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In this week's UX Power Up, Frank covers the not so widely discussed topic of personas as roles. Using personas for UX design goals requires you to think of your users by their role, not their demographic data. Frank provides some tips for how to work with your personas so they are more functional in your user advocacy process.
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Hi Frank Spillers here founder of Experience Dynamics and it's time for this week's UX Power Up! So, today's topic is Empathy Mapping...
Empathy mapping is one of the design research techniques that you can do very easily and its purpose is to help you gain that 'walk in the user's shoes', to gain that perspective from their eyes and it achieves this by having you map out in sensory language- so what the user is thinking, feeling, hearing, saying and things they are doing. It's about bringing that experience in concrete terms with their statements or their thoughts and feelings- remembering their pain points, things that motivate them as well- their gains are good to have on that empathy map.
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In this week's UX Power Up, Frank discusses a Lean UX tactic for developing rapid wireframe ideas...the Design Studio. Design Studios help teams cross-pollinate, but they have a downside too...
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Hi Frank Spillers here, Founder of Experience Dynamics and its time for this week's UX Power Up. In today's UX Power Up, I'd like to talk about Design Studios. So Design Studios are not places where you go to design in a UX studio or something, they are actually just a term that's come from Lean UX- an efficiency methodology and approach to developing better user experiences.
The Design Studio is basically a collaborative workshop. What we do in Design Studios is a collaborative workshop with stakeholders and so you might include developers, designers, you might include Directors and in smaller companies more senior management roles.
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In this week's UX Power Up, Frank covers the insanely important topic of UX maturity and what it takes to build a strong culture of UX.
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Defining UX (UX is shorthand for user experience) might sound like a dumb question, but it’s often a good idea to define what seems like the obvious. In this week’s UX Power Up, Frank gets you thinking about the surface definition and the deeper definition of user experience.
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What is UX, Really?
Frank Spillers here, founder of Experience Dynamics, and it's time for this week's UX Power Up.
So, today I'd like to ask the very basic question, What is UX?
One of the reasons why I think this question doesn't get defined very often is, UX is a lot of things. So, UX stands for User Experience, and what is it? Let's talk about it.
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If you could summarize the goal of your user experience efforts, the term user engagement would come up. Engagement is how we stay connected to our users interests, motivations and goals. In this week's UX Power Up, Frank covers two UX Design elements that define engagement.
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User Engagement
Frank Spillers here, founder of Experience Dynamics, and it's time for this week's UX Power Up.
So today's topic I'd like to talk about User Engagement.
Now user engagement is, quite simply, getting a users attention and keeping it. So anything that helps a user stay focused on a page or screen that they are working on; anything that helps identify their target - whether it's a button or a menu or other item or element on the screen; anything that retains their ability to stay focused within the task and continue that flow is crucial.
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On mobile, tapping the right target at the right time is critical, since users are often engaged in motion with one finger and one eyeball. In this week's UX Power up, Frank discusses why it's so important to remember the fat finger rule.
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Fat Finger Friendly
Frank Spillers here and it's time for this week's UX Power Up.
So today we are talking about a mobile UX law, which is what I call the Fat Finger Friendly rule.
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Sure Responsive Web Design is important to make sure your site looks good on all sorts of devices, but beyond that what can you do to elegantly enhance your user experience? In this week's Power Up, we discuss the cousin of responsive web design that is used to specifically deepen context of use, a crucial element of any user experience strategy.
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Adaptive Design
Hi, Frank Spillers here founder of Experience Dynamics and it's time for this week's UX Power Up.
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If everything is about the content, then why not design especially for it? Designing for mobile and responsive usage drives us to favor content over "chrome" (user interface). In this week's UX Power Up, Frank covers a new approach to thinking about design layouts, called Content First.
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Content First
Frank Spillers here, founder of Experience Dynamics. It's time for this week's UX Power Up.
Today in our mobile UX series, I'd like to talk to you about an approach that more and more folks are adopting that I call Content First.
Content First is a cousin to the approach that's called Mobile First. Which is kind of almost a philosophy or approach to saying, hey what would it be like in mobile paradigm where you have constrained resolution, you have context of use to think about, as someone is interacting with your mobile content.