intro to ux for developers by brenda jin
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Want to create a relevant product and viable business model? Or just kill it at the next hackathon or paired programming night? Join this hands-on session to learn about tools that will help you innovate and communicate better with internal and external stakeholders. Geared especially towards developers, this talk focuses on how you can maximize a user-based approach in product development cycles to debug early with high return on investment using simple and low-cost techniques.TRANSCRIPT
Intro to UX for Developers
Brenda Jin
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Intro to UX for DevelopersBrenda Jin
User eXperience: how a person feels about, perceives, and
accomplishes an interaction with a computer
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Overview
1) Background Tools2) Try It - Prototyping3) Try It - Testing4) Additional
Resources
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Background Tools
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UX is a design and communication tool.
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Humans are wildly diverse.
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As hackers and builders, we want to disrupt –
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while providing an intuitive experience.
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Tool #1: Identifying Needs
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Finding Needs
• Interview and observe• Pay attention to pain points, places
where extra explanation is needed
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Tool #2:Set Goals
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Focus on the goal so that you can
• See the forest and the trees• Measure twice, cut once
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Now that we know the problem…
why not build the solution already?
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Tool#3:Prototyping
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Prototype: A first or preliminary model of something
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas” - Linus Pauling
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• The first solution is not necessarily the best
• Debug early, when it matters a lot• Communicate using data and stories
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Myth:Prototypes are pretty
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Truth:Prototypes don’t have to be.
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Image courtesy of The Verge
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Myth: Prototypes have lots of features
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Truth: Prototypes can be quite minimal.
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Myth:Prototyping is expensive
in time and money
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Truth: Prototyping saves c4$h
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Prototypes get almost none of the glory,
but do a lot of the work.
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Paper
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Wizard of Oz
Try It: Prototyping
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Your turn!
You’re building a new mobile email client. What does the composition
window look like?
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Your turn again!
Sketch a second prototype that is different from the first.
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Prototypes are questions, and questions are
the currency of collaboration.
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The goal of rapid prototyping is rapid feedback.
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To get feedback, you need to test.
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Direct Observation• Ask tester to talk through thoughts• Focus on the goal of problem-solving
rather than on your method or interface
• Use data to evolve your product and tell your story
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“When you prototype something and simulate, you get much better decisions for the next step.”
-Hartmut Esslinger
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Try It: Testing
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Pair up!
Option1: Ask your partner to complete a task with your prototype. Observe.
Option2: Share your prototypes with each other and create a single new prototype that incorporates the best ideas from both.
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What did you learn?
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Additional Resources
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Additional ResourcesStanford Online Human-Computer Interactionat Coursera.org
Software: Balsamiq, Axure, Indigo Studio, web frameworks
Always cheap and compatible: Paper!
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