2. Paul Stevens
UX Lead at AutoTrader
7 Years senior UX at moneysupermarket.com
Studied Graphic Design
3.
4.
5. 2010 7,000,000
used car sales
4.4 avg customer
dealership visits
30,000,000
selling opportunities
2014 7,000,000
used car sales
2.2 avg customer
dealership visits
15,000,000
selling opportunities
2018 ?
Digital has fundamentally changed our
life’s, the way we shop and do our jobs.
6. How we work
We don’t have departments
A typical work flow (maybe)
Business
Requirement
Marketing UX Design
I.T
(agile)
Release
(MVP)
7. How we work
Squad Name
Product Delivery Tech Design Marketing
Tribes and Squads?
Lead Developers UX
Visual
ProductOwner
QA
9. Our Lean UX work flow
Ideas
BuildLearn
Measure
• Define a business problem
• What’s the desired outcome?
• Declare your assumptions
• Hypothesize and test
• Make an MVP
• Test
• Repeat
10. Our Lean UX work flow
We believe that by doing ‘X’
Will result in ‘Y’
We will know this is true when ‘Z happens’
11. Outcomes not outputs
“We’re not getting enough email data. Lets make the email sign up
box more prominent on the home page.”
We believe that by asking customers for their email on the detail
pages of a product.(Rather than the homepage)
Will result in more email sign ups because they are more
engaged in the journey.
We will no this is true when we get more email sign ups.
14. Our Lean UX work flow
Ideas
BuildLearn
Measure
• Define a business problem
• What’s the desired outcome?
• Declare your assumptions
• Hypothesize and test
• Make an MVP
• Test
• Repeat
This is not me saying how you should do UX. it how we are evolving and hopefully you’ll take something useful away from it
Auto trader simple classifieds model. make money from Car dealers paying to advertise.
BUT Its all about Data that we provide!
Auto Trader formed in 1977 as Thames Valley Trader.
Making the switch to purely digital in 2013.
11 million unique visitors a month
Number one MARKETPLACE for car BUYERS in UK
Much more transparency now online, you can work out what you should pay for a car.
I want to focus on car dealers.
Its all about Data!
waterfall - agile
Cross functional teams.
Everyone has an input to ux
Build is not code it’s sketches first.
Fail fast, fail cheap
outcome not output.
Output email sign up on every page.
Outcome more email sign ups
Fail fast, fail cheap
Thousands of pounds a month
make their money from our systems - can’t run with out us
Facebook, Twitter - angry at change
ethnographic studies and UX strategy
we will use invision, Marvel, POP or sometimes some quick code spikes hacked together.
Can they use it?
Do they actually want to use it?
using the word think suggests you have to know something about the subject.
take a note taker with you. ANYONE maybe a developer to get them to understand a customer.
AB testing, Formstack, Hot Jar, Forums
Doing as little as you can to get maximum learning with benefit for the customer.
MDP
as little as you can to get maximum learning with benefit for the customer
Business model
How its MVP. Mobile only. 12 Dealers in small radius. Auction near by.
AB test the 3 of these journeys but you’d have to actually build the 3 options which takes time and means two lots of work would go in the bin.