the user is god
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From MeeGo Conference 2010, Dublin: http://conference2010.meego.com/ The importance of using an "official" Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) doc in the user-centered design process.TRANSCRIPT
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Presented by:
The User is God
Tim Samoff
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The Five Commandments of the User
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The Five Commandments of the User
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1. Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me
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The Five Commandments of the User
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1. Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me
2. Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
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The Five Commandments of the User
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1. Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me
2. Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
3. Thou Shalt Design With Me In Mind
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The Five Commandments of the User
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1. Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me
2. Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
3. Thou Shalt Design With Me In Mind
4. Remember My OS’s HIG and Keep It Holy
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The Five Commandments of the User
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1. Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me
2. Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
3. Thou Shalt Design With Me In Mind
4. Remember My OS’s HIG and Keep It Holy
5. Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s HIGs
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“The Bridge” Analogy
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App Developer Hell?
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Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
How do you feel?
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• Ask how a person will feel when using your app.
Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
How do you feel?
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• Ask how a person will feel when using your app.
UX is all about…
Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
How do you feel?
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• Ask how a person will feel when using your app.
UX is all about…• …the experiential, affective, and meaningful responses
a person has when interacting with with a system.
Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
How do you feel?
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• Ask how a person will feel when using your app.
UX is all about…• …the experiential, affective, and meaningful responses
a person has when interacting with with a system.– It is a user’s perceptions of the practical aspects such as
utility, ease of use and efficiency of the system.
Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
How do you feel?
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Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
How to approach UX…
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• Be a psychologist.
Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
How to approach UX…
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• Be a psychologist.• Test your apps on objective users.
Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
How to approach UX…
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• Be a psychologist.• Test your apps on objective users.• Follow a proven methodology (HIG).
Thou Shalt Create a Divine Experience
How to approach UX…
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Thou Shalt Design With Me In Mind
User-Centered Design
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• A release early, release often process in which designers solve problems by analyzing how users are likely to use a product.
Thou Shalt Design With Me In Mind
User-Centered Design
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• A release early, release often process in which designers solve problems by analyzing how users are likely to use a product.
• Important: Products should be optimized around how users can, want, or need to use the product.
Thou Shalt Design With Me In Mind
User-Centered Design
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• A release early, release often process in which designers solve problems by analyzing how users are likely to use a product.
• Important: Products should be optimized around how users can, want, or need to use the product.– Don’t force users to change their behavior to
accommodate the product.
Thou Shalt Design With Me In Mind
User-Centered Design
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Maemo• http://wiki.maemo.org/Legacy_Maemo_5_Documentatio
n/Human_Interface_Guidelines• http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/eb8a6
8ba-6225-4d84-ba8f-a00e4a05ff6f/Hildon_2_2_UI_Style_Guide.html
Remember My OS’s HIG and Keep It Holy
Get to know your HIG
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Maemo• http://wiki.maemo.org
/Legacy_Maemo_5_Documentation/Human_Interface_Guidelines
• http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/eb8a68ba-6225-4d84-ba8f-a00e4a05ff6f/Hildon_2_2_UI_Style_Guide.html
MeeGo• http://meego.com/developers/ui
-design-guidelines/handset
Remember My OS’s HIG and Keep It Holy
Get to know your HIG
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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s HIG
HIGs are OS-specific
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• If you really need your app to look and work like Android or iOS…
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s HIG
HIGs are OS-specific
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• If you really need your app to look and work like Android or iOS…
- Go there.
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s HIG
HIGs are OS-specific
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