4. Guaranteeing the Digital Rights of Way
There is a lot to do
Open Data, access to technology, managing change
The User Experience: Making it usable and useful
5. Usable and Useful
Usable: Whatever it does, it
does it well
Useful: Needed and available
at the point of need
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6. Making it usable and useful
User Experience (UX) Design, User Centred Design (UCD)
Collaborative design processes and methodologies
User-informed, not user-led: why?
7. A User Centred Design Methodology
Research/Analyse
Design
Evaluate
Iterate
8. Why bother?
Stakeholder engagement and collaboration is built in from day one
Better result for the service provider
Better result for the service consumer
Better ROI (and you can verify realised benefits)
9. Questions?
Resources and further reading:
IXDA (Interaction Design Association) http://ixda.org
IAI (Information Architecture Institute) http://iainstitute.org
UX Book Club http://uxbookclub.org
Canberra IA Cocktail Hours http://iacanberra.org
Andrew Boyd facibus@gmail.com @facibus on Twitter