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The assignment:
Our team of 3 was given 2 weeks to design a recurring pledge model for our hypothetical client, Kickstarter.
The proposal:
Based on our primary personas, we designed two types of recurring pledge models:
1. The “multiphase” model to help sustain long-term creative projects...
So good
5 min read. Probably what you will be going through soon.
Project 3, or in my group’s case, creating a new feature in Venmo that allows the ability to search and donate to causes (charities, crowdfunding projects etc.) has been a pretty interesting process thus far. We (Touna, Sylvia and myself) are currently crossing what I consider to be the first...
And then the prototype single at the end #woooo #yougotme
IPhone 6 support in pop!
POP - Prototyping on Paper. by Woomoo
Don’t make your interface into modern dance.
Translation: Keep it simple, stupid.
Don’t eat Mystery Meat.
Translation: Don’t get too creative with your nav.
Don’t have orphans. My grandma was an orphan.
Translation: Your global navigation should be broad enough to cover everything...
So insight Such wisdom
AM
Pecha Kucha - We did mini presentations of what we had ready for our user flows, sitemaps, and wireframes in 1.5 minutes. It was helpful to get feedback from classmates, as well as see how other people did things and get ideas of how to do them.
Dom then did a lecture on navigation, focusing...
PA chukka cha
Preping for your presos
Talk about your designs (orally and on slides) as if you didn't design them. Srsly. You are an advocate of users not your designs. Distance yourself to help get buy in by assuming the skepticism of a responsible stakeholder. Use the language of Information Architecture and Usability heuristics that you've accumulated (and don't forget the sub points!):
Abby Covert https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8UPNtfhw4FPYU1PYW1OeDU0NUk&authuser=1
Jakob Nielsen https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0OuXLk15FlpRlNGeUlVeDJTSk0&authuser=1
Don Norman https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0OuXLk15FlpbjVkRFM1VEw2R2M&authuser=1
Theresa Niel/Bill Scott https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0OuXLk15FlpSW5QVV9xNTUtbFU&authuser=1
Balls deep is only this high, shouldn't you have to go higher?
-Jackie Snow
"Your web layout should look like good ketchup tastes."
Nevan Scott, continuing his 11-day streak of killing it. (via sh541)
Badass lessons from the day. #p2
KHAAAAAAAAANN
Good Design is
Innovative
Useful
Aesthetic design
Understandable
Unobtrusive
Honest
Long lasting
Consistent in every detail
Environmentally Friendly
As little design as possible
thanks for the big 10 Dieter Rams
Phasers, this is what I cut out of your lesson. Any thoughts? U mad?
For those working on the enterprise side of UX
Also, UX Matters is generally a good newsletter
Detail look into a UX process
Week 1: 55 Minutes
I believe it was the great Luke Miller who once said, “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about the solution.
Or maybe that was Einstein.
My memory fails me.
I’ve now completed a full week of UXDI, and although Thursday night felt something like this,
I live to see another week.
Here are some of the key things I took away from the first full week:
1. Focus feverishly on the problem: The better you understand the problem, the easier it is to craft an appropriate solution. Make cars, not faster horses. Also, anything Einstein and Lincoln are down with, I can get behind.
2. Understand your users: You are not the user. I imagine that this simple concept is one of the things executives struggle with most. Being so close to a product, one assumes that they know exactly how and why it’s used. But until that research is done, we’re building a product on assumptions.
3. “If you’re not involving your users, you’re not practicing User Centered Design. If you’re not involving your users, you’re not crafting a user experience.” Yup.
4. The Four Lists Model: By understanding our users’ context, behaviors, pains, and pleasures, we can more easily empathize and understand their problems. Understanding problems = good.
5. “Why?” : Asking why over, and over, and over, we arrive at a much different problem than we were originally tasked with. We arrive at a much more fundamental problem- hopefully the root cause of the initially perceived problem.
6. User interviewing is an art: that I haven’t perfected. In user interviewing, I find myself inclined to have a casual conversation with the user. “Yeah, totally! Me too! I mean, uh, tell me more about that.” I really enjoy the exploratory aspect of interviews, I just need to make sure I remain unbiased and allow the user to guide the conversation.
7. User flows as a journey: For our first projects, our user flows were all clean and well-mapped out. Still, I can’t help but want to the see the flow of a user who gets lost on a site. I imagine seeing an 80-item flowchart for a simple, core functionality of a product might change a stakeholder’s view on a specific feature.
8. Storyboarding: It’s a lot more humanizing than I imagined it would be. Painting a tangible narrative around a behavior is quite powerful. But I can’t draw. Oh well.
9. “Enlightened trial and error triumphs over the planning of a lone genius.” Yup.
10. Fidelity is tied to recruiting: Lower fidelity sketches require lower fidelity users. The greater the fidelity, the more legitimate the testing demographic should be.
11. Shortcuts for power users: Not the biggest issue in the UX field, but something I find very interesting. Offering advanced users special functionality: a simple, nice user experience for your most regular users.
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notes! great great notes!
1. Keep Your User Comfy
Introduce yourself and the task. Keep the user comfortable so they are at ease sharing their experience. Remind them that they aren’t the ones being tested, that they are doing the testing.
2. Give Context
Start with a scenario to give the user context for when...
Best meme for UX researcher!!!!
The Design Process
Deiter Rams (german industrial design):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams
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What is design?
Charles Eames (industrial designer)
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”
Don’t think of it as a...
Great notes! #alwayswthehands
