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We want to thank Momondo for hosting us and their wonderful UX ladies to share insights into their work!
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Introduction to User Experience Design 10/07/17
1. Introduction to User Experience
School of Visual Arts | 7 October, 2017 Robert Stribley
2. Today’s presentation will be available on SlideShare
following the workshop:
www.slideshare.net/stribs
3. Robert Stribley
Associate Creative Director,
Experience
Introductions
Sample clients:
• Citibank, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley,
Oppenheimer Funds, Prudential
• Boston Scientific, Nasonex
• AMResorts, Choice Hotels, RCI,
Sotheby’s International Realty
• Computer Associates, EMC
• Ford, Lincoln
• Mercedes-Benz, MBFS, Mercedes-Benz
Vans, smart
• AT&T, Nextel
• Red Cross, Smithsonian National Air &
Space Museum
• Pearson, Travel Channel, Women’s Wear
Daily
• I’m an Associate Creative Director,
Experience at SapientRazorfish
• I enjoy literature, cinema, music,
photography
• I drink coffee
4. About You
• What’s your name?
• What do you do for work?
• What do you do for fun?
• Coffee, tea or bottled water?
Introductions
5. Goals of this workshop
• Understand the basic concepts of user experience (UX)
design
• Experience the general process and techniques used on
a design project
• Review the basic deliverables a UXer develops within a
project
Introductions
13. A Brief History of UX
1975
• Richard Saul Wurman coined the term “information architecture”
to describe the field now more often described as “information
design”
1994
• Argus Associates founded in Ann Arbor, MI, the first firm devoted
to IA
1998
• First edition of Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld’s Information
Architecture for the World Wide Web, affectionately known as
“The Polar Bear” book
2000
• First IA Summit, Boston, MA – Defining Information Architecture
History of UX
14. Partially adapted from: “A brief history of information architecture” by Peter Morville and Information Architecture: Designing
information environments for purpose, edited by Alan Gilchrist and Barry Mahon
A Brief History of UX
2002
• Boxes & Arrows, online journal for UX and design goes
live
• 3 new books on UX published, including Jesse James
Garrett’s The Elements of User Experience
2014
• Capital One purchases Garrett’s UX-consulting firm
Adaptive Path
2018
• 18th Annual IA Summit to be held in Chicago, IL, March
12: “Converge”
History of UX
15. in•for•ma•tion ar•chi•tec•ture n.
• The combination of organization, labeling,
and navigation schemes within an information
system.
• The structural design of an information space
to facilitate task completion and intuitive
access to content.
• The art and science of structuring and
classifying web sites and intranets to help
people find and manage information.
• An emerging discipline and community of
practice focused on bringing principles of
design and architecture to the digital
landscape.Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (1st Edition), p. 4, Rosenfeld and Morville
Navigation
Interaction
Art/Science
Discipline/
Community
Defining UX
20. Scent of Information
Progressive Disclosure
Information Clustering & Hierarchy
Remove Paths Not Taken
Tyranny of Consistency
There Is No fold
Death of the Homepage
Know Your Audience
UX Principles
22. 3 Clicks? A myth
Designing for
scent is more
successful than
designing for
navigation.
– Jared Spool, UIE
If there is a scientific
basis to the Three-Click
Rule, we couldn't find it
in our data.
- User Interface Engineering,
April 2003
Self Study
“Designing for the scent of information” - Jared M. Spool, Christine Perfetti & David Brittan, User Interface Engineering
27. “Progressive disclosure
defers advanced or rarely
used features to a
secondary screen, making
applications easier to learn
and less error-prone.”
- Jakob NielsenSelf Study
“Progressive Disclosure” - Jakob Nielsen, December 4, 2006
33. “Designers can create
normalcy out of chaos; they
can clearly communicate
ideas through the organizing
and manipulating of words
and pictures.”
—Jeffery Veen, The Art and Science of Web
34. When information is
clustered appropriately on
a screen, users can scan
and quickly come to terms
with the intent of the
content.
43. Consistency is an important but
sometimes over-rated tool
It’s key in maintaining a coherent
experience
But develop an eye to know when to
break from it
44. Design pages so they’re scalable
Suppress modules or sections of the
page until they're needed
Don’t labor to create content just to
ensure every screen or element is
“consistently” populated
47. People may come to your homepage
But more and more likely not
They’re more likely coming from Google or social
media
Many sites report only 20% of visitors landing on their
homepages
Some as few as 10 or 5%
• 88% of traffic coming to The Atlantic not hitting home page
• More than 50% of visitors to the NYT not arriving at the home
page
Have you ever bought a book on Amazon.com
52. “Web users spend 80% of their
time looking at information above
the page fold. Although users do
scroll, they allocate only 20% of
their attention below the fold.”
- Jakob Nielsen, “Scrolling and Attention,” March 22, 2010
53. “People will look very far down a page if (a) the layout encourages scanning, and (b) the initially viewable
information makes them believe that it will be worth their time to scroll.
Finally, while placing the most important stuff on top, don't forget to put a nice morsel at the very bottom.”
- Jakob Nielsen, “Scrolling and Attention,” March 22, 2010
55. Consider the amount
of attention an
audience needs on a
particular screen*
*It may be zero
56. Recapping:
• Scent of Information
• Progressive Disclosure
• Information Clustering & Hierarchy
• Remove Paths Not Taken
• The Tyranny of Consistency
• Death of the Home Page
• There Is No Fold
• Know Your Audience
59. Discovery Definition Design Development
• Stakeholder Interviews
• Business Requirements
• Feature Prioritization Matrix
• Competitive/Comparative Audit
• User Research
• Site Inventory
• Site Map
Design Process
60. Discovery Definition Design Development
• Personas
• Content Audit
• Card Sorts
• Use Cases
• Site Map
• User Journeys
• Sketching
• Conceptual Wires/Design
• Experience Brief
Design Process
61. Discovery Definition Design Development
• Site Map
• Content Matrix
• User Flows
• Sketching
• Wireframes
• Functional Specifications
• Stakeholder Reviews
• Visual Design
• Prototype
• Usability Testing
Design Process
63. What is “agile”?
relating to or denoting a method of project management, used especially for
software development, that is characterized by the division of tasks into short
phases of work and frequent reassessment and adaptation of plans.
"agile methods replace high-level design with frequent redesign”
- Oxford English Dictionary, contrast with “waterfall”
75. Our Project
Events.com
Events.com wants to revamp its website to become the go-to
online resource for people wanting to attend or promote a
large variety of events across the United States.
It should default to the city you’re in—New York—but allow
users to change to other cities within the U.S.
78. “Through research, we aim to learn
enough about the business goals,
the users, and the information
ecology to develop a solid strategy.”
– Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville
Discovery: User Research
79. Goals
• Identify patterns and trends in user behavior, tasks,
preferences, obstacles.
Methodology
• Focus Groups
• Surveys
• Interviews
Discovery: User Research
80. “[I]n a delicate inquiry like this, little is to be gained by
distributing circulars. A single patient with the right sort
of lesion and a scientific mind, carefully cross-
examined, is more likely to deepen our knowledge than
a thousand circulars answered as the average patient
answers them, even though the answers be never so
thoroughly collated by the investigator.”
- William James, “The Consciousness of Lost Limbs,” 1887
Discovery: User Research
81. Class Exercise: Survey Questions
• How do you learn about events in NYC?
• What type of events are you interested in?
• What’s more important to you:
– Price
– Type of Event
– Location
– Date
• Do you ever need to promote an event?
• Do you ever invite people to an event?
Discovery: User Research
83. “This type of assessment helps set an industry
‘marker’ by looking at what the competition is up to,
what features and functionalities are standard, and
how others have solved the same problems you
might be tasked with.”
– Dorelle Rabinowitz
Discovery: Competitive Review
84. Heuristic Evaluation
… involves evaluators examining the
interface and judging its compliance with
recognized usability principles (the
‘heuristics’) —Wikipedia
Self Study
For a more detailed explanation of heuristic evaluation, see Jakob Nielsen’s Ten Usability Heuristics.
Discovery: Competitive Review
85. Sample Usability Criteria
These examples aren’t comprehensive. Appropriate criteria will depend on the project to be completed.
Home Page
• Elements are appropriately weighted and distributed
• Information is clustered in meaningful ways
Navigation
• Navigation structure is concise and consistent
• Paths to important information are intuitive and unobstructed
Content
• Content is content chunked appropriately
• Headings and titles are scannable
• Content is current. There are visible indications of content freshness.
• Content is properly adapted for the Web. Tone of voice is consistent throughout.
Design
• Colors are appropriate for the Web. White space is used appropriately. Text is readable.
Search
• Search results are relevant and cleanly presented
Functionality
• Functionality and forms are efficiently designed
Messaging
• Errors messages are presented in clear language. Help readily available contextually to users
• Appropriate channels are provided for user feedback
Discovery: Competitive Review
86. Methodology
• Review and analyze competitor sites according to
particular criteria (heuristics)
• Draw key findings, which can influence and guide IA
through the design phase
• Include a scorecard for high-level comparison of
points across all sites
Also: Comparative Reviews
Discovery: Competitive Review
89. Key Findings
• Search is fairly prominent on each site
• Filtering on events is valuable, but not always easily available
• Calendars are helpful, but not always prominent
• Profiles and social features are handled with varying degrees of
detail
• Free events are often highlighted
• Event detail pages may have maps, RSVP, sharing, rating,
commenting functionality
• Displaying other venues and restaurants adds utility
• Option to add or promote an event isn’t always prominent
Discovery: Competitive Review
94. “There are often better ways to organize data
than the traditional ones that first occur to us.
Each organization of the same set of data
expresses different attributes and messages.
It is also important to experiment, reflect, and
choose which organization best
communicates our messages.”
– Nathan Shedroff, Experience Strategist
Definition: Card Sorting
95. Methodology
• Grouping and labeling with index cards, post it notes
• Two types:
Open – Participants sort cards with no pre-established categories. Useful for new
architectures
Closed – Participants sort cards into predetermined, provided groups. Useful for fitting
content into existing architectures
• Online card sorts
– WebSort, OptimalSort, Socratic
Goals
• Organize content more efficiently
• Find names for categories based on users’ perspectives
Self Study
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Definition: Card Sorting
96. Case Studies:
• Wachovia Wealth Management Group
• American Red Cross
• Mercedes Benz
Definition: Card Sorting
97. Card Sort
As individuals:
• Take 5 minutes to think of all the events a person could
attend
• Write each event you come up with on a Post-It note
Definition: Card Sorting
5mins
98. Card Sort
Now, as a group:
• Take a few minutes to organize your events into
categories (group & label them)
• Then we’ll share some categories
Definition: Card Sorting
15mins
99. Characteristics & Findings
• Looking for redundancies
• Lumping and splitting
• Outliers and miscellaneous items
• Placing items in multiple categories
• Categories versus filters
–E.g. Free, Family, Outdoors
• Unique but intuitive labels
–E.g. Geeks, Relax
Definition: Card Sorting
100. Next Steps
With the results of a card sort we then can:
• Build consensus
• Refine terminology
• Create a site map
• Help define navigation
Definition: Card Sorting
101. Definition: Card Sort Tools
Post-It Plus
This app from 3M allows
you to scan your Post-It
Notes, organize and share
them.
104. Conceptual DesignDesign: Site Maps
“A site map is a high level diagram
showing the hierarchy of a system.
Site maps reflect the information
structure, but are not necessarily
indicative of the navigation
structure.” – Step Two Designs
105.
106.
107. Site Map Tools:
• Omnigraffle (Mac)
• Microsoft Visio
• InDesign
• Sketch
Design: Site Maps
108. Page Types & Templates
The Mercator Atlas of Europe
From The British Library
111. Types of Navigation
• Site Structure – major nav
• Hierarchical – product families
• Function – sitemap privacy
• Direct – banner ad/shortcut
• Reference – related links
• Dynamic – search results
• Faceted Navigation – filters results
• Breadcrumb – location
• Step Navigation – sequence through forms/results
Self Study
Adapted from Atsushi Hasegagwa’s The 7 Navigation Types of Web Sites
Design: Navigation
112. Areas of Navigation
• Global – universal
header/footer
• Local – left nav/right nav
• Local content – text links,
buttons
Self Study
Adapted from Atsushi Hasegagwa’s The 7 Navigation Types of Web Sites
Styles of Navigation
• Rollover
• Dropdown
• Flyout
• Tabs
• Accordion
• Hamburger
Design: Navigation
119. “twttr sketch”
Twitter
Design: Sketching
[This sketch] has very special significance – it's hanging in the office
somewhere with one other page. Whenever I'm thinking about something, I
really like to take out the yellow notepad and get it down.
– Jack Dorsey, Twitter
120. “There are techniques and
processes whereby we can put
experience front and center in
design. My belief is that the
basis for doing so lies in
extending the traditional
practice of sketching. ”
- Bill Buxton
Design: Sketching
121. Attributes of a Sketch
• Quick
• Timely
• Inexpensive
• Disposable
• Plentiful
• Clear vocabulary
• Distinct gesture
• Minimal detail
• Appropriate degree of refinement
• Suggest & explore rather than confirm
• Ambiguity
Design: Sketching
122. Goals for Collaborative Sketching
• To communicate your ideas effectively by
visualizing them
• To benefit from the participation of your
colleagues
• To quickly generate ideas and refine through
iterations
Design: Sketching
124. • Discuss the purpose of the specific experience you’re
sketching
• What does it need to accomplish?
• What features are necessary?
• How would you prioritize them?
• Who’s the audience?
• You’re not discussing layout or design
• Just the problem you’re trying to solve
• You’re not sketching yet
Discuss
Design: Sketching
125.
126. Sketch
• Sketch silently
• Limit your time – 5,10 minutes
• Sketch as much as possible, as many different
ideas as possible
• Don’t worry about mistakes or style
• Emphasis is on the quantity of ideas, not the
quality of the sketches
Design: Sketching
128. Share
• Review your work with your team
• Keep it short – 60 seconds each
• Offer your feedback to others
• What you like
• Questions about what didn’t work for you
• You’re not grilling your colleagues and this
isn’t a competition
Design: Sketching
129. Iterate
• Now sketch again if you need to
• Or collaborate on a high-level wireframe (e.g.
via whiteboard)
• Then begin your wireframe with a more
informed view, with more and better ideas
• Iterate on your design
Design: Sketching
130. Class Exercise: Collaborative Sketching
In teams, sketch your ideas.
Event Detail Page
1. Take 15 minutes first to discuss what features belong
here Remember, no sketching yet
Design: Sketching
131. Class Exercise: Collaborative Sketching
In teams, sketch your ideas.
Event Detail Page
1. Take 15 minutes first to discuss what features belong
here
2. Time for silent sketching
Design: Sketching
132. Class Exercise: Collaborative Sketching
In teams, sketch your ideas.
Event Detail Page
1. Take 15 minutes first to discuss what features belong
here
2. Time for silent sketching
3. Time for sharing your sketches
Design: Sketching
133. Class Exercise: Collaborative Sketching
Did you come up with any
differentiating ideas for an
event page?
Design: Sketching
134. Sketching Tools:
The following apps are all for the
iPad:
• Adobe Ideas (Free)
• Bamboo Paper (Free)
• Muji Notebook ($3.99)
• Penultimate (Free)
• SketchBook (Free)
• Paper (Free)
• Adonit Forge (Free)
Design: Sketching
136. Wireframes
“Web site wireframes are blue prints
that define a Web page’s content and
functionality. They do not convey
design – e.g. colors, graphics, or
fonts.”
- FatPurple
Design: Wireframes
142. Design a Home Page
In your teams, create your final deliverable, a home page for Events.com
1) Discuss features needed for a homepage
2) Sketch your ideas for a homepage individually
3) Discuss your sketches again with your team
Design: Final Exercise
143. Final Home Page Collaboration
In your teams, create your final deliverable, a home page for Events.com
Collaborate as a team on a final version of the home
page
Design: Final Exercise
145. Responsive Web Design
“Rather than tailoring disconnected designs to each of an ever-
increasing number of web devices, we can treat them as
facets of the same experience. We can design for an optimal
viewing experience, but embed standards-based technologies
into our designs to make them not only more flexible, but more
adaptive to the media that renders them. In short, we need to
practice responsive web design.”
– Ethan Marcotte, Responsive Web Design, A List Apart
Self Study
Ethan Marcotte: Responsive Web Design
Design: Responsive Design
147. Responsive Design Characteristics
• Think “mobile first”
• The goal: Maintain content and features across devices
• Responsive designs adjust at different “break points” corresponding to the
dimensions of various devices, typically desktop, tablet and mobile
• Navigation may be repositioned
• Modules may be repositioned but hierarchies are maintained
• Images scale down in size or may be cropped
• Text size is maintained where possible, though headings may be reduced in size
• Filters may be moved into a dropdown
• Occasionally, content or features are dropped to save screen real estate or if
they’re not device appropriate
Design: Responsive Design
149. Books:
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web – Louis
Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
• Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web –
Christina Wodtke, Austin Govella
• The Elements of User Experience – Jesse James Garrett
• Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User
Experience – James Kalbach, Aaron Gustafson
• Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
• Responsive Web Design – Ethan Marcotte
Web Sites:
• Alertbox
• A List Apart
• Boxes & Arrows
• wireframes.tumblr.com
Further Studies:
• School of Visual Arts
• Continuing Ed classes
• MFA in Interaction Design
• Pratt – Course in Information Design
• Rosenfeld Media
• General Assembly
• Skillshare
• Adaptive Path
• The Information Architecture Institute
• The IA Summit
• Nielsen Norman Group
• User Interface Engineering
Video:
The Right Way to Wireframe by Russ Unger (YouTube)
Additional Resources
Intro to UX Workshop
7 October 2017
Robert Stribley
Preliminaries
Introductions
Introductions
Workshop goals
Agenda
Agenda – Afternoon
Agenda – Afternoon
UX History
User Experience
The Spectrum of User Experience
https://www.flickr.com/photos/formforce/3663684287/
Walt Disney – The original user experience designer?
https://uxmag.com/articles/walt-disney-the-worlds-first-ux-designer
Brief History of UX
Partially adapted from: “A brief history of information architecture” by Peter Morville
Information Architecture: Designing information environments for purpose, edited by Alan Gilchrist and Barry Mahon
Using architectural plans/blueprints as a metaphor for an IA’s work
UX Principles
UX Principles
Scent of Information
If you were to take only one thing away with you today, it would be that the 3-click rule is bunk.
Can actually make for a very cluttered site if you try to flatten content so it’s all available within three clicks
Users will happily click away 5, 6, 7, 8 times without noticing, if there are clear paths to what they’re looking for, concise navigation, intuitive labels, etc.
Background: Studies in “information foraging” in the early 90s at PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated)
Better: a dynamic tension between reducing the number of clicks and providing strong scent to content
Uniqlo Site
Moncler
Progressive Disclosure
Reduce clutter, cognitive overload, so there’s less to process at once - Across multiple pages – or within a page or overlay
“Progressive Disclosure” by Jakob Nielsen, December 4, 2006
Originated with studies in the 80s by user interface specialists Jack Carroll's lab work at IBM
Reduce clutter, cognitive overload, so there’s less to process at once - Across multiple pages – or within a page or overlay
Progressive disclosure in an app – weather details
Mercedes Benz product information
Mercedes Benz product information
Information Clustering & Hierarchy
Jeffery Veen quote from The Art and Science of Web Design
When information is clustered appropriately on a screen, users can scan and quickly come to terms with the intent of the content.
Information clustering
Information clustering
Information clustering
Isn’t to say that you couldn’t have a lot of content on the page – e.g. Pinterest. But content is grouped logically, can be scanned easily.
Mercedes Benz
Remove paths not taken
Seems simple, but a lot of sites could benefit from adhering to this principle
Remove paths not taken
The Tyranny of Consistency
This is a “Know it when you see it” kind of problem – sometimes tough to put a finger on
But be sure when you break with consistency, you do have a principle in mind for doing so
Varying dropdown styles on MBUSA.com are not “consistent,” per se, but tailored to the needs of the user and the content in each case.
Found this site by searching on Worst Home Page in the World.
Clearly, it’s trying to be all things to all people.
Instead, it looks like a dog’s breakfast.
Jakob Nielsen wrote in 2002 that home pages are “the most valuable real estate in the world.”
Sourcing: http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/08/coming-in-the-side-door-the-value-of-homepages-is-shifting-from-traffic-driver-to-brand/
88% of traffic coming to The Atlantic not hitting home page
More than 50% of visitors to the NYT not arriving at the home page
Have you ever bought a book on Amazon.com because you saw it on the homepage?
*Search engine optimization
Note how the site offers plenty of scent
There is no fold – Photo by Gavin Bell
There is no fold - Iamthefold.com
Jakob Nielsen, “Scrolling and Attention,” March 22, 2010
Eyetracking tests by Nielsen Norman Group - - Jakob Nielsen, “Scrolling and Attention,” March 22, 2010
Know Your Audience
Yes, your site typically has multiple audiences. But not all of them need to be addressed at once. Giving proper thought to who defines a site's audience helps clean out the chaff.
Example: Placing find an event functionality in an area where a using is creating an event. Not necessary for that audience.
Recap of UX Principles
The Design Process
The Design Process
1. Discovery
Stakeholder interviewers, Business requirements, Competitive & Comparative Audits, User Research
2. Definition
Persona/Scenario Development, Content & Meta Data Audits, Use cases, Creative Brief, Mood boards
4. Development
Functional Specifications, Quality Assurance Testing, Site development
Deliverables
Deliverables
Competitor Reviews
Site map
Personas
User Journey
User Journey
User Journey
https://www.pinterest.com/daleitch/ux-cx-ui-ixd-cxux-experience-mapsjourneys-and-serv/
User Flow
Wireframe
Creative comp
Our Project
Events.com
User Research in Copenhagen’s Elderly Homes - http://www.localhiddenvariable.com/ciid/user-research-in-copenhagens-elderly-homes/
Value of Research
Goals & Methodology
William James, The Consciousness of Lost Limbs, 1887
First published in Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1, 249-258
I cam across this quote in Oliver Sacks’ excellent book Hallucinations
Class Exercise: Survey Questions
Competitive Review
Discovery: Competitive Review – or Audit
Heuristics reviews can also be conducted on a single site, of course. For example, to review a client’s site and give them feedback on the existing site, as well as prioritized changes.
Heuristics reviews can also be conducted on a single site, of course. For example, to review a client’s site and give them feedback on the existing site, as well as prioritized changes.
We review each of these sites live during class” Eventbrite, NYCgo.com, Thrillist
Photo: stribs- Tasty & Sons, Portland, OR
Agenda – Afternoon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannedtuna/
Nathan Shedroff is Program Director of the MBA in Design Strategy program at the California College of the Arts. His books include Experience Design 1, Making Meaning, and contributing to Richard Saul Wurman's Information Anxiety 2. Advisor for Rosenfeld Media