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Cheat Your Way With UX (Web2Day edition)

Cheat Your Way With UX (Web2Day edition)

A talk I gave at Web2Day, Nantes on using UX tools to help generate better ideas for each product iteration, especially in the case of innovative digital product development.

Steph Troeth

May 31, 2012
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    fun! adventurous! exotic! useful serious reliable the vehicle
  2. The great mistake is leaping from facts to solutions, skipping

    over the play and exploration at the heart of finding new ideas. — Scott Berkun, “The Myths of Innovation”
  3. business user What problem are we solving? What impact do

    we want to have? How do we measure success?
  4. brand What are the business constraints, organisational visions & goals

    we need to take into account? business Tool: Stakeholder interviews (or team conversations)
  5. Tool: The SWOT/SPOT Strengths Problems or Weaknesses Threats Opportunities Internal

    factors External factors match convert convert potential objectives!
  6. business model canvas What are the most important costs inherent

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  7. What are our core values? Who do we want to

    be when we grow up? Who are we, and who are we not? brand
  8. What are our core values? Who do we want to

    be when we grow up? Who are we, and who are we not? Tool: Rational vs Emotional Grid brand
  9. rational emotional fun psychic (knows exactly what I was looking

    for) motivating entertaining magical encouraging surprising allow me to influence — have an impact inspire effective affective (people's choice) facilitate discussion to play missions indication of progress Hat tip: David Rollert, whose original method I adapted
  10. Akoha is a fun way to spice up your life.

    logo Already a member? Sign in. Earn rewards for completing “missions” — exciting and simple activities that turn the ordinary into something extraordinary! • Get access to hundreds of real-world missions •Capture those experiences and share them • Earn rewards for trying out new things! Sign up now Signing up is free and takes less than 2 minutes. What’s this all about? ...
  11. Akoha is a fun way to spice up your life.

    logo Already a member? Sign in. Earn rewards for completing “missions” — exciting and simple activities that turn the ordinary into something extraordinary! • Get access to hundreds of real-world missions •Capture those experiences and share them • Earn rewards for trying out new things! Sign up now Signing up is free and takes less than 2 minutes. What’s this all about? ... rational!
  12. rational emotional fun psychic (knows exactly what I was looking

    for) motivating entertaining magical encouraging surprising allow me to influence — have an impact inspire effective affective (people's choice) facilitate discussion to play missions indication of progress
  13. Bullet points = geek factor = rational quality = think

    of all the things we can do with it!
  14. What are our competitors doing? How are we different to

    them? Tool: Competitive analysis brand, business model, (design) strategy, user base, feature sets brand business
  15. “Build it and they will come.” Who are they? How

    do they find out about you? Why will they come? Why do they need what you’re building? Why would they choose you over a competitor? user brand really?!
  16. “Build it and they will come.” Who are they? How

    do they find out about you? Why will they come? Why do they need what you’re building? Why would they choose you over a competitor? user brand Tool: User matrices Hat tip: David Rollert, whose original method I adapted really?!
  17. 2. Choose two key axes. 3. Identify questions. ✦ What

    do they need? ✦ What do they want? ✦ What can they do?
  18. find new routes share local insight create most popular route

    set a record find new routes set a record stalk other runners find new routes set a record visitor local explore compete What can they do? (acquainted)
  19. Tool: User modelling with user matrices Uncover your underlying assumptions

    Uncover assumptions on behaviour, needs and motivation Establish hypotheses Validate with research, prototypes or MVPs Find out what you know and what you don’t know
  20. Tool: Design principles (for product or page) Allows people to

    “peel the onion” in whatever way is useful for them. They can start at the “core” or the peel and never get lost. They find what they are looking for and are continually seeing more interesting and engaging content. Communicate passion for good food. Inspire people to eat and cook and bring them and the producers closer together. Feel seasonal and vibrant, like touring the store. Stimulate senses through impactful images and text in a way that’s clean and uncluttered. Show people in the images, not just product.
  21. Common user research methods open-ended close-ended “listening labs” “contextual enquiry”

    interviews scenario testing remote testing tools surveys focus groups card sorting heuristic evaluation personas A/B testing analytics
  22. Common user research methods open-ended close-ended “listening labs” “contextual enquiry”

    interviews scenario testing remote testing tools surveys focus groups card sorting exploring the problem space improve the solution heuristic evaluation personas A/B testing analytics
  23. Stakeholder interviews user brand business Rational/Emotional grid Competitive analysis User

    matrices Design principles unique SWOT/SPOT Business model canvas
  24. Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what

    is essentially your own. — Bruce Lee
  25. Thank you! (Yes, these slides will be online.) My eternal

    gratitude to great shoulders I stand upon: ‘Femi T Adesina, Chris Baum, David Rollert, Johanna Kollmann, Olivier Thereaux Stephanie Troeth @sniffles http://stephanietroeth.com/ http://about.me/stephtroeth funny cat photo “It’s not that I’m smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein