User Experience Flight Check

USER EXPERIENCE FLIGHT CHECK WordCamp Chicago

Launch Prep UX COUNTDOWN

Grant Hutchinson (splorp@ﬂickr) Site As Software

✓ Release worthy ✓ Respect users - even if it’s just you & your cat ✓ Fixes take time & money ✓ Build with upgrades, new features in mind ✓ Cut the right corners - aka ad hoc QA

Grant Hutchinson (splorp@ﬂickr) Works As Expected

✓ Blog, Website, Both, Who Cares? ✓ Snozberries taste like Snozberries ✓ Be Yourself, Be Creative, Be Careful ✓ Experience Extends to Content Creators ✓ URLs Are Your Currency ✓ Tame Dynamic Plugins

Grant Hutchinson (splorp@ﬂickr) Know Your Users

✓ Tailor content and experience to your users ✓ Your users may include machines ✓ Respect, Flexibility & Control ✓ Mobility - Is your content & culture mobile? ✓ Analytics are your friend

MASTER CHECKLIST

MASTER CHECKLIST Blog Single Page ✓ Sharing tools ✓ Comment Gravatars ✓ Permalink Structure ✓ Links to Comment Author ✓ Permalinked Elements ✓ Author Comment Coloring ✓ Pagination / Next & Prev ✓ Pagination ✓ Number of posts ✓ Threading ✓ Featured Posts ✓ Discussion Beyond Blog ✓ Alt text

MASTER CHECKLIST Connections Analytics ✓ URL services ✓ Google Analytics ✓ Subscribe via email ✓ Chartbeat ✓ Facebook like ✓ Click Tracking ✓ SEO Tools ✓ 3rd Party Stats ✓ Twitter ✓ Flash video, JWPLayer, etc ✓ Trackbacks

MASTER CHECKLIST Fallbacks Worst Case Scenario ✓ Search box ✓ Image sizes breaking layout ✓ Search results ✓ Garbage code in posts ✓ Smart 404 ✓ Empty sections Random ✓ Overloaded sections ✓ Author links ✓ Performance ✓ Favicon

MASTER CHECKLIST Feeds & Things ✓ Full Posts ✓ Permalinks ✓ Hitting the Yahoo! Pipe(s) ✓ Feedburner

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THANKS! @jharr jeremy@voceconnect.com

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User Experience Flight Check

by jharr on Jun 05, 2010

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