Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the landscape of User Experience (UX) design, both as a tool for designers and as a component within the experience. AI as a Tool for UX Designers AI empowers UX Designers to work smarter, not harder, automating tedious tasks and providing valuable insights. Automating Repetitive Tasks Personalizing User Experiences Improving Usability Testing … Read more
“Product” can be a physical object, software, a service, or a combination of these. “Market” can refer to target audience segments, ideal customer profiles, personas, or a combination. The “fit” is the magic. “Product-market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.” -Marc Andreessen, co-author of Mosaic, co-founder … Read more
Persona-driven Agile Development is a methodology that combines the human-centric focus of personas with the iterative and flexible nature of Agile methodologies. This approach helps ensure that the products being developed align closely with the needs and goals of the target customer by keeping them at the center of the development process. 1. Create Personas … Read more
While attending San Diego’s Medical Device and Technology Network meetup, the always wonderful Dr. Joely Gardner, author, speaker, and industry leader human factors and usability testing expert in medical devices, software, and web-based applications, shared with us insightful, real-life stories from the field. One of the things that Dr. Gardner shared is the FDA change from “User … Read more
Finding the right sample size is a tradeoff between the number of participants in the study and the ability to detect problems. The larger the sample size, the more problems that get uncovered. There is however a diminishing return as fewer new problems get uncovered with each additional user. And not all problems uniformly affect … Read more
Overview Skinit is the global leader in consumer electronic device personalization. In 2007 Skinit was preparing to enhance the previously successful Photo Uploader, a web-based application that allows consumers to upload their own photos and manipulate designs for their personal electronic devices. Darryl Kuhn, Skinit CTO, reached out to me to help with the redesign … Read more
The level of user experience effort that is practical for a given release depends, to some extent, on the type of release—that is, whether it is a major release, a minor release, or an update. Table 1 provides a summary of guidelines for the UX effort that is recommended for each type of release. Table … Read more
You need to decide how much user research, design, and usability testing you can afford. This depends on your competitive market, business objectives, and release cycles. During the early phases of a product development lifecycle, activities include conducting market, customer, and competitive user research. User research may include surveys, focus groups, interviews, and contextual inquiries. … Read more
During User Experience (UX) design, develop diagrams of various users’ workflows, noting where they are similar or different. Next, based on your findings, group your customer and user types by similar roles, and create profiles or personas that synthesize users’ skills, patterns, and goals to better understand their needs. Companies in mature markets may not … Read more
Product designers have tools they use to define activities, tasks, actions, and operations such as activity diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes. Product Design develops prototypes to elicit customer feedback to validate the solutions activities, tasks, and actions meet their needs. Wireframes are a quick and easy way to prototype a design for feedback. Wireframes are a … Read more
OK, that got your attention… Sometimes the best way to satisfy a customer’s need is to ignore their suggestions. Customers have ideas about incremental improvements to their workflow, but if we develop something that is truly innovative, our ideas probably won’t make sense to existing customers. Sometimes when we solve a market problem, our solution … Read more