Embedding UX in any Project

A hint or two...

Introduction

Marcel MaasAMIS Services@mhjmaas

Sander HaaksmaUX Company@uxcompany

About this session

• 30 mins

• Questions allowed :)

Agenda:

• History

• “Project Size” vs “Approach”

• Future

Once upon a time….

Then came...

www.andthen...

Web applications

Focus on UX in apps

Why can’t we get the same experience in our corporate applications?

So what happen(s)(ed) in many software teams?

Software development

What we actually need...

Often there is a missing ingredient

User Experience Design

The road to a successful UX Project

• Business value is key!

• It is not free

• Quickly visualize and validate

• Agile / Iterations

• There is no I in team

Fitting UX into Agile projects

Envision your product

Do just what is needed to communicate and validate your idea’s before development starts

Mid size project lessons learned

• Clickable wireframes

• UI Workshops every week to validate ideas

• Developer feedback during UX design

• Just in time UX design for the details

• Whole team must share knowledge

• Open up the design process

Then what about small projects?

• Visualize! (Especially now)

• Maintain the user feedback loop

• Get expert review

• Keep it small and informal

Big projects

• Some form of design authority is needed

• Regular UX meetings are needed

• Team should work close to each other

• Work with interaction pattern library

• High fidelity simulations

Recap

• Visualise and validate your idea’s asap

• Iterate (build, measure, learn)

• Involve end user as much as possible

• Teams create a great UX

• Accept “UX debt” in your project

• Create an environment where you can share UX knowledge

In the future

• A whole team is fully aware of UX

• There will be no more UX design role…

• More specific type of front-end developers in your team.

One more question...

Would you like a corporate application to have the WOW effect or would you like a highly productive system?

Productive Happy

How about you?

• How do you try to optimize the UX in your application / project?

• Have you worked with UX designers before?

• What was your experience?

Any questions?