yahoo! hack india: hyderabad | visualizing user experience

Visualizing User ExperiencePrasanna Revan, Y!Design, Yahoo! Bangalore

Saturday, July 13, 13

Hi, I am Prasanna Revan.

My passion is design. My distractions are, Motorcycling, Arduino, Farming, Kinect, Indology, Vampires, Comic Books, Spaceships, Nature, Birds, Steampunk, Stories, Pigments, Nibs, Calligraphy, Typoholics, Startrek, Adele, Country Music, 1930s Talk Radio, Mridangam, Breaking Bad, Craftwerk, Alan Moore, Renaissance Art, Post Modernism, Green Tea, Red Wine and Blues Music.

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Me

YouI need to make a confession!

Aarthi Ramamurthy http://www.flickr.com/photos/aarthi/437923767/sizes/o/in/photostream/Saturday, July 13, 13

To visualize user experiences you need no

training.experience.special skills.fancy tools.

by vill3r http://www.flickr.com/photos/viller/8925872014/sizes/h/in/

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Well, all you need is

a warm heart.passion for users.a keen sense.eye for details.&courage to fail!

By muscolinos www.flickr.com/photos/muscolinos/2435217016/sizes/l/in/photostream/Saturday, July 13, 13

I have two broad questions for you...

What is Art?

and What is Design?

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This is Art.

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Philips Livingcolors - 16 Million Color LED

This is Design

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Today’s topics

How it connects with User Experience?

What is to Visualize?

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The answer lies in one word.

“Interface”

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Interface is everywhere!

David.Asch - http://www.flickr.com/photos/trinity-of-one/20562069/sizes/o/i

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Graphical user interfacesWeb user interfaces Touchscreens (Display)Command line interfaces Touch user interface (Touch pads) Attentive user interfaces (Present warnings)Conversational Interface Agents (Robots, Etc) Gesture interfaces (Kinect)Intelligent user interfaces (Combination of many)Motion tracking interfaces (body motions to cmd)Multi-screen interfaces (one UI many screens)Tangible user interfaces (Touch and environmental)Task-Focused Interfaces (tasks, not files, as primary)Voice user interfaces Natural-language interfaces (Search) Zero-Input interfaces (Sensors) Zooming user interfaces (Cubes, data)

Yes, Everywhere!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface_design

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Important elements of visualizing Imagine / new possibilitiesEmpathize / emotionsSynthesize / blend seamlessly Create / new methodsReduce / Finetune

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Imagine the impossible.MIT'S ORBSFrom MIT’s Media Lab, a series of levitating orbs can be rearranged--placed right in midair--to interface with any computer simulation you can imagine. It’s a 3-D user interface that you can touch.

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Empathizing with scrap-bookers.

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Empathizing with independent artists.

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Synthesize everything!

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Fine-tune and re-invent.

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Creating with simple interactions

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Surprise!

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Visual Elements

Type / TypographyLayout / CompositionContrast / IntensityVisual Story / ThemePalette / Clarity

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Create Your Story

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Create Your Story

FORD KEYFREEFord’s Keyfree has nothing to do with cars. Instead, this promotional app stores all of your passwords on your iPhone,

AIRBNBAirbnb redesigned this year with a focus on social. Airbnb switched the interaction, from clicking a star to clicking a heart. Engagement grew by 30%. Why? Stars mean nothing. Hearts (or love?) are aspirational.

TWINETwine, a puck filled with sensors detects anything from moisture to magnetism. Stick it anywhere and it’ll tweet status updates at your command and there is no coding skill required.

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Build a Visual Design Strategy

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Google-Visual-Assets-Guidelines-Part-2/9084309

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Know Your Composition Basics

The Fibonacci sequence starts like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 and so on forever. Each number is the sum of the two numbers that precede it. It's a simple pattern, but it appears to be a kind of built-in numbering system to the cosmos.

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Composition and Golden Ratio

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Define your Grid

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Examples of Responsive Grid Design

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Create simple Navigation

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Define Key Page-types

Login CRUD Dashboard

And identify patterns...

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Contrast is key

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Know Your Typography

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Type can evoke powerful feelings.

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Play with the Palette

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Key steps for visual thinking

Artifacts Model Refine

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Visual experience is beyond front-end.

It has to be a part of your product strategy.

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The goal is not to create a deliverable, it’s to change something in the world—to create an outcome.

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Thank you!

The goal is not to create a deliverable, it’s to change something in the world—to create an outcome.

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