, and forgotten just as easily.
9. Graphical You can only put so much lipstick on a pig.
10. A Treasure Map Should convey the steps necessary to take to accomplish a task
11. Un-Defining The Damn Thing What User Experience Isn’t...
12. About Design An experience transcends an interface, service, or product (Mac vs PC)
13. Usability Tests It’s not about what works or not
14. A Phase Takes more than few best practices to achieve a good experience
15. The Interface Independent of current level of technology
16. About the User Sums up your brand and message
17. Done Alone Never drink alone, never design alone
18. An Experience Impossible to create something as intangible as an experience
19. Defining The Damn Thing User Experience Is ...
20. A Lot of Hats UXD, IA, IxD, VD, BA, UID, etc. So many hats, not enough heads
21. Relationships People aren’t users or customers, but partners in an overall relationship
22. It’s Moral Helping people do their thing painlessly is never a bad thing
23. Human Problems Most of this problems are timeless, others are being created everyday
24. Sucking Less Failure is part of the game, just learn from your failures
25. The Next Level Provides the freedom to innovate without alienating
26. For an Experience Set the stage and see how the play gets acted out
27. Creating a Good User Experience A General Process
28. Problem Space All good things start with some good ole research
29. Understanding Define the pieces to the puzzle you are trying to solve
30. Proper Solution Find the needle in the haystack
31. Validate Determine how much you sucked this time around
32. Maintenance Got to keep the machine rolling.
33. Takes Everyone Goes beyond the project team and department.
34. Wrapping Up Some take aways
35. Young Profession You’re our older sibling, and it is time for us to get along
36. Growing Up Siblings can only bicker for so long
37. Human Condition User Experience can’t improve it without your help
38. Dive Deeper http://bit.ly/17D7mM – Definition of User Experience by Luke Wroblewski http://bit.ly/17lFT - 10 Most Common Misconceptions about User Experience Design by Whitney Hess http://bit.ly/WMb2 - A Definition of User Experience by Eric Reiss http://bit.ly/Jk5hE - Pioneering a User Experience Process http://bit.ly/2qhmwj - User Experience Diagrams by Luke Wroblewski http://bit.ly/CMIR3 - The iPhone is not easy to use: a new direction for UX Design by Fred Beecher http://bit.ly/vOwxX - Top 10 UX Myths by Keith Lang
39. Resources - Pictures http://bit.ly/JuzSO http://bit.ly/YTEb2 http://bit.ly/cqmZ1 http://bit.ly/2aO7N http://bit.ly/PcsSs http://bit.ly/4VgWc http://bit.ly/1gCzzK http://bit.ly/Z6eAt http://bit.ly/kYvES http://bit.ly/hYSIu http://bit.ly/hKCnb http://bit.ly/25ZYxz http://bit.ly/mFN6a http://bit.ly/JgWdH http://bit.ly/7br8b http://bit.ly/5tKqI http://bit.ly/JPEbd http://bit.ly/ij73V http://bit.ly/1gxE0C http://bit.ly/12BCoE http://bit.ly/1r83Nt http://bit.ly/e6rkN http://bit.ly/i3NqI http://bit.ly/wOtJD http://bit.ly/CQxTI http://bit.ly/HmoZh http://bit.ly/hcqcP http://bit.ly/vUL5r http://bit.ly/1TErM http://bit.ly/2qgCXf http://bit.ly/1810BT http://bit.ly/3SxZPh
41. Thanks Brad Nunnally bnunnally@gmail.com http://bradsrambling.com/blog Follow me! @bnunnally