What is UX? What is the value of investing in product design in the software development & entrepreneurship process? Peep my talk at the Africa Developer Conference by Gebeya at UNECA Addis Ababa, October 2019.
5. Agenda
Souvenir Design & Designers
Resources
-Design doc
Product Design
Product Designer
-Be fake by Pablo
● What’s UX? What’a UI?
● Industry norm
-Who’s a designer?
-Why they are key in the product dvt?
6. What is UX? WHAT IS UI?
ELEMENTS
Useful Desirable
Accessible Credible
Findable Usable Valuable
MOTIVATIONS
Love Affiliation Sex
Status Justice Curiosity
X: Sticky note culture, less support work & an extra buck.
I: Delightful & usable. If you have to explain it… it’s not
that good.
7. Industry Norm
● Shopping list of features
● Meticulous PM vs will it succeed?
● Ship now now now!
● Zero user research
● Abeg, what is MVP?
Tip
Design is expensive,
ignoring design is more
expensive!. Pick a
struggle!
8. Who’s a designer?
Maybe this will help...
Tip
* By failing to prepare
we’re prg to fail.
Benjamin franklin!
That guy you pay less than your engineer...
Sometimes you wish they were an engineer
Tell x to make the logo bigger
They’re not invited to the strategy meeting just yet
They look deep but are they just artsy or troubled.
9. Fact 1, 2, 3!
McKinsey business
value of design : Strong
correlation between
design practices &
superior business
performance.
Over 60% of startups
fail in the first 1-5 yrs.
Hard-to-use software =
millions of dollars in
technical support.