7 habits for building highly effective websites
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Lynn Winter Director of Projects, Gorton Studios
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How are you currently communicating?
What tools are you currently using?
What are your communication problems?
SURVEY YOUR LANDSCAPE
Who are the players involved?
Why do you need new or different tools?
Budget
Time to implement
DEFINE YOUR BOUNDARIES
Length of use
Amount of users
Accessibility
Design/UI
Sign-up for test accounts
Present options to the team
Rip the band-aid and implement
RESEARCH, TEST & IMPLEMENT
Allow for testing and feedback time
Gather feedback
Identify the goal of testing
Determine your available budget and time
Appoint your user testing lead
HOW CAN YOU GET STARTED?
Isolate and find users
Determine where the testing will take place
Discuss how feedback will be gathered, reported, & implemented
HOW CAN YOU GET STARTED?
Discuss testing options
01 CARD SORTING
Observing how users group information together
CARD SORTING Observing how users group information together
Create an organization wide communications strategy
Evaluate your capacity and capabilities
CONTENT PLANNING STEPS
Become an expert on your existing content
Assign responsibility and begin purging process
Create an organization wide communications strategy
Evaluate your capacity and capabilities
CONTENT PLANNING STEPS
Become an expert on your existing content
Assign responsibility and begin purging process
Create, revise, and review content
Enter content into the site and test
Actually maintain your content
CONTENT PLANNING STEPS
Plan for your future
Create, revise, and review content
Enter content into the site and test
Actually maintain your content
CONTENT PLANNING STEPS
Plan for your future
The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the
power of simplicity.
- Robert Stuberg
“ ”
The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about consumers with
the least effort.
- Wikipedia.org
“ ”
MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT
MAXIMUM VALUE PRODUCT Maximum Value is not about creating value through building more features. It’s about maximizing the value within the features you do build…maximum value product
promotes doing only that which you can do exceptionally well.
- Adam Smith
“ ”
ESTABLISH HABITS
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not!”
Determine the frequency
Complete mini-retrospectives mid project
ESTABLISH YOUR HABITS
Choose your location
Skipping steps
Silence
WATCH FOR RED FLAGS
No feedback
Swoop and poop
Missing deadlines
Attendance down
HOLD A POST MORTEM
“Oh, yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
Facilitator must come prepared
Ask team to give feedback in advance
Feed people
MEETING GUIDELINES
Keep it time-boxed
Make it count!
Set the meeting tone
Revisit the project history
Solve the problems
RESTROSPECTIVE AGENDA
Hash it out
Determine next steps
Complete security updates
Have a disaster plan
CREATE A MAINTENANCE & IMPROVEMENT PLAN
Implement the content governance plan
Begin regular tracking and reporting on site analytics
Discuss continued user testing
Plan site improvements schedule
CREATE A MAINTENANCE & IMPROVEMENT PLAN
KEEP LEARNING
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. Your can steer yourself any direction you choose”
Join the community
Complete online learning
Become a social creeper
KEEP ON LEARNING!
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