The User is God

The User is God
Tim Samoff

The Five Commandments of the User
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Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me

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Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience

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Thou Shalt Design With Me In Mind

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Remember My OS’s HIG and Keep It Holy

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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s HIGs

“The Bridge” Analogy
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App Developer Hell?
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How do you feel?
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Ask how a person will feel when using your app.
How do you feel?
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UX is all about…
How do you feel?
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UX is all about…
…the experiential, affective, and meaningful responses a person has when interacting with with a system.
How do you feel?
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UX is all about…
…the experiential, affective, and meaningful responses a person has when interacting with with a system.
It is a user’s perceptions of the practical aspects such as utility, ease of use and efficiency of the system.
How do you feel?
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How to approach UX…
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Be a psychologist.
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Be a psychologist.
Test your apps on objective users.
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Be a psychologist.
Test your apps on objective users.
Follow a proven methodology (HIG).
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User-Centered Design
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A release early, release often process in which designers solve problems by analyzing how users are likely to use a product.
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Important: Products should be optimized around how users can, want, or need to use the product.
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Important: Products should be optimized around how users can, want, or need to use the product.
Don’t force users to change their behavior to accommodate the product.
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Maemo
http://wiki.maemo.org/Legacy_Maemo_5_Documentation/Human_Interface_Guidelines
http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/eb8a68ba-6225-4d84-ba8f-a00e4a05ff6f/Hildon_2_2_UI_Style_Guide.html
Get to know your HIG
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Maemo
http://wiki.maemo.org/Legacy_Maemo_5_Documentation/Human_Interface_Guidelines
http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/eb8a68ba-6225-4d84-ba8f-a00e4a05ff6f/Hildon_2_2_UI_Style_Guide.html
MeeGo
http://meego.com/developers/ui-design-guidelines/handset
Get to know your HIG
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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s HIG
HIGs are OS-specific
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If you really need your app to look and work like Android or iOS…
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If you really need your app to look and work like Android or iOS…
Go there.
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http://samoff.com
Thank you!
Use me…
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