Have you seen those beautiful websites that you can't use? Or the super-cool ones that make it hard to actually accomplish your tasks? There's a better way. Duane Degler joined the DC Web Mavens to cover the landscape of understanding goals, users, tasks, content, and, particularly, context.
Designing the Next Generation of Search User Experience - UXPA2015Design for Context
Video available: http://www.designforcontext.com/insights/designing-next-generation-search-user-experience
Search applications aren’t "just like Google" anymore – even Google is no longer the simple application it once was. Design is coming to the forefront of effective search applications, to help make sense of mobile search, data search, semantic search, enterprise search, federated search, and embedded search within websites and applications.
So what do we need to know about designing for search? We need to understand our users’ mental models for how they perceive seeking within an information environment. We need to understand how to provide powerful user control over results and yet keep it extremely simple. We need to know how to test for effective comprehension as well as task execution. And we need to know how to get the most out of the new available technologies and data. This UXPA 2015 talk is a deep dive into the essentials for a new generation of search designs.
How IAs Can Shape the Future of Human-AI CollaborationDesign for Context
Artificial intelligence is described as an “emerging intelligence,” but the emergent collaboration with humans is what fosters positive personal, societal, and environmental outcomes. We outline a framework that Information Architects can use to think about the key issues in designing for AI systems.
Video available: http://www.designforcontext.com/insights/personal-profiles-time-distance-smartdata2015
Personal data capture and algorithmic modeling of user preferences and interests is maturing. While its effect is felt most strongly in commercial activities and marketing, long-term value to the individual and society will arise in other disciplines like education, cultural heritage, health, and social engagement. But longitudinal user interest modeling is challenging. It is also important to be able to share that model across multiple institutions and domains, even across country borders. And what is the role of the individual user? This talk explores some of the model-building considerations for longitudinal preference management, how adaptive interfaces might play a role, as well as the way that users could interact with a model at a particular time in an application, to reflect their immediate needs and context.
Presented at SmartData 2015 conference, San Jose, CA, 19-Aug-2015
Video available: http://www.designforcontext.com/insights/simplicity-web-application-design
Simplicity is one of the most important principles of design. It has been a pillar of design thinking for a very long time -- long before the advent of human factors, usability, and user experience. But, realistically, simplicity isn’t always simple. Commercial software, enterprise applications, software as a service (SaaS), and other highly interactive applications often have no choice but to do a great number of things, because they support a range of real world tasks, some of which are complex.
In this UXPA 2015 presentation, we discuss what to try when removing functionality or features isn’t an option. We provide practical questions to ask when deciding whether and how to simplify an application. And we summarize proven design techniques to use when simplifying applications, illustrated with examples from real projects.
Building Bridges with Taxonomy: Enabling Semantic IntegrationDesign for Context
Taxonomies should be designed with enough flexibility and transition points to be a bridge to other taxonomies and datasets. Enabling your taxonomy to fit into the larger universe of partner companies, industry standards, federal requirements and complementary term sets gives it a solid foundation for future growth. We explore which vocabulary sets are available for reuse by the enterprise information architect and demonstrate how thinking about semantic integration from the beginning of the design process helps build a taxonomy that endures.
Big Data in Small Graphics: Micro-Visualizations in SaaS and Enterprise Appli...Design for Context
Presented by Design for Context's Lisa Battle and Rachel Sengers at the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) Conference June 26, 2018, in Puerto Rico.
The power of communicating data visually can’t be overstated. We often need to convey a lot of information at a glance to help expert users make quick decisions and work efficiently. For infrequent or novice users, a visual overview of a process or concept can provide orientation and help reduce the risk of mistakes. For all users, the micro-visualization is a small but powerful way to package detailed information in an easily digestible, visual form. Individually or arranged into arrays, these compact visual elements pack a huge punch, giving your users the ability to quickly assess trends, spot outliers, and identify priorities. This presentation will explore the use of data micro-visualizations to enhance user experience and explain how to utilize pre-attentive processing and gestalt mechanisms to design more effective visualizations.
UX Strategy is a term that has been around for quite a while but is often not really well understood or implemented in business. Some companies have dedicated UX teams while others have a single UX champion who is struggling to make sense or identify what UX means to their organisation. How can organisations start thinking about how to bake UX into how they work? This tutorial at UXPA 2015 in San Diego, CA, took a pragmatic look at deconstructing what UX and UX strategy means to organisations, and looked at a framework to provide practical strategies to help connect UX Strategy to Business Strategy with the aim of truly embedding user insights and user centered design into the culture of their organisations.
Designing the Next Generation of Search User Experience - Duane Degler and Li...UXPA International
Search applications aren’t "just like Google" anymore – even Google is no longer the simple application it once was. Design is coming to the forefront of effective search applications, to help make sense of mobile search, data search, semantic search, enterprise search, federated search, and embedded search within websites and applications. So what do we need to know about designing for search? We need to understand our users’ mental models for how they perceive seeking within an information environment. We need to understand how to provide powerful user control over results and yet keep it extremely simple. We need to know how to test for effective comprehension as well as task execution. And we need to know how to get the most out of the new available technologies and data. This course is a deep dive into the essentials for a new generation of search designs.
Designing the Next Generation of Search User Experience - UXPA2015Design for Context
Video available: http://www.designforcontext.com/insights/designing-next-generation-search-user-experience
Search applications aren’t "just like Google" anymore – even Google is no longer the simple application it once was. Design is coming to the forefront of effective search applications, to help make sense of mobile search, data search, semantic search, enterprise search, federated search, and embedded search within websites and applications.
So what do we need to know about designing for search? We need to understand our users’ mental models for how they perceive seeking within an information environment. We need to understand how to provide powerful user control over results and yet keep it extremely simple. We need to know how to test for effective comprehension as well as task execution. And we need to know how to get the most out of the new available technologies and data. This UXPA 2015 talk is a deep dive into the essentials for a new generation of search designs.
How IAs Can Shape the Future of Human-AI CollaborationDesign for Context
Artificial intelligence is described as an “emerging intelligence,” but the emergent collaboration with humans is what fosters positive personal, societal, and environmental outcomes. We outline a framework that Information Architects can use to think about the key issues in designing for AI systems.
Video available: http://www.designforcontext.com/insights/personal-profiles-time-distance-smartdata2015
Personal data capture and algorithmic modeling of user preferences and interests is maturing. While its effect is felt most strongly in commercial activities and marketing, long-term value to the individual and society will arise in other disciplines like education, cultural heritage, health, and social engagement. But longitudinal user interest modeling is challenging. It is also important to be able to share that model across multiple institutions and domains, even across country borders. And what is the role of the individual user? This talk explores some of the model-building considerations for longitudinal preference management, how adaptive interfaces might play a role, as well as the way that users could interact with a model at a particular time in an application, to reflect their immediate needs and context.
Presented at SmartData 2015 conference, San Jose, CA, 19-Aug-2015
Video available: http://www.designforcontext.com/insights/simplicity-web-application-design
Simplicity is one of the most important principles of design. It has been a pillar of design thinking for a very long time -- long before the advent of human factors, usability, and user experience. But, realistically, simplicity isn’t always simple. Commercial software, enterprise applications, software as a service (SaaS), and other highly interactive applications often have no choice but to do a great number of things, because they support a range of real world tasks, some of which are complex.
In this UXPA 2015 presentation, we discuss what to try when removing functionality or features isn’t an option. We provide practical questions to ask when deciding whether and how to simplify an application. And we summarize proven design techniques to use when simplifying applications, illustrated with examples from real projects.
Building Bridges with Taxonomy: Enabling Semantic IntegrationDesign for Context
Taxonomies should be designed with enough flexibility and transition points to be a bridge to other taxonomies and datasets. Enabling your taxonomy to fit into the larger universe of partner companies, industry standards, federal requirements and complementary term sets gives it a solid foundation for future growth. We explore which vocabulary sets are available for reuse by the enterprise information architect and demonstrate how thinking about semantic integration from the beginning of the design process helps build a taxonomy that endures.
Big Data in Small Graphics: Micro-Visualizations in SaaS and Enterprise Appli...Design for Context
Presented by Design for Context's Lisa Battle and Rachel Sengers at the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) Conference June 26, 2018, in Puerto Rico.
The power of communicating data visually can’t be overstated. We often need to convey a lot of information at a glance to help expert users make quick decisions and work efficiently. For infrequent or novice users, a visual overview of a process or concept can provide orientation and help reduce the risk of mistakes. For all users, the micro-visualization is a small but powerful way to package detailed information in an easily digestible, visual form. Individually or arranged into arrays, these compact visual elements pack a huge punch, giving your users the ability to quickly assess trends, spot outliers, and identify priorities. This presentation will explore the use of data micro-visualizations to enhance user experience and explain how to utilize pre-attentive processing and gestalt mechanisms to design more effective visualizations.
UX Strategy is a term that has been around for quite a while but is often not really well understood or implemented in business. Some companies have dedicated UX teams while others have a single UX champion who is struggling to make sense or identify what UX means to their organisation. How can organisations start thinking about how to bake UX into how they work? This tutorial at UXPA 2015 in San Diego, CA, took a pragmatic look at deconstructing what UX and UX strategy means to organisations, and looked at a framework to provide practical strategies to help connect UX Strategy to Business Strategy with the aim of truly embedding user insights and user centered design into the culture of their organisations.
Designing the Next Generation of Search User Experience - Duane Degler and Li...UXPA International
Search applications aren’t "just like Google" anymore – even Google is no longer the simple application it once was. Design is coming to the forefront of effective search applications, to help make sense of mobile search, data search, semantic search, enterprise search, federated search, and embedded search within websites and applications. So what do we need to know about designing for search? We need to understand our users’ mental models for how they perceive seeking within an information environment. We need to understand how to provide powerful user control over results and yet keep it extremely simple. We need to know how to test for effective comprehension as well as task execution. And we need to know how to get the most out of the new available technologies and data. This course is a deep dive into the essentials for a new generation of search designs.
Social math provides a method for designers to make complex numerical data about an important cause both meaningful and understandable to your audience. Social math is a design process of telling a story with data that will motivate your users to engage in the behavior you intend.
This half-day course is appropriate for all levels of experience. The lessons focus on introducing the concept of social math and detailing a method to design using social math. Design activities provide an opportunity for attendees to practice using the method.
Attendees will learn:
How to define and identify social math
Why social math is an important part of an impactful design
When to incorporate social math into the design process
Where to find reliable data for designing with social math
A method for incorporating social math into their design
What additional resources exist for using social math
Guiding Users Towards Action: Empowering Decisions Through Effective Data DesignDesign for Context
How do you provide meaningful insights that lead to action? When designing a UI, we need to consider what data to display, how to display it in a way that helps users interpret its meaning, and how best to indicate what can be done based on the data and its meaning. Good design can help users quickly grasp a situation, make better decisions, and take productive actions. We will provide a framework that describes a progressive evolution of data displays and actions, and share a broad range of examples, from consumer products to enterprise web applications, to discuss ways to design effective data displays and integrate actions.
Lisa Battle and Laura Chessman, Design for Context, 01-Sept-2021, UXPA.org, Baltimore. More at https://d4c.link/UXPA21action Video available from https://uxpa.org.
UXPA2019 Forging Alliances with Project Management: A PM’s View of UXUXPA International
It is critical for Design and Project Management to be true collaborators in getting things done. This session aims to help UX practitioners advance their careers and be more successful in collaborating with individuals with different motivations and mindsets, and who often speak a different language. The session shares insights on Project Management and offers ways that the UX profession can help business understand the strategic value of Design within the enterprise.
The majority of the world’s enterprises still operate projects in a “traditional” sense. Project Managers are eager to learn more about Design (e.g. managing innovation), but frequently harbor trepidation or misunderstanding of UX and are unsure how to incorporate Design on their projects.
Join this session to learn how the strategic partnership between Design and Project Management can evangelize UX as a force for change and innovation and help PMs operate in a more flexible, discovery-driven world.
Big Data in Small Graphics: Microvisulaizations in SAAS and Enterprise Applic...UXPA International
The power of communicating data visually can’t be overstated. We often need to convey a lot of information at a glance to help expert users make quick decisions and work efficiently. For infrequent or novice users, a visual overview of a process or concept can provide orientation and help reduce the risk of mistakes. For all users, the micro-visualization is a small but powerful way to package detailed information in an easily digestible, visual form. Individually or arranged into arrays, these compact visual elements pack a huge punch, giving your users the ability to quickly assess trends, spot outliers, and identify priorities. This presentation will explore the use of data micro-visualizations to enhance user experience, the role of pre-attentive processing in your application’s visual language, and the impact of accessibility and responsiveness on both.
User experience doesn't happen on a screen: It happens in the mind.John Whalen
User experience is a vital component of mission-critical projects. The vast majority of experience is digital. We spend insane amounts of time and money designing UX for websites, apps and products to impress users. But the truth is UX isn’t a singular experience we can define. And it doesn’t happen on a screen – it happens in the mind. More specifically, the six minds.
Discover how UX is truly a collection of experiences occurring across six brain concentrations, each with their own processing styles and ideal states. And how, using psychological principles, you can uncover the conscious and subconscious needs of these six minds to appeal to users on cognitive and emotional levels.
You'll learn:
- How to run the right research on tight timelines
- How to plan research while still designing
- How object-oriented UX can improve the Agile process
Design Rationale: 10 Steps to Killing it in Design ReviewsUXPA International
Design Reviews help drive the conversation around design. A good design rationale describes what you want your design to convey. It proves to the audience that you’ve solved the design problem by justifying every element of your design, showing that each and every element plays a part in the design solution. A good design rationale constantly answers the question why, and leaves attendees with a clear understanding of your design concept. This workshop will break down the creation of a strong design rationale into 10 very doable steps.
In this course, you will learn:
The 10 steps to developing a strong design rationale
Exercises to help craft a compelling story
Different tools to get you started
How to deal with difficult people/strong personalities
Best practices to help you drive the outcomes you need
Participants will come away with the tools they need to be successful in their next Design Review. There will be time for questions and real-world practice as well.
As presented at HOW 2018 in Boston. This presentation focuses on a series of really simple research methods that can be added to any project. Also looks briefly at how to select a research method and how to create our own to fit a situation.
Know Thyself, and to thine users be true: Understanding and Managing Biases t...UXPA International
Despite our best intentions, UX practitioners are subject to hidden biases and barriers as any of our fellow humans. It’s more important than ever to understand our own biases to make sure we can be most effective in our communication and our design work. Increasing application of AI and machine learning as well as ever increasing amounts of data on people particularly are areas where hidden and unmitigated biases can create bad and even harmful outcomes. We explore ways to discover and discuss biases constructively before they undermine work, look at case studies of products that suffered from hidden biases, and consider pragmatic approaches to manage their influence in our projects
Presented by Karen Bachmann
Adversarial to Harmonious: Building the Developer/UX ConnectionUXPA International
Ever worked on a project where Design and Development blended like oil and water? Whether you're on a UX team of one, or designing with the help of a whole department, the success of your work ends up in the hands of a developer.
Teams with specialized skillsets and certain cross-team cultures can put up walls between designers and developers. We will deconstruct these adversarial relationships from real-world examples, then learn how to convince, collaborate, and co-create.
Being stuck in a storming phase isn’t good for you, your product, and ultimately your users. Bringing harmony to your team is important to your success and your sanity. Hone your best expertise to build relationships, handle differences of opinion, and learn to speak geek to be heard!
Walk out with tools and techniques to stay efficient and deliver the best possible experience for the real human beings who will use it.
When selling ourselves for our next job or project, we can use our Experience Design skills and a story-centered approach to craft an amazing portfolio and to interview successfully.
We will walk through the steps in the interview process from a user-centered approach, focusing on the online portfolio, the portfolio review, and the interview.
This talk will appeal to anyone starting out or seeking a job change by highlighting how you can set yourself apart in an already competitive field. With a user-centered mindset and a focus on telling a great story around your work, you can sell yourself and obtain the position you want.
Presentation for Taxonomy Bootcamp 2015 by Naomi Oorbeck & Jessica DuVerneay. Covers how taxonomy improved digital products, when to use a lightweight approach, planning & scoping lightweight work, and an overview of key skills and approaches to taxonomy development.
User Story Mapping for Minimum Lovable Productsuxpin
You'll learn:
How to visualize user needs instead of product features
How to make better decisions when prioritizing a UX backlog
How to align sprints with UX strategy
Great user experience design begins with great user experience teams and managers. This course will help user experience managers, leaders and aspiring leaders to create exciting, actionable strategies that will amplify the impact of their teams within their organizations. It will provide insights and approaches that have proven to be best practices across our field, and support their application to advance the strategies, overcome obstacles and drive change.
How to Use Website Strategy to Rise to New HeightsDesignHammer
Through years of experience working with clients developing websites to overcome organizational obstacles we have refined a process for gathering critical information. By determining what the website needs to do, we can design a blueprint to build a website with measurable success.
This presentation was provided by Serena Rosenhan of ProQuest, during Session Four of the NISO event "Agile Product and Project Management for Information Products and Services," held on June 4, 2020.
Aligning Your Organization's Strategic Direction, Roadmaps, and Technology, A...Design for Context
When driving, we use GPS to navigate in real time, with immediate recalculations around obstacles. We know our goal, and technology supports our movement. Yet association technology management is different with multiple departments travelling individual routes with interim destinations in the larger journey. How can we better use roadmaps to plan our technology journeys and keep everyone in sync? Gain insights to help you coordinate organization and technology goals across parallel initiatives and departments. Evaluate roadmap-building techniques, strategies for creating a common vision, tools to align member/user goals with organizational goals, and tactics to course-correct along the journey.
Red Alert! Communicating Status Through Great UX, Graphics, and AccessibilityDesign for Context
Presentation by Lisa Battle and Jennifer Chaffee from Design for Context, and Marguerite Bergel from Fidelity, at the 2014 User Experience Professional Association (UXPA) conference in London on July 24, 2014.
Communicating status and providing signposts to tell users where they are within an application or process is essential to a good user experience. Some clients still believe they can’t use graphics or color for important cues because of accessibility. In reality, graphic design and accessibility can work together nicely. Our presentation provides case studies in we consider these questions from a visual design, user interaction, and accessibility perspective:
- How can we make notifications “pop” on cluttered screens?
- What treatments are most effective for field-level errors?
- How can we handle multiple, simultaneous alerts to users of assistive technology?
We examine tradeoffs between different design solutions, and explore how good graphic design and accessibility can work together to improve experiences for the broadest range of users.
Social math provides a method for designers to make complex numerical data about an important cause both meaningful and understandable to your audience. Social math is a design process of telling a story with data that will motivate your users to engage in the behavior you intend.
This half-day course is appropriate for all levels of experience. The lessons focus on introducing the concept of social math and detailing a method to design using social math. Design activities provide an opportunity for attendees to practice using the method.
Attendees will learn:
How to define and identify social math
Why social math is an important part of an impactful design
When to incorporate social math into the design process
Where to find reliable data for designing with social math
A method for incorporating social math into their design
What additional resources exist for using social math
Guiding Users Towards Action: Empowering Decisions Through Effective Data DesignDesign for Context
How do you provide meaningful insights that lead to action? When designing a UI, we need to consider what data to display, how to display it in a way that helps users interpret its meaning, and how best to indicate what can be done based on the data and its meaning. Good design can help users quickly grasp a situation, make better decisions, and take productive actions. We will provide a framework that describes a progressive evolution of data displays and actions, and share a broad range of examples, from consumer products to enterprise web applications, to discuss ways to design effective data displays and integrate actions.
Lisa Battle and Laura Chessman, Design for Context, 01-Sept-2021, UXPA.org, Baltimore. More at https://d4c.link/UXPA21action Video available from https://uxpa.org.
UXPA2019 Forging Alliances with Project Management: A PM’s View of UXUXPA International
It is critical for Design and Project Management to be true collaborators in getting things done. This session aims to help UX practitioners advance their careers and be more successful in collaborating with individuals with different motivations and mindsets, and who often speak a different language. The session shares insights on Project Management and offers ways that the UX profession can help business understand the strategic value of Design within the enterprise.
The majority of the world’s enterprises still operate projects in a “traditional” sense. Project Managers are eager to learn more about Design (e.g. managing innovation), but frequently harbor trepidation or misunderstanding of UX and are unsure how to incorporate Design on their projects.
Join this session to learn how the strategic partnership between Design and Project Management can evangelize UX as a force for change and innovation and help PMs operate in a more flexible, discovery-driven world.
Big Data in Small Graphics: Microvisulaizations in SAAS and Enterprise Applic...UXPA International
The power of communicating data visually can’t be overstated. We often need to convey a lot of information at a glance to help expert users make quick decisions and work efficiently. For infrequent or novice users, a visual overview of a process or concept can provide orientation and help reduce the risk of mistakes. For all users, the micro-visualization is a small but powerful way to package detailed information in an easily digestible, visual form. Individually or arranged into arrays, these compact visual elements pack a huge punch, giving your users the ability to quickly assess trends, spot outliers, and identify priorities. This presentation will explore the use of data micro-visualizations to enhance user experience, the role of pre-attentive processing in your application’s visual language, and the impact of accessibility and responsiveness on both.
User experience doesn't happen on a screen: It happens in the mind.John Whalen
User experience is a vital component of mission-critical projects. The vast majority of experience is digital. We spend insane amounts of time and money designing UX for websites, apps and products to impress users. But the truth is UX isn’t a singular experience we can define. And it doesn’t happen on a screen – it happens in the mind. More specifically, the six minds.
Discover how UX is truly a collection of experiences occurring across six brain concentrations, each with their own processing styles and ideal states. And how, using psychological principles, you can uncover the conscious and subconscious needs of these six minds to appeal to users on cognitive and emotional levels.
You'll learn:
- How to run the right research on tight timelines
- How to plan research while still designing
- How object-oriented UX can improve the Agile process
Design Rationale: 10 Steps to Killing it in Design ReviewsUXPA International
Design Reviews help drive the conversation around design. A good design rationale describes what you want your design to convey. It proves to the audience that you’ve solved the design problem by justifying every element of your design, showing that each and every element plays a part in the design solution. A good design rationale constantly answers the question why, and leaves attendees with a clear understanding of your design concept. This workshop will break down the creation of a strong design rationale into 10 very doable steps.
In this course, you will learn:
The 10 steps to developing a strong design rationale
Exercises to help craft a compelling story
Different tools to get you started
How to deal with difficult people/strong personalities
Best practices to help you drive the outcomes you need
Participants will come away with the tools they need to be successful in their next Design Review. There will be time for questions and real-world practice as well.
As presented at HOW 2018 in Boston. This presentation focuses on a series of really simple research methods that can be added to any project. Also looks briefly at how to select a research method and how to create our own to fit a situation.
Know Thyself, and to thine users be true: Understanding and Managing Biases t...UXPA International
Despite our best intentions, UX practitioners are subject to hidden biases and barriers as any of our fellow humans. It’s more important than ever to understand our own biases to make sure we can be most effective in our communication and our design work. Increasing application of AI and machine learning as well as ever increasing amounts of data on people particularly are areas where hidden and unmitigated biases can create bad and even harmful outcomes. We explore ways to discover and discuss biases constructively before they undermine work, look at case studies of products that suffered from hidden biases, and consider pragmatic approaches to manage their influence in our projects
Presented by Karen Bachmann
Adversarial to Harmonious: Building the Developer/UX ConnectionUXPA International
Ever worked on a project where Design and Development blended like oil and water? Whether you're on a UX team of one, or designing with the help of a whole department, the success of your work ends up in the hands of a developer.
Teams with specialized skillsets and certain cross-team cultures can put up walls between designers and developers. We will deconstruct these adversarial relationships from real-world examples, then learn how to convince, collaborate, and co-create.
Being stuck in a storming phase isn’t good for you, your product, and ultimately your users. Bringing harmony to your team is important to your success and your sanity. Hone your best expertise to build relationships, handle differences of opinion, and learn to speak geek to be heard!
Walk out with tools and techniques to stay efficient and deliver the best possible experience for the real human beings who will use it.
When selling ourselves for our next job or project, we can use our Experience Design skills and a story-centered approach to craft an amazing portfolio and to interview successfully.
We will walk through the steps in the interview process from a user-centered approach, focusing on the online portfolio, the portfolio review, and the interview.
This talk will appeal to anyone starting out or seeking a job change by highlighting how you can set yourself apart in an already competitive field. With a user-centered mindset and a focus on telling a great story around your work, you can sell yourself and obtain the position you want.
Presentation for Taxonomy Bootcamp 2015 by Naomi Oorbeck & Jessica DuVerneay. Covers how taxonomy improved digital products, when to use a lightweight approach, planning & scoping lightweight work, and an overview of key skills and approaches to taxonomy development.
User Story Mapping for Minimum Lovable Productsuxpin
You'll learn:
How to visualize user needs instead of product features
How to make better decisions when prioritizing a UX backlog
How to align sprints with UX strategy
Great user experience design begins with great user experience teams and managers. This course will help user experience managers, leaders and aspiring leaders to create exciting, actionable strategies that will amplify the impact of their teams within their organizations. It will provide insights and approaches that have proven to be best practices across our field, and support their application to advance the strategies, overcome obstacles and drive change.
How to Use Website Strategy to Rise to New HeightsDesignHammer
Through years of experience working with clients developing websites to overcome organizational obstacles we have refined a process for gathering critical information. By determining what the website needs to do, we can design a blueprint to build a website with measurable success.
This presentation was provided by Serena Rosenhan of ProQuest, during Session Four of the NISO event "Agile Product and Project Management for Information Products and Services," held on June 4, 2020.
Aligning Your Organization's Strategic Direction, Roadmaps, and Technology, A...Design for Context
When driving, we use GPS to navigate in real time, with immediate recalculations around obstacles. We know our goal, and technology supports our movement. Yet association technology management is different with multiple departments travelling individual routes with interim destinations in the larger journey. How can we better use roadmaps to plan our technology journeys and keep everyone in sync? Gain insights to help you coordinate organization and technology goals across parallel initiatives and departments. Evaluate roadmap-building techniques, strategies for creating a common vision, tools to align member/user goals with organizational goals, and tactics to course-correct along the journey.
Red Alert! Communicating Status Through Great UX, Graphics, and AccessibilityDesign for Context
Presentation by Lisa Battle and Jennifer Chaffee from Design for Context, and Marguerite Bergel from Fidelity, at the 2014 User Experience Professional Association (UXPA) conference in London on July 24, 2014.
Communicating status and providing signposts to tell users where they are within an application or process is essential to a good user experience. Some clients still believe they can’t use graphics or color for important cues because of accessibility. In reality, graphic design and accessibility can work together nicely. Our presentation provides case studies in we consider these questions from a visual design, user interaction, and accessibility perspective:
- How can we make notifications “pop” on cluttered screens?
- What treatments are most effective for field-level errors?
- How can we handle multiple, simultaneous alerts to users of assistive technology?
We examine tradeoffs between different design solutions, and explore how good graphic design and accessibility can work together to improve experiences for the broadest range of users.
Keeping the Vision Alive: Techniques for Communication Throughout the Project...Design for Context
Video available: http://www.designforcontext.com/insights/keeping-vision-alive-ixd
Lisa Battle and Duane Degler, presentation at Interaction15, the IxDA conference, San Francisco, CA – February 9, 2015
Your vision is defined, your mandate is clear, and your team is energized. You’ve captured user needs and business considerations, your detailed design work is underway and focused on meeting these needs and the larger user experience vision. And then circumstances set in as the work continues… new technical constraints, scheduling functionality delivery to meet release cycles, necessary deviations from the vision to meet short-term requirements, scope adjustments, and so much more. As UX practitioners, we often face challenges “keeping the vision alive” as projects get caught up in constraints, details, and politics. But we can’t let those things derail us or take things too far from that solid, long-term vision.
In this talk, we discuss strategies and practical techniques to help teams stay focused on meeting long-term goals, while addressing short-term needs and facing the circumstances and challenges that arise through the design and implementation process. Some examples we show and discuss include: communicating project vision with executives, project leads, team members, and users; reflecting scope and progress; connecting specific features and user stories to larger design goals; and letting people know what to expect and when.
We also explore techniques we use as consultants to prepare the project team to hold the line on needed improvements, advocate for user needs, and build on the “big picture” over the long haul after the UX work is completed. Topics we will cover include: maintaining strategic perspective to support long-term, larger-scale objectives; planting seeds of understanding and ownership at various levels of the organization; and providing practical templates, guidelines, and decision trees to help support expansion and evolution in a way that maintains alignment with the larger intent.
Your library website visitors are having a user experience (UX) on your website right now. Do you know if it’s a good experience? Have you ever asked? And how can you improve it? This presentation will help make your website UX rock by providing easy-to-implement tips and tools to improve the experience your customers have while using your library’s website.
Is your website underperforming? If so, it could be for a variety of reasons. In today’s post I’d like to walk you through some common website issues we see. This will allow you to perform a do-it-yourself website audit checklist. My tips and techniques are written for real world site owners and I’ve made the list long enough to make an impact, but no so long that it feels like an impossible task to manage.
Designing Great Dashboards for SaaS and Enterprise ApplicationsDesign for Context
Presentation by Lisa Battle at the UXPA2016 conference in Seattle, WA, on June 3, 2016.
Many SaaS and enterprise applications today provide dashboards giving users an overview of how their business is performing and summarizing the work that needs to be done. Dashboards present a great opportunity to improve user experience by providing quick answers to users’ common questions, but they are also full of potential pitfalls for design. As UX design consultants, we are frequently asked to design (or redesign) dashboards for applications, and through that experience we have established best practices for dashboard design. We will discuss our approach to ensuring a good user experience for dashboards, focusing on 8 principles of UX design that are particularly relevant and illustrating them with real project examples.
Demystifying UX – A toolkit approach to better, cheaper & faster experience d...Harvard Web Working Group
On April 9th 2014, Mary Kennedy, User Experience, Product Design & Management expert, gave a talk entitled "Demystifying UX – A toolkit approach to better, cheaper & faster experience design."
UX / User Experience is booming as a practice and methodology. However, there is often misunderstanding and mystery around UX basic practices. Join us for a discussion of simple tools and processes to use as a reliable toolkit from project to project. Yes, they take time to complete but these practices in the early stages of design mean lower rates of change later in the project - translating to lower cost, faster timelines and more solid design decisions.
Demystifying UX – A toolkit approach to better, cheaper & faster experience d...dtremonte
On April 9, 2014, Mary Kennedy, User Experience, Product Design & Management expert, gave a talk entitled "Demystifying UX – A toolkit approach to better, cheaper & faster experience design."
UX / User Experience is booming as a practice and methodology. However, there is often misunderstanding and mystery around UX basic practices. Join us for a discussion of simple tools and processes to use as a reliable toolkit from project to project. Yes, they take time to complete but these practices in the early stages of design mean lower rates of change later in the project - translating to lower cost, faster timelines and more solid design decisions.
World Usability Day 2016 in Antwerp (Belgium), Thursday, November 10th - Jan Moons, UX expert and co-founder at UXprobe
"Hands on with Lean and Agile User Testing"
Jan Moons shows how to use the latest tools to easily integrate user testing into a lean process. Discover how user testing can be the answer for problems of conversion, usability, and UX quality. In the workshop you will explore all sides of user testing (be the user, be the moderator, be the client) and you will see how lean and agile user testing can be.
Jan is the co-founder of UXprobe, company that is focused on a mission of helping companies build great digital products that deliver a fantastic user experience. Jan has almost 20 years of experience as a software engineer and is a certified usability designer.
Optimizing Organization Frameworks for Applied DesignLynn Teo
The business benefits of Lean UX methodologies (reduced costs, greater team ownership and collaboration, enhanced product and market share etc.) are well understood by specialist industry practitioners. Organizations on the other hand, aren't always (a) comfortable engaging in "design" activities, be it Lean, Agile, or UX and (b) structured to facilitate cross-functional ideation and execution. I will share strategies that have worked for me in a variety of organization types, ranging from UX consultancies and in-house product teams, to a broad mix of agency types. My focus is to help you and your teams identify critical inter-discipline/department partnerships, cultivate soft skills inherent in collaborative design and ultimately influence the organizational framework so the advantages of design are formalized beyond process and execution.
Introduction to UX: Definition, Value, Differentiation, and ProcessJacqueline Conrad
> What is the Value of UX?
> What is User Experience?
> What does a UX specialist do?
> What is the difference between UX design
& visual design?
> What are common UX tools?
> Which projects require a UX architect?
> When should you engage a UX architect?
Practical Strategies to Designing Engaging PortalsKanwal Khipple
No one starts a project with the intent of building an ugly intranet. We always have good intentions to build the best communication and collaboration portal the company has ever seen. We ensure that executives and end users are involved to design and implement from a portal based on their experience. What ends up happening? Portals are built with too many links to content or even stale content, images that take too long to load or are generic. You even had good intentions to leverage many features and perhaps some are even using it. What you typically find is that after the initial buzz of the launch, adoption fails. Why is that? If that sounds like what you recently went through, then attend this session to learn the strategies and implement them tomorrow. Learn the key principles in building innovative solutions that are simple but capture user’s attention and increase adoption.
By the end of the session, you’ll learn
How to get executives engaged early and ensuring they don’t get in the way
How to effectively run requirement gathering workshops that are not IT focused
What UX strategies are effective in delivering intuitive user experiences
And much more
This session will be filled with examples and there will be giveaways to those that share their own journey.
Doing UX design in large organisations has its own set of challenges. It’s still relatively unknown in many industries but regardless of that, lots of UX teams are being mobilised for the first time in the organisation’s history. This challenge means that many professionals prefer not to work in large organisations, opting for workplaces where change can happen more readily. However, as the trend for businesses to create their own internal UX teams continues, a number of UX professionals are finding themselves in this environment. As client-side UX professionals in a newly formed UX team, we have had to figure out how to overcome all the challenges that this brings. Some techniques worked while others didn’t. Because change typically happens so slowly in large organisations, we have had to use creative strategies to stay motivated. By sharing our experience of embedding UX into a large financial organisation over the last 3 years, we will share our successes and failures.
By telling the story of our journey as a UX team within a large financial organisation participants will understand some strategies of their own to use in their own organisations. Some of these strategies not only help to further the cause of user experience design but also to stay motivated through difficult times.
User Experience Programme showcase lightening talksNeil Allison
Six lightening talks delivered at a UX Showcase session for staff at the University of Edinburgh:
- UX Programme overview
- Human Centred Design process proposal for digital production
- Experience principles and standards development
- EdGEL development case study
- UX Training for University staff
- Web strategy development process
Customer expectations are higher than ever and with disruptive new services coming into the market at a rapid rate, UX is a critical element of success.
Building a Solid Foundation: Usability & Information Architecture WIAD Tampa ...Karen Bachmann
Usability testing involves seeing your designs in action. When it comes to testing Information Architecture, evaluation needs to take place early in the project to ensure that the foundation is solid, scaleable and useful to the intended audience. In this session you'll learn what testing approaches support Information Architecture design and learn about pragmatic tools to ensure your IA can support a great and satisfying user experience.
A 45min workshop sponsored by General Assembly Boston at the 2015 BostInno State of Innovation conference
The presentation discusses factors that naturally occur as a product startup grows and how the user experience design process offers a path to continued success.
http://www.generalassemb.ly/boston
http://bostonstateofinnovation.com
A big thanks to @johnmaeda of @kpcb whose "Design in Tech" deck was an inspiration in creating this. Check it out here: http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/design-in-tech-report-2015
Slides Ian Multon recently used in his discussion w/ mentees of The Product Mentor.
The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals…Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People.
Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community.
http://TheProductMentor.com
Business Decisions Done Right: Through the Four Elements of User ExperienceFrank Guo
By capturing four key elements of user experience, we are able to help business leaders and product managers prioritize decisions by understanding what matters most to their target users.
Knowing that a problem exists is one thing. Knowing how to solve it efficiently and cost-effectively is another. Discover the core foundational requirements in UX and Design Thinking that are vital to the success of an application that gets optimal buy-in from your users. If you're looking to optimize data visualizations, dashboards, and reports for effective communication of key business metrics, this will put you on the right track.
Social Media and Social Networking using SharePoint 2010Netwoven Inc.
Learn the Social Networking capabilities of SharePoint 2010 that improves organizational collaboration & communication in-turn driving business value from the experts at Netwoven and AvePoint.
IA-for-AI: An evolving framework for a changing IA practiceDesign for Context
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dramatically changing—reshaping—the human and design landscape of computers, the internet, and society. It is increasingly used in engines behind many decision-making tools and information resources, as well as in machines (vehicles, drones, robots, etc.).
AI uses information models, structured data/content, real-world contextual sensor data, and formalized instructions to shape the machine’s “understanding” of information spaces and tasks. These elements are familiar to anyone working in the field of IA and UX. But the focus is changing: We now need methods to shape software that learns dynamically in real-time interaction with users.
This talk challenges us to engage in the transformational change to our practice, designing for and with AI. Alongside a reflection on our vital roles, I present an emerging Collaboration/Action Framework to support AI design, helping us think about language, models, methods, and how we communicate with developers and stakeholders. During the conference, rich conversations emerged within the IA community about how our involvement in creating responsible and engaging AI tools will change and shape the IA community over the coming years.
Duane Degler
https://d4c.link/IAC23
Discussion of various Design for Context website projects where archival collection information (data, images, categorization) has been incorporated with art object data, historical events data, etc. Presented to the Linked Art Working Group, which is developing standards for shareable linked data in the museum, archives and cultural field. Presented 16-Nov-2022.
With art/culture provenance information, dealing with the inevitable uncertainties and subjectivity creates challenges for modeling provenance as linked data. Over the course of a number of projects, Design for Context has worked with art provenance. In this presentation, we outline some questions and considerations for others.
Hello, meet Hola! Design for mixed-language interfacesDesign for Context
A global online user population necessitates the exchange of content from different sources, and the ability to aggregate multilingual content is a critical requirement within many research and business contexts. Mixed-language content provides a rich information set, while adding another layer of complexity and scale, which we can address through thoughtful UX design. To effectively reach a global audience and provide access to content in multiple languages, we must structure mixed-language content to support its successful presentation and delivery, and provide innovative designs that facilitate exploration.
In this talk given at the UXPA conference, we discuss real-world examples for:
– Presenting content in multiple languages so it co-exists well on the screen and in search
– Designing interfaces that support navigating, exploring, and understanding content available in multiple languages
– Structuring content to support a flexible, scalable multilingual information management approach
Some of the examples in this slideshow are from projects we have worked on, and some are not.
Good facilitation skills are essential for many content strategy tasks and projects. Guiding internal colleagues as well as external groups to shared, successful outcomes serves essential project needs, including: team and stakeholder consensus, a clear strategic vision, and the ability to see content in context.
An effective facilitator does this by considering and balancing multiple individual perspectives and priorities within over-arching business goals--while also keeping user needs and goals at the forefront. Design for Context’s Duane Degler discusses techniques and approaches to channel the passions and personal goals of each participant, effectively guiding the group towards successful outcomes.
User and Information Design Considerations for Effective Semantic SearchDesign for Context
Presented by Duane Degler, Design for Context, at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference in Alexandria, VA, on February 14, 2019.
Semantic search seeks to enhance the meaning in content, to more closely align the searcher and the available information resources. This means there is a strong user-centered aspect needed to unlock the benefits. What scenarios, needs, experiences, and mental models do our user bring to their search task? How does that inform our modeling of the “meaning” derived from the content? How do we avoid encoding rigidity of meaning by creating learning opportunities for both the users and the underlying search index and algorithms?
As we model content, we recognize that its character, structure, and context all matter. Alongside strategies for incorporating taxonomies and indexing the content itself, we will explore how you can prepare a knowledge graph that increases the potential for aligning meaning between your content and your users.
On the user experience side, we will introduce design approaches such as supporting iteration for exploratory search, modeling a language landscape, applying user context identification, creating feedback loops based on results selection and use, and using visual signposting for lightweight semantics in the user interface.
Know Thyself, and To Thine Users Be True: Understanding and Managing Biases t...Design for Context
Presented by Design for Context's Karen Bachmann at the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) Conference June 28, 2018, in Puerto Rico.
Despite our best intentions, UX practitioners are subject to hidden biases and barriers as any of our fellow humans. It’s more important than ever to understand our own biases to make sure we can be most effective in our communication and our design work. Increasing application of AI and machine learning as well as ever increasing amounts of data on people particularly are areas where hidden and unmitigated biases can create bad and even harmful outcomes. We explore ways to discover and discuss biases constructively before they undermine work, look at case studies of products that suffered from hidden biases, and consider pragmatic approaches to manage their influence in our projects.
Archives Strengthening Historical Narrative: Sharing digital and linked data ...Design for Context
Private collections provide engaging windows into little-known subjects that, when made discoverable, are incredibly relevant to many diverse audiences. The Texas Coastal Bend Collection (TCBC) is a digital-first private collection that offers rich insight into the culture of the Texas Coastal Bend ranching communities, starting with the Irish immigration in 1834. The site’s topic-based framework immerses people in the region’s cultural history. Rich, well-structured metadata (subjects, people, places, historic events, relationships) allows every page to be a gateway for exploring over 200 artistic photographs, 9,000 images, archival documents, books, maps, genealogies, and 1,400 hours of oral history.
We describe the strategies and tools that enable rich exploration of the TCBC’s unique resources, its maintenance by a small dedicated staff, and how meaningful digital connections with other institutions can foster storytelling across an array of subjects. The digital approach that underpins the TCBC, incorporating highly structured categorization, linked data, IIIF, and a unique audio player, provides insights that can be used by other museums and archives.
Going Global: The Intersection of IA and UX in a Multilingual EnvironmentDesign for Context
A global online community necessitates the exchange of content from many sources and across languages. Advances in the semantic web and linked data enable the aggregation of diverse content. Multilingual content provides potential for a richer information set while adding a layer of complexity to our projects. As information architects, we need to structure multilingual content to support its successful presentation and delivery. As user experience designers, we need to provide innovative designs that facilitate exploration of that content. How do different data modeling, linking, and ontology decisions affect the UX design? How can IA and UX support each other?
In this talk at IA Summit 2018 in Chicago, IL, USA, we focus on two specific areas:
- Structuring multilingual source content and enabling multilingual authors to contribute to a repository
- Designing wayfinding that supports navigating, exploring, and understanding content in sites that are sourced from multiple languages
Drawing from our experiences in the digital humanities space, we discuss real world examples for:
- Data modeling strategies, ontologies, taxonomies and metadata that support a flexible, scalable multilingual information management system
- Several multilingual data-driven interfaces and what they reveal about the challenges or opportunities in harmonizing multilingual content
- Patterns for displaying and navigating to content that is provided in different languages
Just as building and city architects can’t control every use and evolution of their spaces over time, it is also true that information architects need to anticipate – but not control – the various people who engage with information spaces. This includes regular inhabitants, visitors, and those who never engage directly with the space but have a more distant interaction – suppliers of goods and services, and people who are affected by the decisions and actions of those within the space.
Built spaces are not static, they are dynamic. The idea of designing your IA to respond to dynamic conditions is not new, but what does that mean in practice? How do we approach our work and the additional responsibilities that arise in these spaces?
We can create ecosystems that accommodate a range of different information sources and uses. We can also support the immediate goals and needs of the current stakeholders, while anticipating the long-term evolution of what we build. We will incorporate terms we know into our process – terms like adaptive, responsive, flexible, emergent, empowering – but with deeper meanings, as they have to guide the use of sophisticated information models and advanced/AI technologies.
This talk provides an overview of the dynamic information landscape, positions the role of IA firmly at the heart of its ecosystem design, and provides ideas for weaving this into your practice.
Integrating Taxonomies and Ontologies into Enterprise Search and BrowseDesign for Context
Presented by Duane Degler, on February 6, 2018, at the Data Harmony User Group in Albuquerque, NM.
Over the course of multiple search projects, we have found ways to increase taxonomy integration into search and browse. For users to get the greatest value out of your taxonomies, the structures need to be woven into the indexing strategies for search and browse. You also can incorporate capabilities into the user interface to help users interact with taxonomy terms in ways that increase usability and relevance. Ultimately, you want to leverage your taxonomies into feedback loops that help you refine both the taxonomy and the content over time. New features in Data Harmony can potentially extend your capabilities even further. This talk will briefly outline approaches for drawing the greatest value from your taxonomies for your users.
Presentation by Michael Owens and Lesley Humphreys at the Baltimore UX Meetup, on May 9, 2017.
As user experience professionals, we know that the principles of universal design benefit everyone: we should strive to make our information and our applications accessible to all. However, accessibility can seem like an overwhelming topic – where do we start? What are the guidelines? What is the UX designer’s role in the process? In this presentation, we introduce the standards, including the recently published WCAG 2.1 guidelines, look at some assistive technologies, and explore the types of deliverables that can be used to specify accessibility compliant interactions.
Presentation by Karen Bachmann at the UXPA2017 conference in Toronto, Ontario, on June 6, 2017.
Ethics is fundamentally about doing the right thing for people, not about complying with laws. Yet incorporating ethics into our design practice can be challenging. Even the discussion can make people uncomfortable. This presentation covers how to talk carrots (value) and not sticks (legality) to make ethics a core human-centered design constraint.
Split Focus: Designing Applications for Multiple Monitor SetupsDesign for Context
Presentation by Lisa Battle, Rachel Sengers, and Michael Owens at the UXPA2017 conference in Toronto, Ontario, on June 8, 2017.
The next big challenge on the horizon for UX in application design is not about the small screen—it’s about going large. Large monitors keep getting cheaper – and higher resolution – so many users working with SaaS and enterprise applications today have multiple monitors on their desks. It is frustrating for those users when applications do not scale well to a larger size, wasting screen real estate, and not taking advantage of the additional monitors to support side-by-side comparisons and multi-tasking that are common to knowledge workers in many domains. As UX design consultants, we are increasingly seeing opportunities to improve user experience and productivity for business users by utilizing multiple monitors. In this presentation, we discuss new UX design patterns and challenges that arise in software and web-based application design for multiple monitors, illustrating them with real project examples.
Perspectives on Open Source for Museums’ Digital ProjectsDesign for Context
Presentation by Duane Degler (Design for Context), David Newbury (Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh), and Robert Sanderson (The J. Paul Getty Trust) at the American Alliance of Museums 2017 Annual Meeting & MuseumEXPO in St. Louis, MO, on May 10, 2017.
Open-source software has transformed the technology industry, and the movement's goals of community and access align closely with our museums' missions. So why do our open-source projects so often fail to succeed? Three experienced panelists offer three different perspectives and discuss topics such as the role of community and how to foster it, the importance of maintenance and maintainers, Not-Invented-Here, reputation capital, alignment issues with grant-funded projects, business models for open-source projects, and long-term sustainability.
Micro-visualizations: Small Visualizations that Make a Big ImpactDesign for Context
Presentation by Rachel Sengers and Lisa Battle at the UXDC2017 conference in Washington, DC, on April 15, 2017.
We hear a lot about visualizations for big data these days, but what about small data? The power of communicating data visually can’t be overstated. When designing for expert users, we often need to convey a lot of information at a glance to help them make quick decisions and work efficiently. For infrequent or novice users, a visual overview of a process or concept can provide orientation and help reduce the risk of mistakes. Enter the micro-visualization, a way of packaging detailed information in an easily digestible, visual way. In this presentation, we present examples of several different types of micro-visualizations and discuss how they can be used effectively to improve user experience.
User Experience Design Considerations for Multi-Museum CollaborationsDesign for Context
We increasingly engage in projects where we are asked to accommodate multiple collections, sites, and institutions into the planning, data modeling, and overall user experience. And we see a trend where grant funders actively encourage collaborations, so these kinds of digital projects may become common. It is important to think beyond the typical patterns of grouping sets of objects into institution-specific views, or presenting a mash-up as if it is just one big collection. As we think about collaborations involving online collections, we have identified human-centered user experience considerations and requirements to share with the community.
First Impressions Matter: Onboarding for First Time UsersDesign for Context
Presentation by Lisa Battle at the UXPA2016 conference in Seattle, WA, on June 1, 2016.
What kind of first impression is your web or mobile application making? It may not be what you would hope. Many SaaS applications’ free trials are used only once. Sources say that most mobile apps are downloaded, used once and deleted. First time user experience, while critical to product success, may not be getting the attention it deserves.
During onboarding, a first-time user must transition from novice to an engaged, active and repeat user. They must immediately recognize what they can do, how they can do it, and why it benefits them. This talk presents design principles for great onboarding experiences that engage and inform new users, helping them become productive quickly. We discuss how to convey your value proposition, guide setup, remove barriers, streamline initial tasks via smart defaults, provide walkthroughs, and instruct at the point of use, drawing on examples from web applications, mobile apps, and devices.
First Impressions Matter: Onboarding for First Time UsersDesign for Context
Presentation by Lisa Battle at the UXDC2015 conference in Washington, DC, on October 9, 2015.
What kind of first impression is your web or mobile application making? It may not be what you would hope. Many SaaS applications’ free trials are used only once. Sources say that most mobile apps are downloaded, used once and deleted. First time user experience, while critical to product success, may not be getting the attention it deserves.
During onboarding, a first-time user must transition from novice to an engaged, active and repeat user. They must immediately recognize what they can do, how they can do it, and why it benefits them. This talk presents design principles for great onboarding experiences that engage and inform new users, helping them become productive quickly. We discuss how to convey your value proposition, guide setup, remove barriers, streamline initial tasks via smart defaults, provide walkthroughs, and instruct at the point of use, drawing on examples from web applications, mobile apps, and devices.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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WHAT IS A USER “EXPERIENCE”?
Anticipation and engagement
Social interaction
Expectations over time
Comparison with other experiences
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How people describe positive experiences
Engaging
Fun
Interesting
Unexpected
Successful
Productive
Smooth
Helpful
Reliable
Valuable
Easy
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• Immerse in the experience
• Support discovery and delight
• “Sticky”
• Achieve goals
• Support them through actions/tasks
• Remove barriers to progress
• Provide the right level of information
at the right time
• Maintain a trust-worthy authority
• Reduce puzzling / confusing moments
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Dimensions of User Experience
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USERS
Skills/experience
Needs
Expectations
Motivations
BUSINESS
Goals
Performance
Resources
Metrics
TASKS
Actions
Alternatives
Decisions
Outcomes
CONTENT
Relevance
Persistence
Standards
Clarity/focus
CONTEXT
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GOALS: USER & ORGANIZATION
Understanding the bigger picture,
knowing what is valued
Balancing competing priorities
Vision and direction
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Identifying your goals and your users’ goals
• What are you aiming to achieve?
• Strategic
• Tactical
• How do you define success?
• Quantity – e.g. tracking usage, transactions, bottom line, citations
• Quality – e.g. feedback, secondary effects, or just the right thing to do
• How do your users define success?
• How to translate that into what you offer?
• Where you focus for impact and value
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UNDERSTANDING OUR USERS
Knowledge, experience, language,
goals, motivations.
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User profiles . . . Broad needs and expectations
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User personas . . . Distinct characteristics
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Marsha Emily
Goals
Interests
Experience
Skills
Knowledge
domain
tech
Abilities
Location
Language
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SITUATION AND CONTEXT
What triggers the need for content
and interaction with your site.
Context awareness considers
who, what, when, where, why,
and how often…
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My meeting
starts in 5
minutes!
What will
give my class
paper a fresh
idea. . . today?
People frame an experience within a situation
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I need to
confirm my
hypothesis for my
book . . .
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Interaction with content is dialogue
?!
!!
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Meet you
at the Picasso
in the South
gallery!
Context frames tasks, particularly when mobile
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Dinner next
Saturday?
At the harbor?
Liu’s work
seems relevant
to my research.
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USER TASKS
An experience has multiple steps.
Even reading a single page of content
has a sequence of mental steps.
And you want users to do more than
engage with a single page of content!
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Framing a task
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Task
Inputs
Next steps
User
group
OutcomeTrigger
Context
Information
& Data
Interruptions
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Flows can change with platform and triggers
Request
approval
View req’d
course list
Search for
a course
View
description
Confirm
selection
Set
reminder
Read
message
View req’d
course list
View
description
Confirm
selection
Browse for
a course
Search for
a course
Finish
looking
View
course list
View
description
View pre-
requisites
Filter
required
Request
approval
Confirm
selection
View
related
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CONTENT & DATA
“Content is king” – and a user’s overall
experience with content and data involves:
• Finding and recognizing
• Understanding
• Synthesizing and managing
• Using, sharing
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Consider the whole navigational picture in your IA
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Content as a navigational center for experience
Search
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Seek
Type in the box
Evaluate
Assess results
Review
Assess content
Formulate
Strategy
Tactics
Activity
Refine
Adjust criteria & tactics
Seeking is an experience, often over time
Situation
Info Task
Achieve in the
search space
Goal
Achieve in the
world
Use
Apply what you
gained
Keep
Persistent
resource
Outcome
Degler/Phua 2011. Searching: How One Box Can Mean Different Things to Different People
http://www.designforcontext.com/files/jp-dd_search-mental-models_userfocus_20110916.pdf
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SITUATIONSIGNALS
Location
Co-occurring events
Date / time
Conditions
Devices / connectivity
USERSIGNALS
Usage patterns
Experience
Interests / profile
History
Community
CONTENTSIGNALS
Link relationships
Text patterns
Categories / keywords
Metadata
TASKSIGNALS
Outcomes / goals
Rules / requirements
Criticality
Sequence / status
Frequency for user
Relevance
has many
dimensions
Degler 2013. Supporting Relevance for
Users: A Design Challenge
http://www.designforcontext.com/publication
s/supporting-relevance-for-users
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PRACTICING UX
Getting started with research,
design and evaluation.
Techniques you can use today.
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Practicing UX
1. Answer key questions about goals & users RESEARCH
2. Define a plan and build out a design framework DESIGN
3. Get feedback early and often EVALUATION
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Practicing UX
1. Answer key questions about goals & users
• Interviews
• Feedback collection & review
• Site visits
• Facilitation (internal and external)
• Roadmap development
• Content analysis
• Data model/pattern analysis
• Reviewing other documentation in the organization
RESEARCH
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Practicing UX
2. Define a plan and build out a design framework
• User-centered design
• Information architecture
• Interaction design
• Graphic design
• Development and developer support
DESIGN
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Practicing UX
3. Get feedback early and often
• Quick expert review & recommendations
• Usability testing
• Analytics from use
• Longitudinal assessment
• Facilitated conversations
EVALUATION
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LOOKING AHEAD
Visual and interactive “language” evolving
Mobile app / web evolving
Platform-relevant interaction
Pervasive and ubiquitous information
Collaborative creation with your users
Information as a shared asset –
valuable, but with responsibilities
Deeper context / user awareness mapped
to content, modeled as linked data
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