Designing for Love and Money: Balancing User Experience and Business Goals
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The document discusses designing products for both love and money. It notes that designing for love through creating memorable, delightful experiences can lead to increased customer loyalty, willingness to buy, and organic growth. However, money is also needed to sustain a business. The document provides tips on designing revenue options into the experience, encouraging good customer behavior while discouraging bad behavior, and creating virtuous cycle ecosystems where customer value and business success reinforce each other. It also discusses challenges with designing for both love and money at the product, organizational, and career levels and provides strategies to address them.
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- 1. Designing for Love and Money Fluxible 2013 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Sep 14, 2013 Larry Cornett, Ph.D. Brilliant Forge
- 4. Brilliant Forge Overview • Designing for Love • Designing for Money • Product Challenges • Organizational Challenges • Career Challenges • Closing Thoughts
- 6. Brilliant Forge • What the user experience with your product really is about. Creating value Functional Usable Useful Desirable DelightfulMeh Love
- 7. Brilliant Forge • Perceptions of warmth and competence produce feelings of admiration • Admiration corresponds to increased willingness to buy • High admiration gives way to awe • Awe leads to insane loyalty Does their love matter? Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057740812000290
- 8. Brilliant Forge How insane? Source: http://whoneedsbillboards.blogspot.ca
- 10. Brilliant Forge Love helps you grow Net Promoter Scores (NPS) explained 20-60% of the variation in organic growth rates among competitors >2x CAGR Growth (indexed) 500 100 0 200 300 400 0 5 10 15 20 Loyalty Leader Average Source: http://www.netpromotersystem.com
- 11. Brilliant Forge How do you design for love? • Enable memorable, delightful experiences • Obsess over the details and small touches • Consistently solve pain; don’t cause it • Be real, be human, be warm • Listen, observe, & use data to improve • Make it hard for people to hate you Source: Jennifer Aaker http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/aaker/
- 13. Brilliant Forge “For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service” Todd Agulnick, co-founder, XMarks Someone else is handling that Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/206479/ Xmarks_Is_Gone_But_Browser_Sync_Lives_On_.html
- 14. Brilliant Forge If you’re good at something Never do it for freeWarner Bros. Pictures
- 15. Brilliant Forge Revenue cheese Source: http://www.menshealth.com/
- 16. Brilliant Forge Revenue cheese Source: http://www.yahoo.com
- 17. Brilliant Forge Inappropriate revenue Source: www.nytimes.com
- 18. Brilliant Forge Creepy revenue Source: http://ebay.com
- 19. Brilliant Forge • What the user experience with your product really is about. I feel dirty Advertising can feel dirty Crippleware feels dirty Hidden fees are dirty It doesn’t have to be that way
- 20. Brilliant Forge Bake it in Source: http://recipeshoebox.blogspot.ca
- 21. Brilliant Forge Good profits • Fred Reicheld defines “bad profits” as earnings that come at the expense of customer relationships • In the airline industry, it’s estimated that 50% of customers feel coerced, misled and ill-treated • JetBlue only charges for a 2nd checked bag • “Analysts like to remind us that we leave over $100 million on the table every year for that policy.” - Joel Peterson, Chairman, JetBlue Airways Source: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130827063031-11846967-a-common- sense-solution-to-slow-airplane-boarding
- 22. Brilliant Forge Virtuous cycle ecosystems Product Business $ Customer Value $
- 23. Brilliant Forge • What the user experience with your product really is about. How do you design for money? • Design for love first, but… • Design revenue options into the experience • Harness the power of money • Encourage good behavior • Discourage bad behavior • Don’t be evil
- 25. Brilliant Forge •Agile and design ideation •Perceptions of ROI •Time pressure and validation •Design not always quantified •Designers aren’t vocal enough •Knowledge and understanding
- 26. Brilliant Forge Learn Analytics Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/902435-Website-Analytics-Dashboard
- 27. Brilliant Forge Talk the Talk Source: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/actionable-google-analytics/
- 28. Brilliant Forge Intentionally Design Revenue The Creation of Adam brought to you by Coca-Cola™
- 29. Brilliant Forge • What the user experience with your product really is about. Product strategy • Intentionally design for engagement and harmonious revenue • Make monetization enhance the experience • Buy time for the creative process • Earn a seat at the table, speak the language • Quantify that design drives success • Control your design destiny
- 31. Brilliant Forge •Perceptions of UX •Where UX lives •Ever-changing org models •Support from your boss •Involvement and influence
- 32. Brilliant Forge Show the Candy Source: http://chocolatecandybusiness.wordpress.com/
- 33. Brilliant Forge Reach the Top Source: http://snowbrains.com
- 34. Brilliant Forge Share the Pain Source: http://www.bhmpics.com/
- 35. Brilliant Forge • What the user experience with your product really is about. Organizational strategy • Have UX report as high as possible • Control your organizational destiny • Turn Design into a profit center • Own Design projects and engineering • Make HR and PR your allies • Meet frequently with your detractors
- 37. Brilliant Forge • Choosing the right career path • Politics, politics, politics • 70% will eventually manage others • Yet 95% said they enjoy designing • Join companies, leave bosses
- 38. Brilliant Forge Be careful… Title $ DesignYour Career Path Source: http://www.fotosearch.com/ and http://snappygardening.com
- 39. Brilliant Forge Keep What You Love Source: http://natalieedgar.wordpress.com/
- 40. Brilliant Forge Be Confident Be Bold Source:http://www.designerfounders.com
- 41. Brilliant Forge • What the user experience with your product really is about. Career strategy • Intentionally design your career • Choose your boss wisely • Keep what you love (design!) • Stay relevant and differentiated • Find powerful and connected mentors • Recognize and seize opportunity
- 42. Closing Thoughts
- 43. You Value Cost Colleagues Business Perception Designing for Love & Money Customers Boss Product Org Career
- 44. Brilliant Forge Design is your instrument Design for love to be memorable Design for revenue to control your destiny Design your organization to have influence Design your work to be successful Design your own career to be happy