Slide deck of a short talk I gave in November 2018 at the Web Engineering Summit in Düsseldorf on how to marry Research and Design in UX departments

1. Why I want to marry my
Researcher
Sealing the deal between research and design

2. ✋

3. Hi I’m Vishall,
!

4. Hi I’m Vishall,
I am a UX Designer !

5. When you ask my
friends what I do !

6. What my architect
wife thinks I do
source: giphy.com “the IT crowd”

7. What ‘serious
people’ think I do
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8. Hardly anyone ever
pictures me doing
this
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9. Or this…
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10. What design means to me ❤

11. Greetings from:
Faculty of Industrial
Design Engineering at
the Delft University of
Technology !
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12. Industrial
Design
Engineering

13. Industrial
Design
Engineering
≠ craftmanship

14. Industrial
Design
Engineering = building solutions to
problems in an evidenced
way

15. ! Design Process !
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16. ! Design Process !
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17. "One of the greatest mistakes is
to omit the left-hand diamond
and end up solving the wrong
problem"
! Design Process !
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18. ! Design Process !
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19. "This cycle is an essential part
of good design"
♻
" Design Process "
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20. in-depth interviews,
field studies,
user diaries etc.
! Design Process !
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21. in-depth interviews,
field studies,
user diaries etc.
User testing
! Design Process !
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22. Research Research
! Design Process !
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23. Research! Design =

24. Design + Research
!

25. Design
!
Research
"

26. Design
!
Research
"POWER UP!

27. The risk of separating things is that they get separated !

28. Research > Findings > Product Owner > Roadmap > Design

29. Research > Findings > Product Owner > Roadmap > Design
!"

30. Research > Findings > Product Owner > Roadmap > Design
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31. Research > Findings > Product Owner > Roadmap > Design
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32. Research ! Design
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33. 1. Regular sharing sessions between Researchers and Designers
2. Deliver study findings with direct design recommendations
3. Implementing a product design process and make research an
integrated part of it

34. Framing
Research
Brief
Concept
Design
Test
Document
Follow up

35. Research Design
Put the User back in UX design Ensures the research findings are put into
realisation

36. Research Design!
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POWER UP!

37. Research Design!
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38. Designer, Researcher, Surfer, Dad, …
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