How to Be a UX Design Army of One by Dan Olsen at Silicon Valley Product Camp
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Talk on User Experience (UX) Design principles that I gave at Silicon Valley Product Camp on March 23, 2013.
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How to be
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Army of One
Dan Olsen
Olsen Solutions
Silicon Valley
Product Camp
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How to Be a UX Design Army of One by Dan Olsen at Silicon Valley Product Camp
- 1. { ] How to be A UX Design Army of One Dan Olsen Olsen Solutions Silicon Valley Product Camp March 23, 2013
- 2. My Background n Educa/on n BS, Electrical Engineering, Northwestern n MS, Industrial Engineering, Virginia Tech n MBA, Stanford n Web development and UI design courses n 20 years of Product Management Experience n Managed submarine design for 5 years n 5 years at Intuit, led Quicken Product Management n Led Product Management at Friendster n CEO & Cofounder of YourVersion (personalized news) n Product consultant: Box, YouSendIt, Epocrates n Speaker, Author “42 Rules of Product Management” Will post slides to hYp://slideshare.net/dan_o
- 3. UX Design Army of One n What is “UX Design”? n UX = User experience n Designing the product in a way that : n meets customer needs See my other talks n meets needs beYer than alterna/ves n delivers a great user experience Focus of my talk today n “UX” vs. “UI” (User Interface): UX is broader n Why “Army of One”? n Great UX takes diverse set of people/skills n Skills are o`en missing from your product team n Good product people fill cri/cal gaps Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 4. Gegng from PRD to Code Product Coded Product Requirements Document (PRD) Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 5. Gegng from PRD to Code UX Design Product Coded Product Requirements Document (PRD) Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 6. The UX Design Gap on Many Product Teams Level Define Design Code 1 Engineering 2 Product Mgmt Engineering 3 Product Mgmt Engineering Product Mgmt Engineering 4 PM Eng UI 5 PM Eng 5 Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 7. Dan’s UX Design Iceberg What most people see and react to Visual Design What good product people Interaction think about Design Information Architecture Conceptual Design Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 8. The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James GarreY Diagram available at www.jjg.net Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 9. User Experience Framework = Workflow for the Product Team Workflow Coding Product UI/Interac/on Visual Developer Manager Designer Designer Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 10. The Product A-‐Team Visual UI Designer Developer Designer Product Manager Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 11. Elements of User Experience Design Consists of Three Dis/nct Elements: n Informa/on Architecture n Structure and layout at both site and page level n How site is structured (sitemap) n How site informa/on is organized (site layout) n How each page is organized (page layout) n Interac/on Design n How user and product interact with one another n User flows (e.g., naviga/on across mul/ple pages) n User input (e.g., controls and form design) n Visual Design n “How it looks” vs. “What it is”, o`en called “chrome” n Fonts, colors, graphical elements 10 Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 12. Informa/on Architecture n Documents used n Sitemap n Show how sec/ons of website are organized n Show major naviga/on paYerns n Wireframes n Show the layout of components on a page n Does NOT focus on visual design n Black & White n No graphics n Templates for overall website and individual pages n Tools: Visio, OmniGraffle, Axure, Powerpoint, Word, Excel, Photoshop, Balsamiq, whiteboard Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 13. Informa/on Architecture Sitemap Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 14. Informa/on Architecture Sitemap Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 15. Wireframe
- 16. Napkin Wireframe 15 Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 17. Visual Hierarchy n Very important: impacts how users scan & read n Can you rank these circles in order of importance? Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 18. Visual Hierarchy is Cri/cal n Posi/on n Top more important than boYom n Le` more important (le`-‐to-‐right languages) n Size n Larger more important than smaller n Color & contrast n Brighter/higher contrast more important than darker/lower contrast Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 19. Visual Hierarchy Example Eye Tracking Heatmap 2 1 3 4 5 6 Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 20. Eye Tracking Heatmap of Google Search Results Page What’s going on here? Why the dropoff?
- 21. Put Key Info & Ac/ons Above The Fold Landing Page A Landing Page B The Fold Key action is above the fold Key action is below the fold 20 Copyright © 2009 O2010 YourVersion Copyright © lsen Solu/ons LLC
- 22. Gestalt Principles: How We Visually Perceive Objects n Figure and Ground n Similarity n Proximity n Closure Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 23. Grids Ensure You Have Good Alignment of Your Design Elements 970 pixel grid example 12 columns Each 68 px wide with 14 px guYer Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 24. Can Use Grid to Make Blocks of Varying Width Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 25. Wireframe Using Grid Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 26. Interac/on Design n Documents used n Flowchart n Combina/on of Wireframes & Flowcharts n Tools: Visio, OmniGraffle, Powerpoint, Photoshop, whiteboard n May build prototype using HTML, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, Flash, or paper n Usability tes/ng can help find problems 25 Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 27. Flowchart showing condi/onal logic Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 28. Napkin Flowchart Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 29. Combo Wireframe & Flowchart Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 30. Visual Design n Documents used n Mockups (aka comps) n Tools used: n Photoshop n Illustrator n Fireworks n Deliverables n Usually images n Can be HTML & CSS Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 31. Visual Design Mockup 30 Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 32. Visual Design UI Spec Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 33. Color Theory 101 n What are the primary colors? n A: Red, Yellow, Blue n B: Red, Green, Blue Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 34. Hue & Color Wheel Primary Colors Secondary Colors Ter/ary Colors Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 35. Colors are Specified as RGB Values n For each color, value can vary from 0 to 255 n Values are wriYen in hexadecimal (base 16) n Instead of 1 to 10, hex goes from 1 to 16 n Since we run out of digits, A thru F are used n A=10, B=11, C=12, D=13, E=14, F=15 n #10 = 16 in base 10 (1 x 16 + 0 x 1) Prize n #FF = 255 in base 10 (15 x 16 + 15 x 1) # 00 00 00 # FF 00 00 # FF FF FF # FF FF 00 Red Green Blue Red Green Blue Red Green Blue Red Green Blue 0 0 0 255 0 0 255 255 255 255 255 0 = Black = Red = White = Yellow Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 36. Tints, Shades, and Tones n Tints: adding white to a pure hue n Shades: adding black to a pure hue n Tones: adding gray to a pure hue: 35 Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 37. Specifying Color PaleYe Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 38. Fonts 101 4 common fonts: n Times New Roman n Courier! n Arial" n Helvetica" n How is Courier different than the other 3 fonts? n Most designs use 2 fonts n one for body text n one for headings Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 39. Fonts in a Browser n Web font choices use to be quite limited n Not any more, thanks to CSS @font-‐face n Other CSS proper/es for controlling text: n font-‐family n color n font-‐size n line-‐height n font-‐weight (bold) n font-‐style (italic) n text-‐decora/on (underline) n text-‐shadow (CSS3) Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 40. What’s your Weapon of Choice? n Visio / OmniGraffle n Powerpoint n Photoshop / Illustrator / Fireworks n Balsamiq n Others? Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 41. Design Ar/facts: Interac/vity vs. Fidelity Alpha Prototype Interactivity Interactive InVision* Wireframe Hand Static Mockup sketch Wireframe Fidelity *hYp://www.invisionapp.com 40 Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 42. Design Tools: Fidelity vs. Effort 3 Photoshop Product Design Fidelity Manager 2 1 Balsamiq Visio Visual Hand Designer sketch Effort to Create Artifact Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 43. Why Balsamiq Is Great n Super easy to learn and use n Widget library has most UI elements n Can annotate with s/cky notes n Can add click naviga/on between pages to illustrate a user story n Can export as PDF (so others don’t need to have Balsamiq), mul/ple pages in 1 PDF n Best $79 you’ll spend n hYp://www.balsamiq.com Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 44. But wait, there’s more! What I didn’t have /me to cover n Understanding and priori/zing customer needs n Iden/fying your product value proposi/on n User tes/ng and design itera/on n Measuring user experience with analy/cs n See my other talks on all of the above hYp://slideshare.net/dan_o Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
- 45. UX Army of One Cheat Sheet n Iden/fy & fill gaps in your Product A-‐Team n Be sketchy n Wireframe n Visual hierarchy n Gestalt principles n Flow n Mockups n Grid, Color PaleYe, Fonts Copyright © 2013 Olsen Solu/ons
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