the ux of user experience

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The UX of User Experience

The Legend ofJohn Frum

“John promised he’ll bring planeloads and shiploads of cargo to us from America if we pray to him”

“Radios, TVs, trucks, boats, watches, iceboxes, medicine, Coca-Cola and many other wonderful things.”

Cargo Cult Thinking

ObjectFetishisationThe Legend of

John Frum

UX Cargo Cult

The Cult of the Wireframe

Many people thinkUser Experience Design

is Wireframing!

Cargo CultPlane

The Cult of the Wireframe

Others view UX Designers asthe documentation people!

The Popular Viewof UXD

Designers who wireframeor

Documentation People

User Experience Doesn’t Exist

Photo by Marc Thiele CC Some Rights Reserved

'UX Professional' is a bullshit job title. It's just a way to over-charge naive clients.

Few people have actually worked with a proper UX Designer

A lot of the information about User Experience Design is lightweight

and potentially misleading

The tale of Mr McArthur Wheeler

Stupid is as stupid does

Dunning-Krugereffect

Confi

denc

e

Experience

There is adepth of knowledge

Don Norman foundedthe first UX team in the 90s

The UX Community has a Different View

The natural result of design

The way people perceive a product/service

Any more than pu"ing out a fire

Makes you a Firefigher

Designing your own home

Doesn’t Make you an Architect

The Idea that we’reAll Designers

Is Really Unhelpful

A specialised group

The natural result of design

The way people perceive a product/service

A field of practice

The UX Team

Is like a team of Marines

The StrategistThe Information Architect

The Interaction Designer

The UX Lead

Which makes me this guy

The Usability Researcher

A specialised group

The natural result of design

The way people perceive a product/service

A job

A field of practice

A role

A conceptual designer who focuses on what a product or service does,

and how it behaves,rather than what it looks like.

Defining the Damn Thing

Jesse James Garre"’s Model

User Experience DesignDan Saffer’s Model Information

Architecture

Architecture

IndustrialDesign

Usability

SoundDesign

VisualDesign

Content

HCI

Interaction Design

er

er

ExS Experience

Strategy

IxD Interaction

Design

UR User

Research

IA Information Architecture

So!ware design

Web design

Business strategy

Market research

Design research

Library science

Design strategy

Device interface design

Jason Mesut’s Model

Industrial design

Business consulting,

Marketing HCI

Psychology

What shape UX Designer are you?

Overinflationof UX

The Peak ofInflated Expectations

The Trough ofDisillusionment

The Plateaux ofProductivity

The CertificationDebate

Designers Rock

We need more of them

UX Design will always be a niche

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name

would smell as sweet

There is still room for Unicorns

Web Designers

Product DesignersDigitalFull Stack Designers

Be"er as a team

Than individual sparkel ponies

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