From Muppets to Mastery - Learning About UX from Jim Henson

From Muppets to Mastery: Core UX Principles from Mr. Jim HensonRuss Unger | @russu WebVisions NYC

#UXMuppets | @russuA Brief Timeline userglue.com

#UXMuppets | @russuA Brief Timeline

#UXMuppets | @russuJim Henson & Design userglue.com

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russu A Good Experience is Invisible Give the audience enough to work with and they’ll do the rest for you. (Suspension of Disbelief)

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuPatternsOriginal Muppets weredesigned so that ~6Muppets could be easilymade from a singledesign.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russu “Making Things UpJim didn’t know much [Muppets] was really justabout creating a TV show, a term we made up.but that was okay. He gotto figure it out as he wentalong.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russu “Making Things UpJim didn’t know much [Muppets] was really justabout creating a TV show, a term we made up.but that was okay. He gotto figure it out as he wentalong. What Terms Have We Made Up? •Affordances •Heuristics •Contextual Inquiry •Deliverables •Bodystorming •Skeumorphic •Mental Models •Participatory Design •Folksonomy •Information Architecture •User Experience Design *No disrespect to our friends of have created these, of course!

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuVisual Thinking“I’ve always been mostintrigued by what can bedone with the visualimage. I feel that is whatis strongest about thework I do...the visualimage.”

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuSketchingHenson started sketchingcharacters and comicstrips as a kid.He never stopped.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuSketchingHenson started sketchingcharacters and comicstrips as a kid.He never stopped.Neither should you.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuSketchingHenson started sketchingcharacters and comicstrips as a kid.He never stopped.Neither should you.Sketching is the thinkingyou do before the doingthat you do.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuHackingJim needed to see whatthe viewer would see, sohe started using a“monitor” to view scenesfrom where he waslocated.This technique is still inuse today.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russu Bernard Tyers Belén Barros PenaHackingJim needed to see whatthe viewer would see, sohe started using a“monitor” to view scenes http://www.diymobileusabilitytesting.net/from where he waslocated.This technique is still inuse today. ~$3,000.00

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuHackingJim needed to see whatthe viewer would see, sohe started using a“monitor” to view scenesfrom where he waslocated.This technique is still inuse today.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuStoryboardingA storyboard is a graphicorganizer that visuallytells a story. Creating astoryboard helps you planyour story shot by shot.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuStoryboardingA storyboard is a graphicorganizer that visuallytells a story. Creating astoryboard helps you planyour story shot by shot.Some people evenstoryboard theirpresentations.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuA Team of OneWhat started as a one-man enterprise grew intoan internationallyacclaimed phenomenon.

Jim Henson & Design #UXMuppets | @russuA Team of OneWhat started as a one-man enterprise grew intoan internationallyacclaimed phenomenon.We do that, too.

#UXMuppets | @russuMr. Henson & Design WWJHD? What Would Jim Henson Do?

#UXMuppets | @russu Mr. Henson & Design (So What?)Jim Henson started sketching and making puppets at a young age. He read books, but not rule books. He sketched ideas. He hacked things together. He made it up as he went along. As a relatively new industry, so do we.

Thank You!Russ Unger | @russu WebVisions NYC

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