4 things I learned last week @ AgileUX NYC 2012 and IxDA New York and NYC-CHI present: New and Up and Coming Rapid Wireframing and Prototyping Tools

1. AGILE/LEAN/RAPID UX
4 things I learned last week @
AgileUX NYC 2012
and
IxDA New York and NYC-CHI Present: New and Up and Coming
Rapid Wireframing and Prototyping Tools
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2. Make user research
routine.
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3. Make user research
routine.
• Interact with users often and continuously
• Schedule weekly/biweekly routine meetings for user research/testing
• Don’t make a big deal about it: last minute recruitment and test planning
• Turn observations to recommendations quickly, avoid time intensive reports
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4. Visualize quickly.
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5. Visualize quickly.
• In a rapid timeline, the sooner ideas are visualized -> the sooner feedback returned.
• Increased visual fidelity = greater understanding to clients and users.
• How to visualize? A: sketches, wireframes, mockups, prototypes.
• How much do you prototype? A: Enough to get your point across.
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6. Shift from requirements
to hypotheses.
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7. Shift from requirements
to hypotheses.
• Requirements are dictated by the business and don’t give creative people a problem
to solve.
• Defining requirements is counterintuitive to the iterative and exploratory nature of
design.
• Hypotheses are assumptions framed as questions, which can be tested and validated.
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8. EXAMPLE
Requirement:
Create an Internet Mouse that people can use when surfing the internet on their TV from their couch.
Hypotheses:
We believe that people will pay for a device that makes it easier and more fun to surf the internet from
their living room couches in front of the TV.
... and:
We’ll know that we’re right when
1. People use our mockups without trouble
2. People offer to pay when we offer to leave the mockups with them
Example from Josh Seiden: Replacing Requirements with Hypotheses
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9. Design collaboration is a
buy in tool.
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10. Design collaboration is a
buy in tool.
• Tap into people’s pride by giving them a part of the design ownership - everyone
wants to work on something meaningful.
• Collaborating on the design streamlines the on-boarding process to keep things
moving.
• The designers role shifts to facilitator of design thinking and steward of the vision.
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11. Thanks
Extras:
Follow me on twitter @jeniferv
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