It can be difficult building a user experience strategy and championing a UX-driven culture in any organization, especially if you alone have been tasked with leading the charge. To create a clear role for UX within a company, you need to establish an identity deriving from the purpose of user experience and what it can deliver.
Our three presenters have been tasked with building a UX brand. Two presenters have done so within different divisions of the same Fortune 100 company. Our third presenter has led the UX function of a global leader in application security.
Our presenters will share their successes (and failures) that have enabled them to establish strong UX brands:
* Creating core principles
* Evolving core processes
* Standardizing hiring practices and job families
* Running training sessions to demystify UX
* Establishing a UX community
* Developing a visible presence
* Collaborating with teams outside your division
* Demonstrating UX success to executives
How to build a great user experience design portfolio and tell stories that get you hired. By Troy Parke and Patrick Neeman, presented at the Seattle Information Architecture & User Experience Meetup. Thanks Misty Melissa Weaver!
Code with Empathy: UX for Engineers and UX DevelopersAnita Cheng
User experience is a hot field, but still very new for many tech companies. Let’s face it, the companies who can devote the resources for a robust UX process are few and far between! Software developers often find themselves making design decisions by necessity, which ends up complicating the product lifecycle down the road. So what can developers learn right now to improve the usability and delight of their products?
This talk was given to audiences of UXPALA members, USC students, and developers at SoCal Code Camp.
As a UX Practitioner, this is my portfolio and personal presentation deck.
Examples of my deliverables, wireframes, process flows, personas, usability analysis, and overall value proposition of what I can bring to the table.
I bring the value add of 30 years in business, actual Business Analyst and Project Management experience for major brands and companies like AT&T Mobility, Verizon, Verizon FiOS TV, GameStop, Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, United Health Group, Microsoft, Copart, DAI, Eli Lilly, Verizon, First Choice Power, Nissan, Jackson Hewitt, Pep Boys, Miami Dolphins, Friendly’s Ice Cream, PepsiCo, Denny’s, BMW, Terminix, Sauza, Frito-Lay, Proctor & Gamble, Sabre, Worldspan, De Beers, Nestle, IBM and FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program.
How to build a great user experience design portfolio and tell stories that get you hired. By Troy Parke and Patrick Neeman, presented at the Seattle Information Architecture & User Experience Meetup. Thanks Misty Melissa Weaver!
Code with Empathy: UX for Engineers and UX DevelopersAnita Cheng
User experience is a hot field, but still very new for many tech companies. Let’s face it, the companies who can devote the resources for a robust UX process are few and far between! Software developers often find themselves making design decisions by necessity, which ends up complicating the product lifecycle down the road. So what can developers learn right now to improve the usability and delight of their products?
This talk was given to audiences of UXPALA members, USC students, and developers at SoCal Code Camp.
As a UX Practitioner, this is my portfolio and personal presentation deck.
Examples of my deliverables, wireframes, process flows, personas, usability analysis, and overall value proposition of what I can bring to the table.
I bring the value add of 30 years in business, actual Business Analyst and Project Management experience for major brands and companies like AT&T Mobility, Verizon, Verizon FiOS TV, GameStop, Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, United Health Group, Microsoft, Copart, DAI, Eli Lilly, Verizon, First Choice Power, Nissan, Jackson Hewitt, Pep Boys, Miami Dolphins, Friendly’s Ice Cream, PepsiCo, Denny’s, BMW, Terminix, Sauza, Frito-Lay, Proctor & Gamble, Sabre, Worldspan, De Beers, Nestle, IBM and FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program.
I am self-taught UX Designer and 3 years of experience in designing User Interface, Websites, Dashboards, Mobile Apps, Digital graphics and Corporate/Business Branding. Primary objectives are to continue to explore, develop and enjoy the challenge of design and technological advancements,to seek perfection and to expand my creative capacity in a professional style.
Here's a deck I put together for our weekly learning seminar at Verbal+Visual.
Special thanks for General Assembly, my instructors Luke Miller, Rashida White, and Nevan Scott.
http://www.verbalplusvisual.com/interaction-design-rapid-prototyping/
Why your product team should use User Story Mapping to link user research to ...John Murray
How well do you think your product team takes what they learn from their users and puts it into the next iteration of the product? How well does your team come to a common understanding of what the next iteration of the product will look like and then build a product that reflects that common understanding?
These two problems — improving your product with user research and effective team collaboration — can both be solved with a design tool called User Story Mapping.
In this session, attendees will hear how to apply User Story Mapping to connect user research to user stories for Design Thinking and Agile Development and the experience our teams have with the method. Attendees will get a taste of going through running a simple user story mapping workshop so that they will feel comfortable taking the process back to their business.
Building a UX Process at Salesforce that Promotes Focus and Creativityuxpin
You'll learn:
- How Salesforce designed a large-scale UX process across teams
- Why certain design activities were chosen over others
- How to preserve design quality at scale
Great team work takes careful and deliberate design and intention. It doesn't happen by chance. From hiring T-shaped designers and developers with complementary specialized skills and shared values to cultivating a user-focused process and emphasizing continuous learning and improvement, building a great Lean UX team is short of an accident.
When every single team member puts their specialized skills to good work while collaborating with each other day in and day out, magic ensues. Fostering a one-team environment across functions, geographic sites, and even departments is the single most powerful motivator.
Going from Here to There: Transitioning into a UX Careerdpanarelli
A lot of people are curious about transitioning into the field of User Experience Design (UX). In this talk, I talk about a few different ways that you can transition into a UX career, be it grad school, night classes, or the ol' school of hard knocks, backed up by case studies. This talk was given at NoVA UX Meetup in the offices of AddThis, hosted by organizer Jim Lane.
An introduction to Lean UX, grounded in Lean Startup and Agile principles. A starting point for shifting today's organizations towards a safer sustainable approach to product design and development.
Lean UX relies on a simple premise – think -> make -> evaluate.
It is a business strategy that thrives on feedback from the audience instead of the head honcho at a top tech firm. It represents democratization of design, ensuring faster (and more meaningful) design changes to products where deliverables aren’t important but the overall user experience is. Simply put, its focus on users having say over how the product/app/service performs is an interesting process to say the least.
Designing a Sustainable Enterprise UX Processuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to select the right UX activities and plan resources appropriately.
- How to evolve your process as you grow.
- How to conduct proper discovery, transition from waterfall to Agile UX, and more.
Imagine if designers conversed with you in a way that felt like object-oriented programming. Imagine if they handed off a design where, page after page, the objects you needed to code were edged in neon, so clearly defined they popped off the wireframe or comp. Imagine those objects were consistently presented; no one-off cases or guesswork required. Imagine you could take a design and almost create an ERD or rough out an API with it.
Well, good news. There’s no need to imagine it. It exists, and it’s called Object-Oriented UX (OOUX).
OOUX is a design methodology that helps us define usable, consistent products that naturally align with end users’ mental models. Similar to OOP, it asks us to define the objects in the real-world problem domain and design the information and relationships in each object before designing how the user might manipulate them. It's a powerful tool for any digital team, it's relatively easy to do, and it pays dividends fast.
Whether you are a developer, a designer, a content modeler, or someone who has influence over digital teams, OOUX offers a new and exciting option to add to your toolkit that will allow you to deliver better digital projects, quicker and more efficiently, and at a higher level of quality than ever before.
Presentation originally given at THAT Conference 2019
Accessibility Buy-In for Inclusive Product WeekKat K. Richards
Get buy-in for accessibility work by knowing your audience and their priorities. With UX and allyship skills, Kat will discuss effective ways to pitch accessibility. Learn how to sell this to internal teams, senior management and even to clients, and be one step closer to building more inclusive solutions.
This was a presentation made to Refresh Boyne in which Patrick discusses why User Experience design can fail. How not to engage with UX teams. Too often UX is done last or it's a rubber stamp step - especially around accessibility. That's when it fails. Patrick will show how to get it right.
Top Trends In Product Design: Outcomes, Understanding Customers, and Building...Jeremy Johnson
While some organizations are still grappling with moving to Agile or hiring their first UX Designer, others are moving fast to embrace methods that have been proven to generate success. Are you still creating product roadmaps? Are you investing in understanding your customers? Are your technology platforms built for experimentation? Come hear how organizations are achieving success, and how you can help your organization move in the right direction.
This presentation was originally given at the Big Design Conference in Dallas, TX on 9/19/2015
I am self-taught UX Designer and 3 years of experience in designing User Interface, Websites, Dashboards, Mobile Apps, Digital graphics and Corporate/Business Branding. Primary objectives are to continue to explore, develop and enjoy the challenge of design and technological advancements,to seek perfection and to expand my creative capacity in a professional style.
Here's a deck I put together for our weekly learning seminar at Verbal+Visual.
Special thanks for General Assembly, my instructors Luke Miller, Rashida White, and Nevan Scott.
http://www.verbalplusvisual.com/interaction-design-rapid-prototyping/
Why your product team should use User Story Mapping to link user research to ...John Murray
How well do you think your product team takes what they learn from their users and puts it into the next iteration of the product? How well does your team come to a common understanding of what the next iteration of the product will look like and then build a product that reflects that common understanding?
These two problems — improving your product with user research and effective team collaboration — can both be solved with a design tool called User Story Mapping.
In this session, attendees will hear how to apply User Story Mapping to connect user research to user stories for Design Thinking and Agile Development and the experience our teams have with the method. Attendees will get a taste of going through running a simple user story mapping workshop so that they will feel comfortable taking the process back to their business.
Building a UX Process at Salesforce that Promotes Focus and Creativityuxpin
You'll learn:
- How Salesforce designed a large-scale UX process across teams
- Why certain design activities were chosen over others
- How to preserve design quality at scale
Great team work takes careful and deliberate design and intention. It doesn't happen by chance. From hiring T-shaped designers and developers with complementary specialized skills and shared values to cultivating a user-focused process and emphasizing continuous learning and improvement, building a great Lean UX team is short of an accident.
When every single team member puts their specialized skills to good work while collaborating with each other day in and day out, magic ensues. Fostering a one-team environment across functions, geographic sites, and even departments is the single most powerful motivator.
Going from Here to There: Transitioning into a UX Careerdpanarelli
A lot of people are curious about transitioning into the field of User Experience Design (UX). In this talk, I talk about a few different ways that you can transition into a UX career, be it grad school, night classes, or the ol' school of hard knocks, backed up by case studies. This talk was given at NoVA UX Meetup in the offices of AddThis, hosted by organizer Jim Lane.
An introduction to Lean UX, grounded in Lean Startup and Agile principles. A starting point for shifting today's organizations towards a safer sustainable approach to product design and development.
Lean UX relies on a simple premise – think -> make -> evaluate.
It is a business strategy that thrives on feedback from the audience instead of the head honcho at a top tech firm. It represents democratization of design, ensuring faster (and more meaningful) design changes to products where deliverables aren’t important but the overall user experience is. Simply put, its focus on users having say over how the product/app/service performs is an interesting process to say the least.
Designing a Sustainable Enterprise UX Processuxpin
You'll learn:
- How to select the right UX activities and plan resources appropriately.
- How to evolve your process as you grow.
- How to conduct proper discovery, transition from waterfall to Agile UX, and more.
Imagine if designers conversed with you in a way that felt like object-oriented programming. Imagine if they handed off a design where, page after page, the objects you needed to code were edged in neon, so clearly defined they popped off the wireframe or comp. Imagine those objects were consistently presented; no one-off cases or guesswork required. Imagine you could take a design and almost create an ERD or rough out an API with it.
Well, good news. There’s no need to imagine it. It exists, and it’s called Object-Oriented UX (OOUX).
OOUX is a design methodology that helps us define usable, consistent products that naturally align with end users’ mental models. Similar to OOP, it asks us to define the objects in the real-world problem domain and design the information and relationships in each object before designing how the user might manipulate them. It's a powerful tool for any digital team, it's relatively easy to do, and it pays dividends fast.
Whether you are a developer, a designer, a content modeler, or someone who has influence over digital teams, OOUX offers a new and exciting option to add to your toolkit that will allow you to deliver better digital projects, quicker and more efficiently, and at a higher level of quality than ever before.
Presentation originally given at THAT Conference 2019
Accessibility Buy-In for Inclusive Product WeekKat K. Richards
Get buy-in for accessibility work by knowing your audience and their priorities. With UX and allyship skills, Kat will discuss effective ways to pitch accessibility. Learn how to sell this to internal teams, senior management and even to clients, and be one step closer to building more inclusive solutions.
This was a presentation made to Refresh Boyne in which Patrick discusses why User Experience design can fail. How not to engage with UX teams. Too often UX is done last or it's a rubber stamp step - especially around accessibility. That's when it fails. Patrick will show how to get it right.
Top Trends In Product Design: Outcomes, Understanding Customers, and Building...Jeremy Johnson
While some organizations are still grappling with moving to Agile or hiring their first UX Designer, others are moving fast to embrace methods that have been proven to generate success. Are you still creating product roadmaps? Are you investing in understanding your customers? Are your technology platforms built for experimentation? Come hear how organizations are achieving success, and how you can help your organization move in the right direction.
This presentation was originally given at the Big Design Conference in Dallas, TX on 9/19/2015
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lka7nsDsZk8
There’s real evidence that Agile software engineering projects work better than waterfall. In Silicon Valley, Agile is the de-facto standard for innovating new products. But an Agile project needs good product management and good UX design to succeed. Fitting UX in with product management and Agile can be uncomfortable for UX designers. Once you get it, though, you’ll never want to work any other way. We’ll look at:
- Why Agile works well for innovation and for software delivery
- What product management is and why your software product can’t succeed without it
- The different product phases: Discover, expand and exploit
- The role of UX in each phase
- Setting up hypotheses and metrics to keep Agile teams on track
Your Code Is A Waste Of Time (if you don't ask why you are writing it in the ...Amber Matthews
Talk about Lean UX given at Hong Kong Codeaholics #codeconf 2014.
30 minute overview of the foundations of UX, design thinking, agile methodology, lean startup. Looking at assumptions, hypothesis statements, personas, journey maps, measurement and UX ≠ UI.
Top 3 ways to use your UX team - producttank DFW MeetupJeremy Johnson
As a product owner or manager how should you be using your User Experience team? In this quick talk I go over the top three ways to use your UX team to support you in building better products.
Kalev Peekna, Managing Director of Strategy at One North, discusses the importance of finding a balance between brand-centric and user-centric marketing in this East Coast vs. West Coast analysis.
From the 2014 Experience Lab: Reimagine Marketing. To watch a video of this presentation, visit http://bit.ly/1zViNx0.
Presented at Agile Singapore 2016
https://confengine.com/agile-singapore-2016/proposal/2632/user-experience-for-product-managers
Why is UX important for Product Managers? Gain an understanding of the concept and discipline of user experience - defined, explained and made actionable for Product Managers.
Learn how UX tools and artifacts can help you make better product decisions, and how to overcome common objections to UX processes.
Outline/structure of the Session
- The Value of User Experience (UX) beyond screens and interfaces
- Discover how UX is Critical to your business and bottom line, including ROI of UX
- Developing a UX Strategy Blueprint
- Learning to Integrate UX Data points into your product development decision-making process using personas
- Learn how to overcome common business objections to implementing UX processes
Learning Outcome
Takeaways
- Understand the value of user experience, beyond just screens and interfaces
- Discover how user experience is critical to your business and the bottom line, including the ROI of UX
- Learn to integrate UX data points into your product development decision-making process using personas
- Learn how to overcome common business objections to implementing UX processes
Target Audience
Product Heads, Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, Team Leads
Presentation from the 2014 Product, Customer and User Experience Summit in Chicago on June 16, 2014. The presentation discusses the context for UX as strategy, provides an example of applying a UX approach to informing your business and experience strategy, measuring the impact of UX and what's needed to sustain and build upon the value of UX within an organization.
Increasingly, companies succeed or fail not on superior technology but on superior user experience design. This talk looks at the ROI of UX design with three examples of startups that leveraged design to disrupt their fields and beat the competition.
How User Experience Addresses Unconscious BiasMarcus Finley
Presentation for NCT4G.
User experience design is one approach to addressing the issues of unconscious bias often found in today’s technology. Unconscious bias is an often overlooked and undervalued aspect of UX design since the little details seem to be so minor to us, however these minor details can have large and lasting impacts. Designing a user experience without paying attention to unconscious biases is leaving out small changes that, in turn, alienate large demographics of people and shrink your client base. On the other hand, making these small changes could be just the kickstart your product needs to expand and catch on within other demographics. This presentation will detail how to identify and overcome unconscious bias in order to achieve the maximum client or consumer base possible.
Marcus Finley, Twitter: @marcusafinley, Instagram: @findigital
FIN. Digital
Concurrent Session
Speaker Bio
Marcus Finley is the CEO and Founder of FIN Digital, a full service application development firm in Washington DC. Marcus graduated from Florida State University where he majored in Mechanical Engineering and Public Administration. Marcus is a certified Scrum Master with expert knowledge of a number programming languages, user experience design and web/mobile application development. Marcus has managed over $3 million dollars of contracted technology development and strategy projects for with an average project budget of $200,000. In his professional roles he has provided technology strategies and user experiences to achieve client’s goals. He has help developed UX practices, lead a number of UX workshops with clients and guided companies with emerging needs of validating applications. He co-founded a Meetup called Color of Tech to bring together a diverse group of technology professionals to network and thrive.
Designing for Digital: Processes + Planning for Powerful SolutionsLaura Baxter
Girl Geeks Toronto Meetup - November 2013
Navigate the complexities of digital media development with an understanding of: strategic planning activities and experience design methodologies, and how they intersect and contribute to the successful execution of digital media products.
• The standard digital media project process
• Why it doesn’t work
• The importance of strategic planning
• A more collaborative approach
• What this really means
UX at Canadian Tire: Baking empathy into projectsUserTesting
Steve McGuire, Associate Manager of Usability and Optimization at Canadian Tire, shares how his team uses empathy to drive amazing UX and how to spread this empathy to other team members in the user testing process.
You'll learn:
- How having empathy for customers helps Canadian Tire better understand their frustrations and delights
- How involving team members in the user testing process gets everyone working towards creating frictionless user experiences
- How empathy for other team members and stakeholders benefits the final product
Anatomy of a digital project seminar - 8th November, LondonPrecedent
From the sharing economy to the internet of things, digital transformation has become a reality. It is impacting society at every level: from consumer behaviour through to reshaping entire industries. The challenge for many organisations is knowing how to begin.
Our Global Managing Director and Project Management Director provide recommendations on how best to take those first small steps towards beginning your organisation’s programme of transformation, using real case study examples.
UX STRAT 2014: Tim Loo's Workshop - Experience Visioning & RoadmappingTim Loo
This presentation is a shareable version of my workshop presentation from UX STRAT 2014, Boulder, Colorado.
In this workshop, we discussed the purpose of vision and roadmap in the experience strategy and the importance of working together with both business stakeholders and customers in the planning process. We covered practical definitions, skills and techniques:
- What is an experience vision?
- What are the ingredients for a great experience visions?
- Running visioning workshops with stakeholders
- Communicating experience vision through storytelling
- What is an experience roadmap?
- Creating a delivery roadmap
Product development - From Idea to Reality - VYE Leader TalkBui Hai An
Product development - From Idea to Reality - Viet Youth Entrepreneur Bootcamp Leader Talk.
Sharing to help VYE Boot-camper solidify their ideas and prepare for better pitch.
UXPA 2023: Start Strong - Lessons learned from associate programs to platform...UXPA International
Imagine creating experiences for your rookie designers’ first couple years that are rewarding, enriching, and full of learning — without taking all your time or energy to manage. We’ll share techniques any team leader can put into practice using real-life examples from associate programs, apprenticeships, and internships.
Topics include onboarding, varied work challenges, developing multiple capabilities, buddy systems, group sharing, guest speakers, time with executives, and mentorship. We’ll also share how to operationalize learning, soft skills like communication and collaboration, setting boundaries, time management, achieving deep work, and more skills we all wish we were explicitly taught early on.
We’ll focus on modern-day associate programs, but even if you can’t create a full-fledged program, you’ll leave this session with ideas to use with your fledgling professionals. The benefits go beyond efficiency; it’s a foundation for culture, camaraderie, autonomy, and mastery.
UXPA 2023: Disrupting Inaccessibility: Applying A11Y-Focused Discovery & Idea...UXPA International
Digital advances are being made at a rapid-fire pace, yet disability inclusivity continues to fall short of the digital revolution. As the number of people living with disabilities rises, the time to take digital accessibility to the next level is now. Let’s disrupt inaccessibility together! Come hear about a multi-part discovery research and ideation project informing foundational UX designs for our customers. You’ll get insights from our unique study, which are widely applicable across industries, and walk away with tips and inspiration to kick off your own accessibility-focused discovery and ideation. Only YOU can prevent inaccessibility – are you in?
User experience can be drastically elevated by combining data science insights with user-based insights from research. Data analytics on its own can make themes and correlations difficult to explain and to provide accurate recommendations. For example, themes identified via large global surveys and usage data can be better understood with UX insights from focused user research, such as user interviews and/or cognitive walkthroughs. This presentation will highlight the complimentary nature of data science and UX and will focus on the benefits of bringing the two disciplines together. This will be buttressed with practical examples of enterprise projects and applications that combined data and skills from the two disciplines, guidance on how the two disciplines can better work together, and the skills needed to improve as a UX professional when working with data science teams.
UXPA 2023: UX Fracking: Using Mixed Methods to Extract Hidden InsightsUXPA International
Users do not always accurately describe what they mean or feel. There are many reasons for this, ranging from politeness to poor introspection, to lack of sufficient technical vocabulary. Fortunately, UX researchers have tools in their trade to deduce what was really meant. We call this UX Fracking, a mixed methods approach that is optimized for extracting hidden user insights. We will illustrate the dangers of inadequate, superficial research, and how this may lead to outcomes incapable of addressing the users’ core issues. We will explore ways to avoid these pitfalls by leveraging mixed research methods to test hypotheses about the users’ intent and needs. This starts with a thorough understanding of who the user is, their goals, and how they work today, to an approach that combines surveys, interviews, and comment analysis with behavioral observation, and finally, validating the newly discovered user insights with the users themselves.
UXPA 2023: Learn how to get over personas by swiping right on user rolesUXPA International
This session walks through the concept of user roles as an alternative to personas as a means to generate and disseminate user insights for product development teams. We will describe the tools and methods used to create a research database organized by user roles, along with examples and short exercises to help attendees think through user roles within their own context.
By the end of the session, attendees should be aware of tools and approaches for:
Organizing user research information in a database
Disseminating user role information to product and design teams
Managing a user roles database as part of a long term UX Research program
If you’re ready to ditch personas but don’t know how, this session is for you!
We will present a case study that details our approach for replacing user personas with user roles for a multi-national SAAS company. We will take the audience on a journey that starts with an executive request for personas, travels through the tribulations of realizing personas suck, and concludes with convincing others to accept a new and innovative way to understand the people who use the product. Our key message is that personas lack real value for organizations that already understand the importance of empathizing with users. Building user-centered products requires easily accessible and well organized user insights. We will discuss defining users through a process of stakeholder consultation and content review, and structuring data around Jobs to Be Done and product interactions. We will also discuss the dissemination of user roles in our organization using relational databases, interactive dashboards and online wikis. Spoiler alert, our stakeholders loved user roles!
UXPA 2023: Experience Maps - A designer's framework for working in Agile team...UXPA International
Agile Methodology refers to software design and development methodologies centered around the idea of iterative design and development, where requirements and concepts evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. Thus, Agile enables teams to deliver value faster, with greater quality and predictability, and greater aptitude to respond to change. With evolving product features every design sprint, designers & researchers find it difficult to follow the design process. This sometimes leads to designs delivered in haste or sub-par design artifacts which result in UX debt. UX debt is accumulated when design teams take actions or shortcuts to expedite the delivery of a piece of functionality or a project which later needs to be refactored. It is the result of prioritizing speedy delivery of design to the development team over a perfect experience journey. Experience Maps is a great tool to practice UX in Agile as well as manage UX Debt.
UXPA 2023: UX Enterprise Story: How to apply a UX process to a company withou...UXPA International
How to build a UX Department from scratch, in an environment they think UX people do social media posters and posts! An agile implementation just started, and people are moving from a waterfall and ad-hoc mindset to agility. In this session, I will talk about my Journey to establish a UX Department for a company that is part of a global brand, but this local branch just started the digital transformation movement. Challenges like: spreading awareness and educating people about UX, hiring the right team, defining the right team structure, establishing workflow and day-to-day operations, and applying localization (non-western culture).
UXPA 2023: High-Fives over Zoom: Creating a Remote-First Creative TeamUXPA International
I started my current job in March of 2020. Many of us remember something clearly about the month that COVID started to shut things down. I remember being surprised to hear that my new on-site-only job would be starting in my living room over zoom. How do you lead a design team when none of the team members live near each other and creativity is highly collaborative? Taking from over a decade of working in HR software, I knew whatever I did needed to put people first. That what employees love about a job is often deeper than the work, it’s the culture, the relationships and people they work with. It’s the feeling that their work has value, and their contribution matters. In this talk I will walk though some of the rituals and best practices I have learned over the last two years building a remote-first creative team.
UXPA 2023: Behind the Bias: Dissecting human shortcuts for better research & ...UXPA International
As humans, we are biased by design. Our intricate and fascinating brains have developed shortcuts through centuries of human evolution. They reduce an unimaginable load of paralyzing decisions, keep us alive, and help us navigate this complex world. Now, these life saving biases affect how we behave with modern technology. Understanding some of the theories and reasons why these biases exist is the key to unlocking their power. In this workshop we will cover some theories around how the brain works. We will review some of our mental shortcuts, take a look at some common biases, and learn how they affect our users, our research, and our designs. Lastly we will review some advantages of biases, and ways to identify and reduce bias. This workshop is targeted for designers who do their own research, and researchers looking to learn more about removing bias from their studies.
UXPA 2023 Poster: Improving the Internal and External User Experience of a Fe...UXPA International
UXPA 2023 Poster: Improving the Internal and External User Experience of a Federal Government Legacy Application Using User Experience and Agile Principles
Are you new to UX management, or thinking of getting into management? Then this talk is for you. After reading countless books, attending countless trainings, mentoring and being menteed, nothing quite prepared me for management like my first year. I’ll share with you what I wish they’d told me. I’ll also share my process for generating team research roadmaps, establishing team values, keeping employees motivated, and not burning out.
UXPA 2023: Redesigning An Automotive Feature from Gasoline to Electric Vehicl...UXPA International
Join us for an interaction design case study from the automotive industry. We created a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) for a vehicle feature that provides household-levels of power in electrical outlets for our customers to use at work and play. This case study will reveal: · Our debate of re-using version 1.0’s HMI vs designing a new user interface for the electric vehicle—when to break with consistency and why? · User research we conducted to guide our early design concept. · Paper prototypes we created to support our usability testing of the concept with vehicle owners. · How we solved internal debate over the interaction design in moving from internal combustion vehicles to electric vehicles. * Advice to help you evangelize user-centered design that is also brand-centered for a new product.
Acorn Recovery: Restore IT infra within minutesIP ServerOne
Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
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0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Doctoral Symposium at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Software Test...
Building a UX Brand
1. Building a
UX Brand
Bob Thomas
Director of User Research
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Alison Decker
Manager of Product Research and Design
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Jen McGinn
Senior Director of User Experience
CA Technologies
UXPA International Puerto Rico
June 28, 2018
BOSTON
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What is a brand?
“A brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or
other feature that distinguishes an organization
or product from its rivals in the eyes of the
customer.”
– Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand
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Then it communicated
a message – a
commitment to one
product or company
compared to another
That is, a brand is
the commitment
a company makes
to its customers
What is a brand?
A brand started as
an identifying mark
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Coke changed how soda
bottles looked… as a way to
stand out from competitors
What is a brand?
Sources: Coca-Cola and The Brand Evolution. The images used here are for personal, non-commercial use.
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1. Creating core principles
2. Evolving core processes
3. Developing a visible presence
4. Hiring the best people for you
Establishing a brand commitment
#UXPA2018 @deckerdynamic
5. Demystifying user experience
6. Collaborating with other teams
7. Establishing a UX community
8. Demonstrating UX success to execs
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• For us, our UX brand is:
1. a commitment our UX managers make to employees we manage
2. a commitment our UX team makes to our organization
3. a commitment our UX team makes to our customers
Core principles for your brand
1. Creating Core Principles #UXPA2018 @bobthomas
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• So if a brand is the commitment a company makes to its customers…
• …And keeping to our original definition of a brand as what distinguishes
us from our rivals in the eyes of the customer
• Then what commitment does Liberty Mutual Insurance
make to its customers that differentiates my company?
Commitment of your brand
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OUR COMPANY’S BRAND
We believe progress happens when
people feel secure.
OUR UX TEAM’S BRAND
We guide people through uncertainty
by creating experiences that make
them feel secure.
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• How do you establish your brand?
▪ Determine what you stand for
▪ Make sure everyone knows it
Creating core principles
1. Creating Core Principles #UXPA2018 @bobthomas
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• Determine what you stand for
▪ “Usability Bob”
▪ “Research early and often”
Creating core principles
1. Creating Core Principles #UXPA2018 @bobthomas
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1. Don’t lead with the method, lead with the goals
2. Findings are based on the behavior observed
3. Research with project teams
4. Finding problems is a victory, not a failure
5. Know who your users are
Creating core principles
1. Creating Core Principles #UXPA2018 @bobthomas
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Challenges coming in as the first UX executive:
• UX was equated with UI
• UX + UA was a newly formed group
• UX activities were “contained” in the development
group
• UX wasn’t tied to business outcomes
Creating core principles
1. Creating Core Principles #UXPA2018 @jenmcginn
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• UX+UA team needed a shared
mission + vision
• Used Gamestorming
techniques
• Educated the rest of the
company on our new span of
control and connection to the
business
Creating core principles
1. Creating Core Principles #UXPA2018 @jenmcginn
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Creating core principles
1. Creating Core Principles #UXPA2018 @jenmcginn
UX+UA Vision
To make Veracode’s user experience
a competitive differentiator by
exceeding customer expectations at
every touchpoint.
We help our customers be heroes so
they are advocates of Veracode’s
software solutions.
UX+UA Mission
We simplify the process of
securing the world’s software
by using research-based
design practices.
We support our customers’ success
by designing elegant solutions to
complex security problems.
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• Collaborating with
development
• Articulating that
process
• Articulating our
own processes
Evolving core processes
2. Evolving Core Processes #UXPA2018 @jenmcginn
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• Collaborating with
development & PM
• Articulating that
process
• Showing the value
of that new process
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Evolving core processes
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• Publicize your wins…
• …And shout them out
Developing a visible presence
3. Developing a Visible Presence #UXPA2018 @bobthomas
29. Primary Persona
Usability Bob
GOALS: What is he trying to accomplish?
BACKGROUND: Who is this person?
TASKS/BEHAVIOR: What does he do?
● Director of User Research
● Has worked at Liberty Mutual Insurance for 10 years
● Believes in customer research as the foundation for design decisions
● Is self-directed. Likes to be in control of the situation
● Has a kick-ass team of 8 user researchers
● Has anger management issues, but is working on it
● Explain the benefits of customer research and usability companywide
● Facilitate design thinking workshops for every eCommerce team
● Ensure that user research is part of the development process
● Incorporate research into every sprint
● Scale the culture of user research (so that anyone can do it)
“Research early and often”
FRUSTRATIONS: What are his pain points?
● Older than the hills
● One wife, one cat
● Lives in a condo in Chelsea, 5 miles from Boston
● Owns a 4WD Subaru (this is New England, dammit)
● Many accidents and claims (do not ever ride with him!)
● Martial artist, 3rd degree black belt
● Starting with the usability method, not the project goals
● Hearing “we already know what our users want”
● Hearing “user research takes too long”
● Hearing “usability testing is too expensive”
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Company-wide personas
• Printed and framed
• 24” x 36” and 8” x 12”
• Hang in Sales, Support,
UX, Development
• Burlington, MA,
London, UK,
San Francisco, CA
Publicize your work
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• Brand campaign for UX
• Laptop stickers to
encourage developers and
scrum masters to follow our
process
• Given to UX Guild members
Publicize your work
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These video logs give you
an inside look into the role
Research and Design play
in our new way of working.
These four episodes of
“High Contrast” are part of
our new vlog series where
Bob Thomas and Stacey
Messier discuss how
Design and Research are
helping shape our culture
to the Digital Garage.
Publicize your message
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Hiring the best people for you
• Align your job description with the qualities that fit your brand
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OUR UX TEAM’S BRAND
We guide people through uncertainty
by creating experiences that make
them feel secure.
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• Align your job description with the qualities that fit your brand
▪ Coaching
▪ Collaboration
▪ Engagement
Hiring the best people for you
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• Recruit interns from college and graduate school programs
• Leverage apprenticeship programs (technical development program)
Establish your networks
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To increase the understanding of human-centered research and design
methodologies by providing hands-on training to professionals involved in
the product development lifecycle so that they are better enabled to
represent the user’s needs.
UX apprenticeship
5.Training to Demystify User Experience #UXPA2018 @deckerdynamic
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• Quantitative data
▪ Data analytics
▪ Market research
Collaborating with other teams
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• Business Cases
▪ Launched a new project to create a
new experience for customers to
manage their claims based on data
analytics
Collaborating with other teams
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• Use Cases
▪ Recruited participants who would most likely file and
manage property claims online based on highest-
frequent, lowest-severity scenarios
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Collaborating with other teams
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What do executives care about?
According to Jared Spool, there are only 5 things
that executives care about:
• Increasing revenues
• Decreasing costs
• Increasing new business/marketshare
• Increasing revenue from existing customers
• Increasing shareholder value
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https://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/06/08/why-i-cant-
convince-executives-to-invest-in-ux-and-neither-can-you/
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Net Promoter Score (NPS): How do
we increase it?
• Analyzed all of the
qualitative feedback
• Categorized the comments +
sentiment analysis
• Segmented by persona
• Found that a small number
of issues resulted in 50% of
the negative feedback
• Focused engineering efforts
on resolving those top
dissatisfiers
Increasing customer satisfaction
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@deckerdynamic
State of UX action items
Most Common
UX Research
& Design
Deliverables
% UXers Facing
Challenges
Gaining Buy-In
Full-Time
UX Role vs. Part-
Time/ Non UX
Role
Location in
org.
structure
Top
Deliverables
UXers Want
Top
Challenges
Facing UXers
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1. Creating core principles
2. Evolving core processes
3. Developing a visible presence
4. Hiring the best people for you
5. Demystifying user experience
6. Collaborating with other teams
7. Establishing a UX community
8. Demonstrating UX success to execs
Establishing a brand commitment
Bob Thomas
Director of User Research
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Alison Decker
Manager of Product Research and Design
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Jen McGinn
Senior Director of User
Experience CA Technologies