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Convergence of UX and Technical Communication
Pam NoreaultTwitter @pnoreault
LavaCon 2014
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Me
• ACI Worldwide• Sr. Mgr Information Development• 22+ years experience• Gadget geek• People watcher
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Convergence
1. Why?
2. Start Here
3. When/how to Engage
4. Overall Strategy
5. Content Strategy based on Customer Engagement Results
6. Success Measures
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Why?
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UX Convergence
If customers rule, companies must converge user experience designers (UXD) and technical writers under the user experience (UX) umbrella
Trainers and UI designers belong as well
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Poll Question
How many of you work for companies that have done this convergence?
•Yes, we have converged•No, not happened•No UXD where I work
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Interested? Start Here
• Who talks to customers?• Listen, learn, apply – REPEAT
• It’s not about asking what your customers want, it’s about understanding how they work
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Strategies
• Listen• Observe• Interview• Contextual interviews • Usability tests• Card sorts• Surveys
• Consumer communities, partner programs, focus groups
• Prototyping• Task analysis
(observe users doing tasks)
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Opportunities
• Collaborate with those who talk to customers
• Social media– Review LinkedIn and other forums related to
your company’s line of business– Monitor your customers on Twitter– Monitor your own company’s tweets – Find Facebook chatter
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Get Creative
• Mine from social networking sites• Join LinkedIn groups and ask questions
and post surveys• Seek input from people who represent
the same personas as your users
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Poll Question
Are you engaging with your customers directly prior to starting a project?
•Yes•No
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Create the Strategy
Engagement Types
Schedule
Determine How to Use InfoMeasure Success
Keep the Conversation
Going
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Strategy Example
Two major releases this year, I am going to:
Step 1 – Engagement types• Complete five customer interviews• Observe same five customers using our product• Pull the user assistance-related support cases
that have been opened in the past year
Step 2 - Schedule
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Strategy Example
Step 3 – Information Use• Improve my deliverables• Create different deliverables that better meet customer
needs
Step 4 – Measuring Success• Complete validating testing with customers
Step 5 – Keep conversation going• Share the improvements made and new deliverables
with these five customers
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Measure Success
• Measure “time on task”• Measure the reduction in support calls
around issues you addressed • Ask customers to tout the positive
experience (case studies, testimonials, email/call to your manager or support mgr, tweet, comments in company or social media forums, etc.)
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Real World - Validation
1. Online Help
2. Content Uplift
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Report Your Results
• Decreased activity time • Increased customer satisfaction with
your deliverables • Reduced support calls around the issues
you addressed • Positive PR from customers (What’s
better than positive PR!)
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Poll Question
How many of you are validating project deliverables with customers?
•I’ve thought about doing this•Yes, I do this•No, who has time for validation
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Repeat!
Engagement Types
Schedule
Determine How to Use InfoMeasure Success
Keep the Conversation
Going
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Just Do It
• UX convergence is happening• Customer engagement is not a fad
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Call to Action
• Obtain a UX certificate or degree
• Take online classes that focus on user research, measuring customer satisfaction, or accessing customer needs
• Attend free webinars on intelligent content, user research, measuring customer satisfaction, or accessing customer needs
• Network and partner with UX professionals
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Recap
1. Why?
2. Start Here
3. When/how to Engage
4. Overall Strategy
5. Content Strategy based on Customer Engagement Results
6. Success Measures
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Questions?
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Keep the Conversation Going
Pam Noreault – Sr. Mgr Information Development
• [email protected] • [email protected]• Twitter – @pnoreault• LinkedIn – Pam Noreault
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Further Reading
• Goodman, Elizabeth; Kuniavsky, Mike; and Moed, Andrea.
Observing the User Experience, Second Edition: A Practitioner’s
Guide to User Research. Waltham: Elsevier, 2012.
• Gothelf, Jeff. Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve
User Experience. Sebastopol: O’Reilly, 2013.
• Lea, Wendy. “The New Rules of Customer Engagement,”
Inc.com. Inc Magazine, 5 April 2012, accessed 16 February
2014.
• “User Research Basics,” Usability.gov. US Department of Health
& Human Services, 6 June 2013, accessed 16 February 2014.
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