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- 1. UX for Beginners:Step By Step Process Anthony Overkamp | Creative Director @ Engage
- 3. Anthony Overkamp |Creative Director [email protected] www.engagesoftware.com
- 4. Agenda 1. What isUX 2. Getting Started 3. Methods 4. Resources
- 5. Walk away knowing... ●UX isn't magic ● Getting started is hard, but doable ● Educating and backing up your work is to be expected ● Everyone is always learning ● There isn't a concrete right or wrong way
- 6. Team of One ●UX is only part of your role ● Lone visual designer ● Designer/developer/admin ● Faced with “selling” UX to your team
- 7. UX is hardto talk about. User Experience describes both practice and results
- 8. “User Experience isthe overall effect created by the interaction and perceptions that someone has with your product or service”. Leah Buley, The User Experience Team of One
- 9. Remember Users arepeople.
- 10. Think of wordslike: ● Love ● Hate ● Friendly ● Easy to use ● Pain in the butt
- 11. Example: UX in yourdaily workflow or routines
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- 13. Starter Steps ● Findopportunity – what needs fixed? ● Establish a point of view ● Get to know your users ● Design!
- 14. Opportunity It’s often prettyeasy to find what needs improvement – but when not obvious, look for places that could be better than good, but great!
- 15. Point of View ●Look for easy-wins – things that everyone agrees needs improvements ● Create an action plan – how can we improve this? ● Do some discovery
- 16. Know Your Users ●Put yourself in the user's shoes ● Ask questions ● Work on what you know, and don’t know ● Debunk myths and assumptions
- 17. Start Designing! ● Sketchyour ideas ● Enlist help ● Research and learn from success stories ● Question things
- 18. Building Support ● Invitepeople in ● Make things together ● Truly listen ● Know when it’s good enough
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- 20. A few typeswe’ll discuss ● UX Questionnaire ● UX Project Plan ● Workshop
- 21. UX Questionnaire The goalis to ask questions about a product or services goals, expectations, and needs. Deceptively simple, and easy to implement.
- 22. Tips & Tricks ●Keep it simple ● Spend about 1-2 hrs making questionnaire ● Often answers become your project scope ● Answers help measure design decisions
- 23. UX Project orFeature Plan ● Understand goals ● Brainstorm ideas/solutions ● Estimate Time ● Assign Milestones ● Document & Share
- 24. Tips & Tricks ●Don’t be afraid to scope and re-scope ● The first pass usually takes longer ● Don’t shortchange complexity ● Use checklists ● Make plan visible or easy to access
- 25. UX Workshop ● Plansome time to work as a group (at least 2hrs) ● Have clear goals ○ Identify issues ○ Prioritize the UX part of pain points ○ Create Next Steps ● Discuss strengths/wins ● Prioritize ● Discuss
- 26. Tips & Tricks ●Document – record what you learn ● Follow up – keep the conversation going ● Don’t forget to include user research ● Aim to work together in person ● Have fun!
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- 28. The User ExperienceTeam of One A Research and Design Survival Guide By Leah Buley http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-user-experience-team-of-one/
- 29. Explore what’s outthere ● Plenty of books, podcasts, publications ● A List Apart: www.alistapart.com/ ● Smashing Magazine: www.smashingmagazine.com/ ● UX Booth: www.uxbooth.com/ ● UX Matters: www.uxmatters.com/ ● Boxes and Arrows: www.boxesandarrows.com/
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