Presentation given at the Day of .Net 2009 in St. Louis at the Ameristar Casino Conference Center. For a pseudo-transcript of the presentation please visit my blog. http://bradsramblings.com/blog/2009/09/user-experience-doesnt-equal-user-interface-presentation/

1. Welcome to the most
non-technical talk today!

2. User Experience !=
User Interface
Brad Nunnally
User Experience Designer
MiTek Industries

3. If Using Twitter
#UX_STLDODN

4. Goals UI mean ...
What’s the
What UX isn’t...
What UX is...
Generally how to do it...

5. Street Cred
Computer Science Grad

6. First UX Job
Consultant for 21/2 Years

7. Why I’m a UXD?
I love people
I love technology
I love a challenge

8. What is the UI all
about?
No, I won’t be showing you any icebergs

9. Pretty Flat
Stuff on the surface of
things only mean so
much.

10. Temporary
Used only when needed,
and forgotten just as
easily.

11. Graphical
You can only put so much
lipstick on a pig.

12. A Treasure Map
Should convey the steps
necessary to take to
accomplish a task

13. Un-Defining The Damn
Thing
What User Experience Isn’t...

14. About Design
An experience transcends
an interface, service, or
product (Mac vs PC)

15. Usability Tests
It’s not about what works
or not

16. A Phase
Takes more than few best
practices to achieve a
good experience

17. The Interface
Independent of current
level of technology

18. About the User
Sums up your brand and
message

19. Done Alone
Never drink alone, never
design alone

20. An Experience
Impossible to create
something as intangible as
an experience

21. Defining The Damn
Thing
User Experience Is ...

22. A Lot of Hats
UXD, IA, IxD, VD, BA,
UID, etc. So many hats,
not enough heads

23. Relationships
People aren’t users or
customers, but partners
in an overall relationship

24. It’s Moral
Helping people do their
thing painlessly is never a
bad thing

25. Human Problems
Most of this problems are
timeless, others are being
created everyday

26. Sucking Less
Failure is part of the
game, just learn from your
failures

27. The Next Level
Provides the freedom to
innovate without
alienating

28. For an Experience
Set the stage and see how
the play gets acted out

29. Creating a Good User
Experience
A General Process

30. Problem Space
All good things start with
some good ole research

31. Understanding
Define the pieces to the
puzzle you are trying to
solve

32. Proper Solution
Find the needle in the
haystack

33. Validate
Determine how much you
sucked this time around

34. Maintenance
Got to keep the machine
rolling.

35. Takes Everyone
Goes beyond the project
team and department.

36. Wrapping Up
Some take aways

37. Young Profession
You’re our older sibling,
and it is time for us to get
along

38. Growing Up
Siblings can only bicker
for so long

39. Human Condition
User Experience can’t
improve it without your
help

40. Dive Deeper
http://bit.ly/17D7mM – Definition of User Experience by Luke Wroblewski
http://bit.ly/17lFT - 10 Most Common Misconceptions about User Experience
Design by Whitney Hess
http://bit.ly/WMb2 - A Definition of User Experience by Eric Reiss
http://bit.ly/Jk5hE - Pioneering a User Experience Process
http://bit.ly/2qhmwj - User Experience Diagrams by Luke Wroblewski
http://bit.ly/CMIR3 - The iPhone is not easy to use: a new direction for UX Design
by Fred Beecher
http://bit.ly/vOwxX - Top 10 UX Myths by Keith Lang

41. Resources - Pictures
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43. Thanks
Brad Nunnally
bnunnally@gmail.com
http://bradsrambling.com/blog
Follow me! @bnunnally