Greetings, Users of Earth, or Hello, World!
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This document discusses the process of developing user interfaces and interactions for a system. It describes how originally the design and development teams worked separately without collaboration, leading to issues. It then goes through examples of refining text for the system based on user testing and feedback. It emphasizes lessons around understanding requirements, using style guides, and maximizing that "just enough is more."
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- 1. Greetings, Users of Earth, or Hello, World! David K Rathbun linkedin.com/in/davidkrathbun @david_k_rathbun Smallest Effective Difference (SmallEff.Strikingly.com)
- 2. Process Development team and design teams were separate organizations, each hired by the consortium. Parallel development of design and software (without collaboration!). UX embraces graphic design, UI design, technical requirements, and communication.
- 3. Process Development team and design teams were separate organizations, each hired by the consortium. Parallel development of design and software (without collaboration!). UX embraces graphic design, UI design, technical requirements, and communication.
- 4. Process Development team and design teams were separate organizations, each hired by the consortium. Parallel development of design and software (without collaboration!). UX embraces graphic design, UI design, technical requirements, and communication.
- 5. Process A graphic designer drafted the text. A copy editor gave it a light once-over. Graphic design team delivered copy deck to development team. I reviewed and commented on copy deck.
- 6. Process A graphic designer drafted the text. A copy editor gave it a light once-over. Graphic design team delivered copy deck to development team. I reviewed and commented on copy deck.
- 7. Process A graphic designer drafted the text. A copy editor gave it a light once-over. Graphic design team delivered copy deck to development team. I reviewed and commented on copy deck.
- 8. Process A graphic designer drafted the text. A copy editor gave it a light once-over. Graphic design team delivered copy deck to development team. I reviewed the copy deck.
- 9. Process
- 10. Verify Your Country and Date of Birth According to an initial requirements document, delivered to the design firm, no verification of the user-entered information is possible. How exactly is this information โverifiedโ?
- 11. Enter Your Country and Date of Birth [System] ([acronym]) requires all of its members to provide their actual date of birth, so that account access levels can be applied correctly and to help ensure that only age-appropriate content is viewed when Parental Controls are set. โAge appropriate contentโ is determined based on the Motion Picture Association of America Film Ratings and TV Parental Guidelines.
- 12. Enter Your Country and Date of Birth [System] ([acronym]) requires all of its members to provide their actual date of birth, so that account access levels can be applied correctly and to help ensure that only age-appropriate content is viewed when Parental Controls are set. โAge appropriate contentโ is determined based on the Motion Picture Association of America Film Ratings and TV Parental Guidelines. Abbreviation not permitted.
- 13. Enter Your Country and Date of Birth [System] requires all of its members to provide their real date of birth, so that account access levels can be applied correctly and to help ensure that only age- appropriate content is viewed when Parental Controls are set. โAge appropriate contentโ is determined based on the Motion Picture Association of America Film Ratings and TV Parental Guidelines. As opposed to โunrealโ date of birth?
- 14. Enter Your Country and Date of Birth [System] requires all of its members to provide their actual date of birth, so that account access levels can be applied correctly and to help ensure that only age- appropriate content is viewed when Parental Controls are set. โAge appropriate contentโ is determined based on the Motion Picture Association of America Film Ratings and TV Parental Guidelines.Faulty parallelism.
- 15. Enter Your Country and Date of Birth [System] requires all of its members to provide their actual date of birth, so that account access levels can be applied correctly and so that only age-appropriate content is viewed when Parental Controls are set. โAge appropriate contentโ is determined based on the Motion Picture Association of America Film Ratings and TV Parental Guidelines. Account-creating first user has default โpermissions.โ
- 16. Enter Your Country and Date of Birth [System] requires all of its members to provide their actual date of birth, so that account access levels can be applied correctly and so that only age-appropriate content is viewed when Parental Controls are set. โAge appropriate contentโ is determined based on the Motion Picture Association of America Film Ratings and TV Parental Guidelines.No parental controls set for first user.
- 17. Enter Your Country and Date of Birth [System] requires all of its members to provide their actual date of birth. โAge appropriate contentโ is determined based on the Motion Picture Association of America Film Ratings and TV Parental Guidelines. Only in the U.S.A.
- 18. Enter Your Country and Date of Birth [System] requires all of its members to provide their actual date of birth.
- 19. Measuring Success Before: 303 characters 53 words 5 punctuation marks
- 20. Measuring Success Before: 303 characters 53 words 5 punctuation marks After: 63 characters 13 words 1 punctuation mark
- 21. Measuring Success 80% fewer characters
- 22. Measuring Success 80% fewer characters 80% fewer words
- 23. Measuring Success 80% fewer characters 80% fewer words 80% fewer punctuation marks
- 24. Lessons Learned Understand the technical requirements Understand the roadmap Understand English grammar, spelling, punctuation Use a style guide
- 25. Maxims โLess is more.โ --Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- 26. Maxims โLess is more.โ --Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- 27. Maxims โJust enough is more.โ --Milton Glaser
- 28. Maxims โJust enough is more.โ --Milton Glaser โPerfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.โ --Antoine de Saint-Exupery (from Wind, Sand and Stars)
- 29. Maxims โJust enough is more.โ --Milton Glaser โPerfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.โ --Antoine de Saint-Exupery (from Wind, Sand and Stars)
- 30. Maxims โJust enough is more.โ --Milton Glaser โPrecisely because it is perfect, the machine dissembles its own existence, instead of forcing itself upon our notice.โ --Antoine de Saint-Exupery (from Wind, Sand and Stars)
- 31. David K Rathbun โข LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidkrathbun โข Twitter: @david_k_rathbun โข Smallest Effective Difference SmallEff.Strikingly.com
Editor's Notes
- Technically complex system ever worked on.
- Handed off to graphic design team without the participation and leadership of the development team.
- Collaboration is required
- UX is technical, graphics, English
- Stunned and amazed. Grammar, technical, spelling, punctuation, consistency
- I produced this
- Almost 500 errors. More than one error in each line Mostly technical inaccuracies, English language usage, ambiguity. One example: intro to Users experience Thee words above (and the following instructions) are first encountered by someone creating an account. This is the beginning of the account creation workflow. It starts with the account-creating userโs country and date of birth. It proceeds with the creation of other users in the account.
- NO Geolocation by IP address or any other means
- And then we have this. Over 300 characters. Over 50 words. Deep breath This is a barrier Technical errors, English language usage errors, incorrect and faulty explanations. Should be cut entirely. This is all a discussion of WHY All unnecessary
- ย This acronym is incorrect. See Brand Identity Guidelines, p 32. ย
- โActualโ seems closer to the intended meaning: โnot false.โ
- This clause is constructed with a (split) infinitive verb (โto help ensureโ), so that it appears to be parallel with an earlier clause (beginning with the compound verb โto provideโ), when in fact it is parallel with the clause beginning โso thatโฆโ It should read, โand so that only age-appropriate content, etc.โ In other words, this sentence lacks the parallelism necessary to support its length.
- First user is always a โfull-accessโ user. Can view all content.
- Technically incorrect.
- This statement is technically correct only within the United States. Yes, country has already been collected, but there is no indication that this text is conditional, and no other text for other countries.
- After cutting all of the technical inaccuracies, a-grammatical English usage, and other mistakes, we are left with this simple declarative sentence.
- Clever, but really says A equals not A. Non-Aristotelian logic that is impossible to reason about or with.
- Talking about airplane design also applies to industrial design, human-computer interaction, everything really.