Slides of my talk at JavaLand 2014 "Good user experience (UX) is essential in modern software, be it a web-application based on JavaEE, Spring, Play or a similar framework, or a rich client developed with JavaFX/Swing. It is a must-have in consumer oriented applications and even in business applications good user experience becomes increasingly important. Therefore proper UX design should be embedded into the development of any user facing software. Unfortunately only few teams are equipped with a UX expert and it is up to the developers to incorporate good usability. This talk covers the basics of UX design. We will take a look at several concrete and simple techniques that every team can use, even with small budget, and that will enable you to increase the usability of your software tremendously."

1. DIY Usability Design
for Developers
Michael Heinrichs
Canoo Engineering AG

2. Ipod Classic
By Matthieu Riegler (CC BY 3.0)
Nest
By Grant Sewell (CC BY-SA 2.0)

3. Michael Heinrichs
http://blog.netopyr.com
@net0pyr
canoo
[delivering end-user happiness]

4. Usability
Process & Tools
UX Techniques

5. Learnability
Efficiency
Memorability
Errors
Satisfaction

6. The Curse of Knowledge

8. Usability
Process & Tools
UX Techniques

11. Progress
Complexity
Parallelism

12. Sketches

16. Paper Prototype

19. Lo-Fi Prototype

21. Wire
Frame
PPT
Mockup
Scene
Builder
Slides
+ + +
Parking Lot

23. Hi-Fi Prototype

25. Progress
Complexity
Parallelism

26. Usability
Process & Tools
UX Techniques

27. Field Study

29. Persona

30. By Jeremy Keith (CC BY 2.0)

31. Proto-Persona

32. See?
Hear?
Think & Feel?
Say & Do?
Pain Gain

33. Heuristic Evaluation

34. Visibility of system status
Match between system and the
real world
User control and freedom
...

35. Usability Test

37. Problems
Found
Participants
100 %
5 10 15

38. One usability test is
100 % better than none

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