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Finding Balance

Bringing perspectives together to find the best solution.

User Needs

Business Goals

Ideal Solution

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Card Sorting

Sort the cookies you have been given in a way that makes sense for your role

Zoo Keeper Veterinarian Teacher Butcher Grocery Store Clerk

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Card Sorting

Audience Participation – Tech-based

Your role: 5-y/o child Web Sort tool by UX Punk “Cookie Card Sort” on our website

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Card Sorting

Audience Participation – The old fashioned way

Your role: 5-y/o child Sort the cookies you have been

given in a way that makes sense for your role

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Card Sorting

The Results

Our awesome volunteers Our audience

“Cookie Card Sort Results” on our website

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Card Sorting

Optimal Sort by Optimal Workshop

“Optimal Workshop Results” on our website

A test you can take in your free time: “Optimal Workshop Example Test”

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Card Sorting

In-Person card sorts work too

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Card Sorting

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Paper Sketching

Sketching allows all stakeholders to explore and evaluate ideas in a non-technical way.

Idea Generation Collaboration Rapid Development

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Paper Sketching

Idea Generation: If you can’t afford to throw it away, then it’s not a sketch.

Wired, ”Concept Sketches” via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.

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Paper Sketching

Collaboration: Sketching is a group activity, where design ideas arise from conversation.

Thomas Magdi [2003] Light bulb changer. US 6826983 B1

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Paper Sketching

Rapid Development: Allowing non-technical people to participate in a common way.

Wired, "Microsoft Mouse Prototypes” via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.

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Practical Sketching

Sketches should capture the form and function of the user-experience.

You don’t need to be an artist Elements of a sketch Warm-up exercises

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Practical Sketching

You don’t need to be an artist: Focus on the essence of an idea, sacrificing other details.

Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html.

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Practical Sketching

Elements of a sketch include shapes, symbols an annotations; all learned through practice.

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Practical Sketching

Interface elements provide a time-component to the design and allow for testing.

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Practical Sketching

loft42, ”Wireframes and such…” via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.

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Practical Sketching

Warm Up : Sketch a low fidelity wireframe

glasscpa.com

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Technologies for Sketching

Sketching technologies make it easier to modify, extend and duplicate designs ideas.

Slideshows Graphic Design Diagraming Web-Based Tools

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Slideshow Software include drawing and shape libraries, transitions, and hyperlinks.

MS PowerPoint Keynote Google Presentation

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Diagraming: Microsoft Viso

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Web-Based wire framing tools are designed for collaboration; many built for UX testing.

Cacoo HotGloo Many more…

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A Cacoo example…

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A design problem: united.com

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Testing Illustrations

Illustrations allow us to test early, test often…

Samuel Mann, ”Projects Paper-based Prototyping” via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.

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