design for cross-channel experiences

morville@semanticstudios.com

Design for Cross-Channel Experiences Samantha Starmer, REI Peter Morville, Semantic Studios

morville@semanticstudios.comwho am I?

Agenda9:00 - 9:15 Introductions

9:15 - 10:30 IA: Beyond the Web (Peter)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 What is X-Channel? (Samantha)

Exercise #1: Experience Opportunities

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break

1:30 - 2:30 X-Channel: How (Peter & Samantha)

2:30 - 3:30 Exercise #2: Experience Mapping

4:00 - 5:00 Q&A, Discussion, Closing Remarks

SlidesSamantha’shttp://www.slideshare.net/sstarmer/

Peter’shttp://www.slideshare.net/morville/

http://semanticstudios.com/xchannel.pdf

http://prezi.com/aafmvya6bk7t/understanding-information-architecture/

Ubiquitous IACross-Channel Strategy

Peter Morville, IA Summit 2012

ArchitectureDesignTechnology

Information Architecture: It’s What You Do First.

in•for•ma•tion ar•chi•tec•ture n.

• The structural design of shared information environments.

• The combination of organization, labeling, search, and navigation systems in web sites and intranets.

• The art and science of shaping information products and experiences to support usability and findability.

• An emerging discipline and community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.

Polar Bear IA

Framing1. Classic Information Architecture (Polar

Bear).

2. Web Strategy (Web, Mobile, Social).

3. Cross-Channel Strategy (Physical, Digital).

4. Ubiquitous IA (Intertwingularity)..

The Library of Congress“To further the progress of knowledge and

creativity.”.

morville@semanticstudios.comFragmentationFragmentation into multiple sites, domains, and identities is clearly a major problem. Users don’t know which site to visit for which purpose.

Findability Users can’t find what they need from the home page, but most users don’t come through the front door. They enter via a web search or a deep link, and are confused by what they find. Even worse, most never use the Library, because its resources aren’t easily findable.

Visual Thinking Unwritten Rule #1

“Whoever best describes a problem is the person most likely to solve the problem.

…or, whoever draws the best picture gets the funding.”

1. One Library

2. Core Areas

3. Network Intelligence

Web Strategy

Experience Across Channels

Interfaces• Portal• Search• Object• Set• Page

Caveats• Visual Design• Starting Point

Wireframes

20Source: Search Patterns (2010)

Search is a Complex, Adaptive System

Where architects use forms and spaces to design environments for inhabitation, information architects use nodes and links to create environments for understanding.Jorge Arango, Architectures

23Bill Verplank, IxD11 Opening Keynote, http://vimeo.com/20285615 (00:19:30)

25“Desire Lines” Photo: Berkeley Path Gallery by Kevin Fox

Experiences Across Channels

Location Aware

The Future of Mobile Search

Query by Wandering

Location Aware Search by Wandering Multisensory

“People keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable, and sequential when they can’t.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.” Ted Nelson

“Information is blurring the lines between products and services to create multi-channel, cross-platform, trans-media, physico-digital user experiences.” Peter Morville

31Source: Subject to Change (2008)

World’s Best Information

Architect

“Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping reinvented through network technologies on a scale and in ways never possible before.”

Desktop

Mobile

Up The Stairs“How do we make it easier for people to learn about multi-channel possibilities?”http://findability.org/archives/000640.php

My Shelf

• Location (GPS)• Orientation (Compass)• Motion (Accelerometer)• Orientation/Motion (Gyroscope)• Touch (Multi-Touch, Gestural)• Light (Ambient)• Proximity• Device (Bluetooth)• Audio (Microphone)• Image/Video (Camera)• RFID (Soon)

Sensors

“After a half-hour, a three-tone alert sounds…If the bottle still has not been opened, the system makes an automated reminder phone call to the patient or a caregiver. The GlowCap system compiles adherence data which anyone can be authorized to track. That way the doctor can make sure Gramps stays on his meds.”

find·a·bil·i·ty n

The quality of being locatable or navigable.

The degree to which an object is easy to discover or locate.

The degree to which a system or environment supports wayfinding, navigation, and retrieval.

am·bi·ent adj

Surrounding; encircling; enveloping (e.g., ambient air)

the ability to find anyone or anything from anywhere at anytime

David Roseambientdevices.com

BrainPort

Camera in glasses captures video.

Image recreated on grid of 400 electrodes.

User feels the shape on the tongue.

Brain learns to see through the tongue.

ProductPackagingPrint CatalogCall CenterWebsiteBlogFacebookTwitterYouTubeEmailDirect MailRadioTelevision

ChannelWebSocial MediaEmailMessagingTelephonePrint

PlatformWebiOSAndroidMac OS XMS Windows

DeviceDesktopLaptopMobileTabletTelevisionKiosk

ScaleCovertMobilePersonalEnvironmentalArchitecturalUrban

MediaBookNewspaperMagazineVideoAudioPosterBillboard

ContextHomeWorkWalkingDrivingShoppingPlanePartyPersonalSocialLocationTimeTask

Touchpoint Taxonomy

reFraming1. Classic Information Architecture (Polar

Bear).

2. Web Strategy (Web, Mobile, Social).

3. Cross-Channel Strategy (Physical, Digital).

4. Intertwingularity (Ubiquitous, Ambient).

What is Information Architecture?

http://www.maya.com/the-feed/what-is-information-architecture

What architects do for buildings, information architects do for…

“There is a problem in discussing systems only with words. Words and sentences must, by necessity, come only one a time in linear, logical order. Systems happen all at once. They are connected not just in one direction, but in many directions simultaneously. To discuss them properly, it is necessary to use a language that shares some of the same properties as the phenomena under discussion.”

"In an era of cross-channel experiences and product-service systems, it makes less and less sense to design sitemaps and wireframes without also..."

“…mapping the customer journey, modeling the system dynamics, and analyzing impacts upon business processes, incentives, and the

org chart."

The fast parts learn, propose, and absorb shocks; the slow parts remember, integrate, and constrain.

The fast parts get all the attention. The slow parts have all the power.

Steward Brand on “Pace Layering”

Richard Saul Wurman’s Sandcastles (1971). Stolen from The Nature of IA by Dan Klyn (2010).

morville@semanticstudios.comhttp://is.gd/iaprezi

Agenda9:00 - 9:15 Introductions

9:15 - 10:30 IA: Beyond the Web (Peter)

11:00 - 12:00 What is X-Channel? (Samantha)

Exercise #1: Experience Mapping

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break

1:30 - 2:30 X-Channel: How (Peter & Samantha)

2:30 - 3:30 Exercise #2: Experience Mapping

4:00 - 5:00 Q&A, Discussion, Closing Remarks

A Framework for Cross-Channel Strategy

Peter Morville, IA Summit 2012

goals, strategy, brand, process, technology, resources, politics, culture…

objects, types, metadata, structure, relationships,source, volume, growth

audiences, user needs, use cases, mental models, vocabulary, behavior

Design PrinciplesDesign

Principles

Cross-Channel Strategy

Composition multi- or cross-channel; mix of

platforms, devices, media; coherence

Consistency brand, features, organization, interaction

balanced against value of optimization

Connection links, tags, signs, maps; call to action

Continuity bookmark, resume playback, flow

Context personal, social, location, time, task

Conflict identify/resolve, org chart, free-riding

http://findability.org/archives/000652.php

73Adapted from Cross-Platform Service User Experience

portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1851637

Today's “service systems” may include interrelated sub-systems (e.g., person-to-person, self-service) across multiple locations, devices, and channels; and customer satisfaction is “influenced by the extent of integration and consistency” across those channels.

Bridging the “Front Stage” and “Back Stage” in Service System Design by Robert J. Glushko and Lindsay Tabas

Craft beautiful designs that deliver a quality experience

to your users no matter how large (or small) their display.1. Fluid Grids2. Flexible Images3. Media Queries

Why Separate Mobile & Desktop Web Pages at Bagcheck?

With a dual template system, we were able to optimize:1. Source Order2. Media (Speed, Quality, Interaction)3. URL Structure4. Application Design

Navigation at Bottom

Navigation at Top

78Source: Mobile First (2011) by Luke Wroblewski

Mobile

79Source: Mobile First (2011) by Luke Wroblewski

Transmedia Design by Jakob Nielsenhttp://www.useit.com/alertbox/3-screens-transmedia.html

“The highest-value use will stay predominantly on desktop.”

“Most companies must support both device classes …with separate UI designs.”

PCBig ScreensBetter Input DevicesFaster BandwidthHardware OomphSoftware MaturityPrinting

Mobile“The best computer is the one you have with you.”

To make the right decisions about composition andconsistency, you need a cross-channel strategy.

Design for Connection

Over 50% of REI online business is picked up in a store.

BarcodeIdentifies a Product (e.g. Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes 14

QR CodeInitiates a Response (e.g., URL, Message, Phone, SMS,

Email)

Price CheckProduct DetailEndless Aisle

Continuity

Conflict

Context

Marathon

98Triathlon

Cross-Channel

We must leave ourcomfort zones, cross-

train,and collaborate.

Source: delightability.com

Mental Models

http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/mental-models/

Features

http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/the-anatomy-of-an-experience-map

UX Swimlanes

110Urban Sensing by Dan Hill

Resources

IA Therefore I AmPeter Morvillemorville@semanticstudios.com

Understanding IA (Prezi)http://is.gd/iaprezi

Bloghttp://findability.org/

Twitter@morville

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