The document discusses the relationship and contrasts between user experience design (UXD) and digital analytics, emphasizing their overlapping roles and the importance of collaboration. It outlines the core functions of both fields while presenting case studies that illustrate how data-driven insights and user-centered design can enhance user satisfaction. The authors advocate for a strategic partnership between UXD and analytics to leverage each other's strengths for improved digital experiences.

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UXD v. Analytics
What have YOU got for me?
No, what have you got for ME?
eMetrics Summit
San Francisco, CA| April 17th 2013
11:15am, Room: Salon 7
Chris Farnum, Senior User Experience Designer, ProQuest
Farris Khan, Analytics Lead, ProQuest & BobbleheadGuru blogger
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Dramatis Personae
Digital Analytics Lead..…Farris UXD/IA………………………..Chris
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Introduction – UXD v. Digital Analytics
Where do these specialties overlap?
How are the roles different?
Why should they collaborate?
Got a question or comment?
Tweet: @BobbleheadGuru or @crfarnum
Hashtags: #eMetrics #UXD
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The ProQuest Search Platform
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Facets of the User Experience
From User Experience Design by Peter Morville
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What is “User Experience Design”
From The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garret
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Ecosystem of Information Architecture
Business goals
Brand strategy
Technology
Politics
Resources
Context
Document types IA
Apps / Functionality
Content Objects
Volume
Content Users Audience
Structure Personas
Tasks
Needs
Info seeking behavior
Based on Rosenfeld and Morville – Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
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Elements of IA/UXD
• Organization Systems How is content organized? By User
Task, Subject Category, Audience Type, Metaphor…
• Labeling Systems Links, buttons, labels, calls-to-action…
• Navigation Systems Sitewide navigation, local navigation,
utility navigation…
• Search Systems Site search interfaces, results pages,
indexing…
• Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata Systems of
terms used to organize and tag content
Based on Rosenfeld and Morville – Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
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Wireframes and Specifications
FIG 2: My Saved Articles FIG 2 Notes:
1. Page title
2. Count of all items in the list.
• Increments as items added
1 • Decrements as items deleted
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3. Link back to last set of search results
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5 4. Sort options:
• By date added – reverse chron
• By date published – reverse chron
• Alphabetical by title
6 5. Checkbox to select all items in the list
• Checking selects all items
• Unchecking deselects all items
6. Articles. Each item includes:
• Checkbox
• Number in list
• Citation – in same style as in
search results
• Date added – DD Mon YYYY
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The UXD Role at ProQuest
Core UXD
Design Processes
Prioritized Develop/Test
requirements
Planning
Iteration release Product
release
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The UXD Approach, In General…
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A newcomer to the department…
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Overlapping Territories? Competition?
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What is Digital Analytics?
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Ecosystem of Analytics
Object of Analysis:
Document, Library, Sy
stem
Metrics:
What?
Usage
Object of Analysis: Object of Analysis:
Visitor Attitudinal/ Behavioral/ Visitor
Metrics: Persona Observational Metrics:
Who? Why? Where? When?
Common Unit of Analysis
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Monthly Analytics Heatmap
Notes:
1. Data from March 2012 through February 2013.
2. Source: WebTrends and Internal data collection.
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Visits: Year-Over-Year Comparison
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Visits/Visitors
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Weekly Analytics Heatmap
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Year Over Year Visits Per Week
Thanksgiving (US)
Easter
Christmas
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Daily Analytics Heatmap
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Visits per Day
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Percentage of Visits with Error Pages
Notes:
1. Data from January 1, 2012 through March 17, 2013.
2. Source: WebTrends
3. Four “Spike Days”: Feb. 1, 2012, March 17, 2012 and March 1, 2013.
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Percentage of Visits with Error Pages
Notes:
1. Hour-By-Hour Analysis of March 1, 2013.
2. Source: WebTrends
Analysis:
1. This event occurred over a two hour period (10am through 12noon)
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Charts directly from tools can look… well…
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Like Uncooked Spaghetti
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Just one strand…
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Confidence Interval Analysis
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80% Interval Analysis
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Increasing Confidence - 80%, 90%, 95%
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The DA Approach, In General…
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Conversation #1 – three weeks later…
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It’s monthly report day, and Farris is looking hard at the data…
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Farris’ Question
“Why do some of our segments have
significantly higher satisfaction scores
than others?”
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80% Interval Analysis with Narrow Scale
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1st Order Report
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2nd Order Report
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3rd Order Report: NO High School or Librarians
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UXD Clue: Persona Driven Design
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Interpreting Satisfaction Data
I. 2nd year students are intermediate
researchers, therefore have highest
satisfaction.
II. 3rd year students are advanced
searchers and more likely to need
advanced search tools. Satisfaction
drops in 3rd year, so they may need
more attention.
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End of scene
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Conversation #1 – Summary
DA offers intelligence
via segment analysis
UXD offers context
via personas
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Conversation #2 – two weeks later…
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One morning Chris opened his email to find…
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Chris’ Question
“There’s a customer service request to
improve the ease of narrowing results.
Is there any user data that can give me
the background I need to design some
new approaches?”
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UXD: Do we need more options, less,…?
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DA Clue: Satisfaction Summary
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Model Question Summary
Higher Scores 
Legend:
Accuracy of Information (1.2, 8.1)
(Impact, Score)
Quality of Information (1.2, 8.1)
Breath of Content (1.2, 8.0)
How Quickly Pages Load (0.5, 7.9)
Consistency of Speed Page to Page (0.5, 7.9)
Ability to Load Pages without Errors (0.5, 7.9)
Readability of Graphics (0.5, 7.9)
How Well Site Is Organized (1.7, 7.5)
Balance of Graphics and Text (0.5, 7.3)
Area of Focus
How Well Site Layout Helps Find (1.7, 7.2) Relevance of Search Results (2.8, 7.2)
Organization of Search Results (2.8, 7.2)
How Well Search Results Help Selection (2.8, 7.2)
Options for Navigation (1.7, 7.1)
How Well Search Options Help Narrow Results (2.8, 7.0)
Visual Appeal (0.5, 6.9) Number of Clicks (1.7, 6.9)
Higher Impact 
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Open Ended Comments With Respondent Level Data
Narrow down their searches to
more specifics
Provide Tips for narrowing
Search
Provide more user friendly
narrowing devices
Be able to narrow search results
to only find articles with full text
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Confirmed…
I. Comment was not an outlier.
II. Improving narrowing options
should significantly impact
satisfaction.
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Conversation #2 – Summary
UXD needs background
info before design.
Analytics offers
quantitative 
qualitative data
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Conversation #3 – four weeks later…
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Farris’ Question
“I was preparing my monthly
report and noticed something
new. Page views per visit
dropped, but other statistics
remained constant. What does
this mean?”
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DA: Weekly Heatmap
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UXD: Updates to site navigation, database selection
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Answers and More Questions
I. Hypothesis - dynamic page
element and/or other design
changes caused page counts to
decrease.
II. No increase in satisfaction… yet.
Further adjustments needed?
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Conversation #3 – Summary
DA spots changes efficiently.
UXD can offer hypotheses.
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UXD v. Analytics - Differences
Digital Analytics User Experience Design
Quantitative Qualitative
“What did most users do?” “Why did you do that?”
Reporting trends Design decisions
Broad & shallow view Deep & narrow view
Big data analysis Live user research
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UXD & Analytics - Common Goals
Digital Analytics User Experience Design
Deep interest in user behavior
Want to increase user satisfaction
Desire to influence strategic decisions
By leveraging each other….
Does 1 + 1 = 3?
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Working Better Together
• Give UXD access to analytics tools
• Project collaboration
• Refine survey questions and KPIs
• Design informed by data insights
• Deeper analysis based on a richer understanding of user
personas and motivation
• Smarter user research – finding respondents, asking better
questions.
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Questions and Comments
Farris Khan
Farris.Khan@ProQuest.com
@Bobbleheadguru
Chris Farnum
Chris.Farnum@ProQuest.com
@crfarnum
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