Creating a killer product: where value meets user experience and product design
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Morgan McKeagney discusses essential strategies for creating successful products, emphasizing the importance of solving a clear customer problem and maintaining a relentless focus on user experience. He advocates for a customer-centric approach, urging product creators to understand their audience deeply and deliver delightful experiences. The document also highlights the iterative process of prototyping and the role of passion and team dynamics in product success.
Creating a killer product: where value meets user experience and product design
- 1. Morgan McKeagney Co-founder & CEO FRAMLABS Creating a killer product Presented @ BOI Gears 48, Dublin, 27/05/16
- 2. Meet Eoghan & Des
- 3. Intercom | Problem & Value Problem Solution Value Proposition
- 4. Top Startup Tip | Des’s Advice “Maintain a relentless focus on solving a clear problem that … you understand very well, and you know exists for a lot of people who you can reach, and who are actively attempting to solve it today.” Des Traynor, Co-founder Intercom http://bit.ly/1ORuwn3 “Ask Me Anything: Interview with Des Traynor”, Inside Intercom
- 5. Entrepreneur = Value Creator VALUE?Pain Gain
- 6. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Enduring business models serve an enduring human need.
- 7. Finding a bigger, better mountain Current Best Solution Your New Solution
- 8. 4 Steps to Product Nirvana Find A Problem Worth Solving Be Relentlessly Customer-Focused Create Brilliant Experiences 1 2 3 Execute Brilliantly: Rinse & Repeat4
- 9. Find a problem worth solving? ? ? ?
- 10. Reframing an existing human need
- 11. The Holy Trinity | Primacy of User Experience “Focus on the user and all else will follow” “I am congenitally customer focused” “Design is how it works”
- 12. Be Relentlessly Customer-Focused “Make my life easier & better. Understand me. Surprise me.”
- 13. Create Experiences, Not Products Lovable Usable Functional Experiences Product Inspired by: Stephen P. Anderson “Hooked on a Feeling”, Presented @ ISA 15 http://bit.ly/1P3vTV1
- 14. Creating Lovable: A simple framework Design 2 Insight 1 Execution 3
- 15. Look familiar? Lean Startup Build Measure Learn
- 16. Execute Brilliantly: Elegant, delightful experiences. “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” user experience Peter Drucker, Business Guru
- 17. It all starts with insight… “There's no magic secret...focus on people and their problems.” Scott Berkun http://bit.ly/1WpCsUp “Debunking the Myths of Innovation”, UIE
- 18. Building Insight | Toolbox
- 19. Asking the right questions, listening Source: “The Mom Test”, by Rob Fitzpatrick, referenced in “Seven Lessons I learned from the failure of my first start-up” https://medium.com/@michalbohanes/seven-lessons-i-learned-from-the-failure-of-my-first-startup-dinnr-c166d1cfb8b8
- 20. Personas | Building a picture
- 21. Design | Sketching & Wireframing LogoutPrivacy | Terms | Help Available balance €356.26 as of 12:32 31st July 2011 Make a Payment 26/5/2011 Payment of €35 to John Smith Welcome Oliver A.Baker (Initech) Scan & PayPay Receipts/ Cards & Accounts refresh: Transaction History Connections Add / Withdraw Funds Settings LogoutPrivacy | Terms | Help Welcome Oliver A.Baker (Initech) Home Pay Arnotts Dublin the sum of €35.00 Line Item One €10 Line Item Two € 25 Teller: Mary McDermott Transaction ID: 1234567890 Date: 21st Feb 2001 Funding Source: My Wallet Pay Cancel LogoutPrivacy | Terms | Help Welcome Oliver A.Baker (Initech) Home Visa Mastercard Solo Card Delta Air Miles Card Brown Thomas Gift Card Fuel Card Wallet
- 22. Design: Leverage existing patterns Source: Zurb University: Library http://zurb.com/university/library
- 23. Sweating the little details
- 24. Great content is great design
- 25. Start with a Cupcake “The quicker you can get feedback on what you’re thinking the better your idea will be. Usage is oxygen for ideas.” Des Traynor Source: “Start with a Cupcake”, Inside Intercom http://bit.ly/1P3ySgh
- 26. Prototyping | Building to Think
- 27. PRÖVA | Two weeks to testable demo Web Tablet Phone
- 28. Prototype to sell: MoneySquared TBan
- 29. Beyond design & user experience “Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy- to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.” Joel Spolsky, CEO Fogcreek Software & Inventor of Trello
- 30. Secret Sauce: Team & Passion “Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.” Obligatory Steve Jobs Quote TM
- 31. Be Brave | Dare to Delight Source: “The First Ever Email, the First Tweet, and 10 Other Famous Internet Firsts”, Business Insider, April 2013 http://yhoo.it/1htdgoC
- 32. Final revolutionary thought “Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. If the thing is useless, so is the labour contained in it.” Das Kapital, Vol. I, end of Section 1, Chapter 1 Karl Marx, Philosopher & Revolutionary
- 33. THANKS FOR LISTENING! Morgan McKeagney FRAMLABS CEO, co-founder email•[email protected] phone•+353 87 135 5197 twitter•morganmck skype•morganmckeagney