Presentation at CodeCampOz April 2008

1. Pimp My App Shane Morris User Experience Evangelist Microsoft Australia

2. A little bit about me...

3. Why am I here?

4. Coders own the user experience

7. Why all the fuss?

9. User Experience

10. A Quick Poll For your project: No Yes Usability / User experience requirements set up-front? Individual(s) responsible for user experience? UI specified before coding time? Usability testing at end of project? Usability testing during project?

11. But what can I do?

12. What is the single most important thing you can do to improve your projects user experience?

13. Functionality – the natural enemy of usability

14. User Experience Design Process

15. User Experience Design Process You are here (mostly)

16. User-Centred Design (Methodology) Contextual Inquiry Affinity Diagramming Usability Testing Personas Paper Prototyping Collaborative Design Heuristic Evaluation Wireframing Cognitive Walkthrough Activity Scenarios Focus Groups Card Sorting Cultural Probes Analytics

17. User Experience Design Process You are here (mostly)

18. Interaction Design for Dev’s

19. The Blank Canvas

23. 3. Layout the elements

25. Presentation Design for Dev’s http://elephant-photos.com/images/elephant-painting-2.jpg

27. 3. Line Stuff up

28. 4. Space and Size Things Evenly

29. 5. Indicate Grouping

30. How to indicate grouping?

31. 6. Adjust Visual Weight

32. Working with UX people

33. UX Roles

34. The (most annoying) thing about design

39. Thank You Shane Morris [email_address] blogs.msdn.com/shanemo www.microsoft.com/australia/remix