Effective Digital Diary Studies / UXPA Webinar May 2016Sara Cambridge
Diary studies are one of the few research methods that allows people to report their in-the-moment experiences, but their usefulness has been limited by the difficulty in getting people to remember to carry them around and fill them out. Mobile phones have breathed new life into diary studies since people are already using them in short spurts throughout their day. However designing a study that collects relevant data can be tricky.
The workshop covers all elements involved in planning and facilitating focus groups. It covers the logistics; techniques to attract attendees; activities to engage participants; techniques to improve facilitation; and how to record and share the results of the focus group. The workshop is interactive in nature, with discussion points throughout, and an opportunity to try things out.
Effective Digital Diary Studies / UXPA Webinar May 2016Sara Cambridge
Diary studies are one of the few research methods that allows people to report their in-the-moment experiences, but their usefulness has been limited by the difficulty in getting people to remember to carry them around and fill them out. Mobile phones have breathed new life into diary studies since people are already using them in short spurts throughout their day. However designing a study that collects relevant data can be tricky.
The workshop covers all elements involved in planning and facilitating focus groups. It covers the logistics; techniques to attract attendees; activities to engage participants; techniques to improve facilitation; and how to record and share the results of the focus group. The workshop is interactive in nature, with discussion points throughout, and an opportunity to try things out.
“Faux”cus Groups: Reimagining Groups to Uncover Behavioral Insights in User R...UXPA International
What if there was a way to take advantage of the benefits of group sessions without losing the individual depth of findings of 1:1 sessions?
Over the last 7 years, our team has applied numerous research methods to align with client needs and research goals. Having discovered firsthand that no research method is perfect, the team has created a new approach to group-based research. Inspired by Co-Design, Focus Groups, and Contextual Inquiry, we’ve combined individual activities with group sessions in order to bring to light individual’s experiences, motivations, and ideas without losing the creative aspect of the group dynamic. The approach, Collaborative Experience Mapping, allows participants to provide individual in-depth feedback while avoiding many of the pitfalls of group-based research.
We will present an interactive deep-dive into the nuances of our methodology; explain what we’ve learned throughout our projects and how you can apply it to your own research efforts.
From Sketch Camp 2013 - Paper prototyping is an excellent tool for iterating through ideas and getting them in front of an audience for testing as quickly as possible. Using paper and pencil as a medium, paper prototyping can be done efficiently and with minimal budgeting. This talk with cover best practices for ideation, paper prototyping, prepping these prototypes for testing using a mobile app like POP (Prototypes on Paper), and then showing them to an audience for guerrilla usability testing.
New to testing? Looking improve your testing skills? Recently discovered the testing community and wondering what we’ve been talking about all this time? Well, this talk is for you then!
Huib is awesome. Well, he thinks he is. Others do to though, based on the popularity of his popular blogpost “Heuristics for recognizing professional testers”. In this talk, Huib will share his view on what an awesome tester is, based on that blogpost.
How did Huib become an awesome tester? What does he know that we may not. What skills has he learnt over his career, that we are perhaps yet to. What characteristics has he identified in himself and other awesome testers? Huib is going to share his personal learning journey with us. Offering us his map into the world of learning software testing, a detailed comprehensive map. Huib will walk us through his map expanding on why his map contains this area, key concepts to grasp in this area, how he cut his path through this area, sharing with us who and what helped him.
As a coach and trainer, Huib has coached and trained many software testers in his career. Over this time he has collated a huge list of useful resources, including books, blogs, videos and some great communities. Huib will equip you with them all, giving you all he has to offer, preparing you as best he can for your journey, be it at the start, or a new chapter. It just leaves one question, what does your map look like?
One Hour Translation provides High quality, Fast, 24x7 Professional Human Translation in more than 57 languages. We are able to provide high-quality translations around the clock, any day, thanks to a community of over 10000 professional translators from over 100 different countries. One Hour Translation serve tens of thousands of projects a month thanks to AWS cloud technologies which enables fast and transparent scaling of our service. In this session I will present a case study for IT architecture and deployment on AWS with security monitoring using Newvem's services.
Oren Yagev Co-Founder, CTO at OneHourTranslation.com
AWS Customer Presentation: Coca Cola Turkey migrates SAP ERP to AWS-SAPPHIRE ...Amazon Web Services
In this presentation, learn about Coca Cola Turkey’s business challenges, why they decided to move their SAP ERP to AWS, a project overview, and benefits realized.
Customer, market and business validation for early-stage startupsJeff McClelland
A collection of tips on how to go about validating your offer to customers, choose a market, and scope a business. Touches on JTBD, lean startup, business model canvas. Also a brief case study on TransferWise and the keys to it's success.
“Faux”cus Groups: Reimagining Groups to Uncover Behavioral Insights in User R...UXPA International
What if there was a way to take advantage of the benefits of group sessions without losing the individual depth of findings of 1:1 sessions?
Over the last 7 years, our team has applied numerous research methods to align with client needs and research goals. Having discovered firsthand that no research method is perfect, the team has created a new approach to group-based research. Inspired by Co-Design, Focus Groups, and Contextual Inquiry, we’ve combined individual activities with group sessions in order to bring to light individual’s experiences, motivations, and ideas without losing the creative aspect of the group dynamic. The approach, Collaborative Experience Mapping, allows participants to provide individual in-depth feedback while avoiding many of the pitfalls of group-based research.
We will present an interactive deep-dive into the nuances of our methodology; explain what we’ve learned throughout our projects and how you can apply it to your own research efforts.
From Sketch Camp 2013 - Paper prototyping is an excellent tool for iterating through ideas and getting them in front of an audience for testing as quickly as possible. Using paper and pencil as a medium, paper prototyping can be done efficiently and with minimal budgeting. This talk with cover best practices for ideation, paper prototyping, prepping these prototypes for testing using a mobile app like POP (Prototypes on Paper), and then showing them to an audience for guerrilla usability testing.
New to testing? Looking improve your testing skills? Recently discovered the testing community and wondering what we’ve been talking about all this time? Well, this talk is for you then!
Huib is awesome. Well, he thinks he is. Others do to though, based on the popularity of his popular blogpost “Heuristics for recognizing professional testers”. In this talk, Huib will share his view on what an awesome tester is, based on that blogpost.
How did Huib become an awesome tester? What does he know that we may not. What skills has he learnt over his career, that we are perhaps yet to. What characteristics has he identified in himself and other awesome testers? Huib is going to share his personal learning journey with us. Offering us his map into the world of learning software testing, a detailed comprehensive map. Huib will walk us through his map expanding on why his map contains this area, key concepts to grasp in this area, how he cut his path through this area, sharing with us who and what helped him.
As a coach and trainer, Huib has coached and trained many software testers in his career. Over this time he has collated a huge list of useful resources, including books, blogs, videos and some great communities. Huib will equip you with them all, giving you all he has to offer, preparing you as best he can for your journey, be it at the start, or a new chapter. It just leaves one question, what does your map look like?
One Hour Translation provides High quality, Fast, 24x7 Professional Human Translation in more than 57 languages. We are able to provide high-quality translations around the clock, any day, thanks to a community of over 10000 professional translators from over 100 different countries. One Hour Translation serve tens of thousands of projects a month thanks to AWS cloud technologies which enables fast and transparent scaling of our service. In this session I will present a case study for IT architecture and deployment on AWS with security monitoring using Newvem's services.
Oren Yagev Co-Founder, CTO at OneHourTranslation.com
AWS Customer Presentation: Coca Cola Turkey migrates SAP ERP to AWS-SAPPHIRE ...Amazon Web Services
In this presentation, learn about Coca Cola Turkey’s business challenges, why they decided to move their SAP ERP to AWS, a project overview, and benefits realized.
Customer, market and business validation for early-stage startupsJeff McClelland
A collection of tips on how to go about validating your offer to customers, choose a market, and scope a business. Touches on JTBD, lean startup, business model canvas. Also a brief case study on TransferWise and the keys to it's success.
A discovery process to understand:
what’s valuable to the customer,
create a Go-To-Market strategy,
prove a profitable, sustainable business model as quickly as possible.
Lean Validation: 10 Ways to Quickly Test Your Startup IdeaProductPlan
Last month I gave a talk at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. For many first-timers with great ideas, the process is exciting but also a bit intimidating.
The goal for my talk was simple: To lay out a few practical tips for entrepreneurs to quickly validate their ideas. I also wanted to help them understand that even first-time entrepreneurs can launch successful products by taking a few easy (and often free) steps.
After validating several software products, I’ve discovered that it doesn’t take much experience or money to bring amazing products to market with excited buyers on the first day.
Here are my tips for confirming whether you have product/market fit with real customers. By simply engaging with real people and asking the right questions, you can confirm if your idea solves a problem, who your potential buyers are, and ultimately whether there’s a market for your product.
How to do Customer Validation: Market Research for StartupsJudy Schramm
Have an exciting idea for a business? Here are step-by-step instructions for using LinkedIn to set up interviews with prospective customers, get feedback, and discover if your idea is viable.
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.
6 essential things for businesses to know about content designLizzieBruce
Understand how content design affects your business. From Cake Content Consultancy. Based on a presentation for University of Cambridge. Original content compiled in collaboration with the UIS content design team.
Slide contents:
1. Each piece of content is part of a wider action. The journey to complete a task or find information online could start on Google, and end on a competitor’s website. Make sure the part where people interact with your site is straightforward and useful. Ask: Where has the visitor come from? What are they trying to do? What are they going to do next? This helps you: focus content on what they need now, minimise duplication of what they already know, and recognise related content and improve the information architecture (IA).
2. Content design achieves business goals by meeting “user needs”.
By serving site visitor needs, for example providing clear information on ABC, we can increase interest in XYZ. Needs are researched and content is based around those, rather than approaching topics from a siloed perspective. Designing with a user first approach is the best way to meet business needs. It’s in everyone’s best interest.
3. Content design is based on data and evidence for what users need.
Content designers don’t guess or assume what users want and where they are coming from, they research it. Content designers use: analytics data, user interviews, user behaviour studies, usability and readability research. For example, they research user language by looking at search data, rather than picking words they think are suitable.
4. Content standards improve findability, clarity, consistency and usability.
To produce high quality, trustworthy information, content principles and standards are necessary. Following them needs to be non-negotiable. BBC, The Economist, GOV.UK all hold their content up to such checks, as do your competitors. Usability reviews should cover accessibility and inclusivity. Content standards make information easier to find and absorb in a limited timeframe. A good start is to choose clear, simple language. Respected research shows even experts prefer plain language, refer to The Public Speaks: An Empirical Study of Legal Communication by Christopher R. Trudeau. A smooth, consistent flow through your site builds trust with your users, and helps your reputation. The opposite damages it.
5. Content design is a continuous approach, it goes beyond page layout and wording.
Its methodologies and practices: help you create, organise and maintain less, more effective content, enable a consistent user experience, promote relevancy and accuracy, improve content workflow and governance, ensure content is in line with strategy.
6. Content design is a professional skillset.
Designing content for a user purpose involves: research, data analytics, user-focused, informational content writing skills accessibility, usability and readability knowledge and information architecture.
Lean Business Analysis and UX Runway: Managing Value by Reducing Waste (Natal...IT Arena
Lviv IT Arena is a conference specially designed for programmers, designers, developers, top managers, inverstors, entrepreneur and startuppers. Annually it takes place on 2-4 of October in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium. In 2015 conference gathered more than 1400 participants and over 100 speakers from companies like Facebook. FitBit, Mail.ru, HP, Epson and IBM. More details about conference at itarene.lviv.ua.
Lean Business Analysis and UX Runway - Natalie WarnertNatalie Warnert
How to integrate BAs and UX in a Agile/Lean environment to create an MVP to learn while reducing potential waste. Presented at Lviv IT Arena, 2015 in Lviv, Ukraine by Natalie Warnert, October 3, 2015
www.nataliewarnert.com
This is a quick overview of my design process which I can hardly call my own, because most of it is based on the work done by various experts in the field. I have compiled this to make it easier for anyone to get a quick overview of an end to end research to development lifecycle.
Task maps. Customer journeys. Cognitive walk-throughs. All are artifacts of our process of seeking understanding about our users that we likely create on a regular basis. But how can we better connect that work to the process of web site data collection and analysis?
Learn how we can adapt our existing process and artifacts to drive the definition of what user data we need to collect, as well as how to better analyze and validate what we do, including:
- Using existing site analytics to set a behavioral baseline.
- Defining what we want to measure based on task maps and other UX artifacts.
The result? Consensus on user behavior as expressed through data that can be used to tell the evolving story about our users and create better products for them.
How to Build Winning Products by Microsoft Sr. Product ManagerProduct School
In this talk, Ria introduced the audience to the heart, mind and soul of Product Management: Customer Obsession, Metrics, and Product Sense. She discussed a broad understanding of top research methods, product management frameworks and metrics used by Product Managers at Facebook and Microsoft.
Think tank - Data Culture for a Better BusinessDan Cave
Growth Hacker and Data Punk Daniel Cave talks about how how to put Data at the heart of your business.
What you should track, what you should share and who you should share it with to drive the best business decisions possible.
Creating a Content Calendar 2015 - Patty SwisherPatty Swisher
Overview of currently available tools, theories and techniques to create a content calendar for your small business. Presented at PodCamp PittsburghX 2015.
Get it right the first time - AJ Davis - Product Camp Austin 2018AJ Davis
You should skip user research. It’s slow, expensive, and it disrupts the product development cycle. Go ahead and make decisions based on your gut, without any insights into how customers behave or how they react to your product design decisions. "Dev resources are never constrained,” said no one ever.
In this talk, you’ll learn how to save your development team time (and frustration) by infusing user research early and often in your product development cycle. We’ll cover the latest tools and techniques which enable research to move faster and be less expensive, and we’ll help you make the case for why your team needs to prioritizing user research.
Principles of Website Design - Customer Experience and Usability IDMDigitangle
Part of the IDM Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing from The Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing: The IDM
Delivered by Katrina gallagher of Digitangle.co.uk March 2014.
Making sense of analytics for documentation pagesPronovix
As content producers, we invest considerable time and effort in developing, packaging, and delivering content that we think our users need. After publishing the content, we hope that users find our content useful. And we often wonder how users really navigate and consume our content. Web page analytics can help us gauge the information needs of our customers, assess their content consumption behavior, and find opportunities to improve our content and how we deliver it.
Kumar explores the basics of web analytics, pitfalls of relying too much on web analytics for important decisions, the typical web analytics process, and he will share some guidelines for interpreting web analytics numbers.
What Are the Product & Design Principles by FindMyPast PMProduct School
This presentation covers the complexities of working with products across the physical and software arena. We'll be covering how ideas and concepts become reality, how a PM works cross-functionally with multiple teams to keep a project flowing and how a PM continues to iterate and improve upon products after they've made it to consumers' hands.
Key Takeaways:
● Ideas that have proven to be successful in other world class companies
● Benchmarks, Prototypes, Data Driven Products
● Things the company has found to work through experimentation and continuous improvement
Systems Thinking - Web à Québec - May 2022Boon Yew Chew
In modern times, both signal and noise overwhelms us—pandemic, wars, climate change, yet another platform redesign—complexity has finally caught up, and we've no choice but to deal with it.
But where do we begin with complexity when there's so much to think of? A systems view might help us unravel the mess, connect the right dots, and eventually getting along with the change.
That's what this talk is about - a peek into the world of systems thinking, and what it can teach us about embracing and navigating overwhelming things.
Presented at Web à Québec, 24 May 2022.
Reading across a diverse range of topics is a good sign of maturing craft and designers. Boon's obsession with design and the human condition has led him to discover often unconventional but powerful perspectives through books. He will share how some of these books have influenced and shaped him as a designer, and talk about how that has supported his work with complex problem spaces.
I pulled together some broad perspectives and thoughts from working on chatbots the last six months into this talk I gave at UX Live conference on October 2017.
Chatbot interaction design — IxDA London July 2017Boon Yew Chew
Now that chatbots are seeping into the mainstream, interaction designers are starting to receive briefs to design and improve chatbot conversational experiences on apps, websites, and more.
That begs the question: What is interaction design for chatbots?
These are some thoughts from my recent work writing UX guidelines and recommendations for a large high-street client. I'll address some basic thinking and approaches to designing chatbot experiences, focusing on practical rather than future-forward applications.
Visual thinking for service design — CanUX November 2016Boon Yew Chew
The success of service design involves an organisation's ability to restructure itself towards the design and delivery of services in a meaningful, impactful way. Visual thinking provide a powerful means for diverse teams to work through complexity. This workshop introduces visual thinking as an approach to solve service design problems, involving methods like rapid visualisation, visual sensemaking, touchpoint sketching, rich pictures, and service posters.
Uxplosion! Inspirations from the thriving London UX events sceneBoon Yew Chew
This is a collection of thoughts from my own experience with UX events in London, with some inspiration from blog posts from Martin Belam and Matthew Solle who run events out of London IA.
My account of becoming a UX designer. Yet another perspective of the many roads into UX. Please share your experiences as well.
http://lightningux.org.uk
http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2011/02/lightning-ux-boon-chew.php
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49415654@N07/5409640323/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/5411433922/
http://blog.tombran.co.uk/2011/02/lightningux/
http://twitter.com/#!/lightningUX
http://twitter.com/#!/search/lightningux
Understanding the Everyday Use of Images on the WebBoon Yew Chew
This was presented at NordiCHI 2010 along with Jennifer Rode from Drexel. It was based on my diary study of nine participants regarding their use of images on the Internet.
I'm planning to give a similar talk on the subject, aimed at a more commercial audience.
Blog post here: http://boonyew.com/interaction/2010/10/28/why-we-use-images-on-the-internet/
You could be a professional graphic designer and still make mistakes. There is always the possibility of human error. On the other hand if you’re not a designer, the chances of making some common graphic design mistakes are even higher. Because you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s where this blog comes in. To make your job easier and help you create better designs, we have put together a list of common graphic design mistakes that you need to avoid.
Unleash Your Inner Demon with the "Let's Summon Demons" T-Shirt. Calling all fans of dark humor and edgy fashion! The "Let's Summon Demons" t-shirt is a unique way to express yourself and turn heads.
https://dribbble.com/shots/24253051-Let-s-Summon-Demons-Shirt
Between Filth and Fortune- Urban Cattle Foraging Realities by Devi S Nair, An...Mansi Shah
This study examines cattle rearing in urban and rural settings, focusing on milk production and consumption. By exploring a case in Ahmedabad, it highlights the challenges and processes in dairy farming across different environments, emphasising the need for sustainable practices and the essential role of milk in daily consumption.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
Expert Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Drafting ServicesResDraft
Whether you’re looking to create a guest house, a rental unit, or a private retreat, our experienced team will design a space that complements your existing home and maximizes your investment. We provide personalized, comprehensive expert accessory dwelling unit (ADU)drafting solutions tailored to your needs, ensuring a seamless process from concept to completion.
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
Transforming Brand Perception and Boosting Profitabilityaaryangarg12
In today's digital era, the dynamics of brand perception, consumer behavior, and profitability have been profoundly reshaped by the synergy of branding, social media, and website design. This research paper investigates the transformative power of these elements in influencing how individuals perceive brands and products and how this transformation can be harnessed to drive sales and profitability for businesses.
Through an exploration of brand psychology and consumer behavior, this study sheds light on the intricate ways in which effective branding strategies, strategic social media engagement, and user-centric website design contribute to altering consumers' perceptions. We delve into the principles that underlie successful brand transformations, examining how visual identity, messaging, and storytelling can captivate and resonate with target audiences.
Methodologically, this research employs a comprehensive approach, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Real-world case studies illustrate the impact of branding, social media campaigns, and website redesigns on consumer perception, sales figures, and profitability. We assess the various metrics, including brand awareness, customer engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth, to measure the effectiveness of these strategies.
The results underscore the pivotal role of cohesive branding, social media influence, and website usability in shaping positive brand perceptions, influencing consumer decisions, and ultimately bolstering sales and profitability. This paper provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations for businesses seeking to leverage branding, social media, and website design as potent tools to enhance their market position and financial success.
15. @boonych • #leandiary Users record thoughts, comments, etc. over time http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanessabertozzi/877910821 http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3599753183/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/3020452399/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jevnin/390234217/ Interview users Gather feedback, data Organise and analyse (affinity maps, analytics)
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17. No one right way to collect data @boonych • #leandiary Structured Yes/no Select a category Date & time Multiple choice Unstructured Open-ended Opinions / thoughts / feelings Notes / comments http://www.flickr.com/photos/roboppy/9625780/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanessabertozzi/877910821 Combine / mix & match
25. Map diary to session tracking @boonych • #leandiary Validate diary data against your metrics. Customers sometimes behave differently than what they say. Make the data richer.
Validate means finding out what customers _really_ want, not what we think they want or what they say they want Quickly means validated, actionable, testable, repeatable
Another assumption: research should also be validated. Not ‘fake’ customers, but real ones.
Note: give an example here
FIX THE PHOTO
Weird things may come out of this. May only make sense in the future. Don’t just dismiss data. Keep them, it may be useful later.