What is this UX thing?
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The document provides an overview of key concepts in user experience (UX) design including user research, information architecture, content strategy, interaction design, and UX. It discusses how UX aims to create a "good" user experience by first understanding user needs through research and then designing interfaces and content to meet goals in a way that can be measured. The document instructs attendees to break into teams, select a product, and map its user funnel by identifying facts, questions, and opportunities to improve the user experience.
What is this UX thing?
- 1. What is this UX thing? Presented by @Abby_the_ia
- 3. Agenda for Monday Answer these questions: • What is user research? • What is information architecture (IA)? • What is content strategy? • What is interaction design (IXD)? • What is user experience (UX)? • What does “good” mean in this world? • What does the process look like to get to good? Assign some homework :)
- 4. Agenda for tuesday Critique 0f homework Q + A about UX, IA, Careers etc
- 5. Information Architecture • Facilitates understanding • Orders meaning • Establishes truth • Creates clarity • Makes pictures of consensus 5
- 6. Content Strategy • Determines content requirements • Documents page level info hierarchy • Informs content creation by establishing content level goals • Shares content level audience insight 6
- 7. Interaction Design • Designs the pieces • Refines the flow • Determines the edges and errors • Documents the solutions 7
- 8. User Research • Informs Strategy • Tests solutions • Compares performance • Measures success 8
- 9. User Experience is a result, not a tool How users feel? How users act? effect you have Your return on investment 9
- 10. And we want the result to be good 10
- 11. Good is Goal Based 11
- 12. Good is worked towards 12
- 13. Good is Measurable • User testing • Satisfaction Surveys • Usage Data/Analytics • Social Media Statistics • Sales data, even non digital equivalents • Qualitative metrics (sales force or customer service quotas)
- 14. Getting to Good 14
- 15. First You have to understand How people hear about your offering(s) How people explore your offering(s) What could detract How people Who else could from this person opt into your entice this person proceeding at this offering(s) at this point? point? How people use your offering the first time How people use your offering over time
- 16. Then You have to Look forward 1. Map facts How people hear about your offering(s) 2. Map Questions 3. Map Opportunity How people explore your offering(s) What could detract How people Who else could from this person opt into your entice this person proceeding at this offering(s) at this point? point? How people use your offering the first time How people use your offering over time
- 17. And pick the right measures If you have a question about Examples to be looking at… If something is effective Completion rates Whether something is findable Speed to find People’s Expectations Bounce Rates & Time on Site Satisfaction Interviews, Surveys, Ask Sales and CSRs Is enough Information provided? Are people clicking to further information consistently? Are people using the path as designed? Click path data (Courtesy of Richard Dalton)
- 18. Example Questions Planning to measure Awareness: How do people find out User interviews and Surveys about us? Acquisition: Where will our loyal users Surveys, Analytics: Traffic Sources for Repeat Users be coming from? Conversion: What is the average time on Analytics: Time on site compared to industry averages and site for us? What is normal? for loyalty users vs single article users Action: Will people interact with the Analytics: Click rates on items suggested on article pages content we suggest they interact with after reading the entry article? Loyalty: How will loyalty users differ from Analytics: Compare variety of points across loyalty users new users? and single article users Other: How should sharing work? What Surveys, Interviews, Analytics: Track social sharing do people share? behavior to establish baselines for types of events
- 19. Based on what you know, get to know users • Talk to potential users • Talk to actual users (if you have them) • Talk to competitive users (no one said you couldn’t – unless they did, then don’t) • Spend time shadowing users in their real lives • Watch people using equivalent or similar things to what you are making • Use competitive things in the market • Social media listening • Blogs, customer reviews, forums… the internet is HUGE
- 20. Set some smart goals q Specific q Measurable q Achievable q Relevant q Time bound
- 21. Establish your scope to meet those goals Scope = What we all agreed to do
- 22. Prioritize your scope Business Prioritization: User Prioritization: ü Meets Competitive/Industry or ü Appropriate for my life Regulatory Bar ü Relevant to me ü Meets Contractual Obligation ü Availability of Resources or ü Within reach in price and Partners availability ü Budget to Produce What measurement is fair? • High: Must have and would consider holding launch until I get it • Medium: Is pretty essential but launch is priority over it • Low: Nice to have but not essential
- 23. Feature or Idea Brand (H,M,L) User (H,M,L) Phase Decision Cost/Hours to Produce Insert Insert Insert Insert Insert • Allows for dual prioritization • Allows for phase designation outside of prioritization • Indicates cost/time per feature or idea (optional)
- 24. Define the IA 24
- 25. Work through the content strategy 25
- 26. Design The Interactions 26
- 27. Measure user reactions at any point along the way 27
- 29. Work with Creatives and Developers to build
- 31. #1 question: Who does what? 31
- 32. Most people in this world wear many hats Information Architecture As a result... In te r • UX has become a catch all word for people De ac sig tio n n working in these fields • Job titles tend to be confusing • Outsiders tend to not understand the Con ten difference between these things t St rat egy User Research 32
- 33. #2 question: How do I get started? 33
- 34. Move the trashcan Identify a problem in the world and solve it by paying attention to user needs If that sounds fun... you may be a UX person 34
- 35. Activity How people hear about your offering(s) • Break into teams of 3-5 • Pick a Product* How people explore your • In Class: Develop a offering(s) Funnel listing: – Facts (What exists today) What could detract How people Who else could from this person opt into your entice this person – Questions + how to proceeding at this point? offering(s) at this point? measure – Opportunity How people use your offering the first time ★ Tomorrow you will present this to class.. How people use your offering YAY! over time 35
- 36. Homework 1. Split up the “opportunities” identified within your team. Assure everyone agrees on its validity. 2. Each student should sketch a picture or series of pictures to explain an opportunity to the class during presentation of their funnel
- 37. Thanks [email protected] @ Abby_The_IA www.Abbytheia.com (slides will be up online later today)