MongoDB World 2018: The Value of UX: Communication and Connection
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This document discusses the importance of user experience (UX) design. It emphasizes empathizing with users, considering their needs, brainstorming creative solutions, prototyping ideas, and gathering feedback. The document also highlights how to make design more inclusive by considering people with visual, hearing, motor, or cognitive impairments. Color-coded charts can exclude some users so patterns are preferable. Accessible design ensures all people can use features. UX is important for overall project success, reduced costs, and increased revenue.
MongoDB World 2018: The Value of UX: Communication and Connection
- 1. Value of User Experience Regine Gilbert, Sr. UX Design Consultant Gilbert Consulting Group, Inc.
- 2. Value of UX Regine Gilbert @reg_inee 2 We are all Designers! Empathize | Learn about your audience Who is my user? What matters to this audience? Define | Create a point of view What are their needs? Brainstorm | Come up with many creative solutions Wild ideas encouraged! Build a representation How can I show my idea? Prototype is a rough draft! Share and ask for feedback What worked? What didn’t?
- 3. Value of UX Regine Gilbert @reg_inee 3 What to keep in mind. Visual Blindness, low vision, color blindness Hearing Deafness and hard of hearing Motor Inability to use a mouse, slow response time, limited motor control Cognitive Learning disabilities, distractibility, inability to focus on large amounts of information
- 4. Value of UX Regine Gilbert @reg_inee 4 A message from a father to a daughter I don’t know if this is something you’re doing, but this is something you and other graphics people should know. Do not ever ever ever make charts and graphs with color-coded areas or bars. I cannot come close to understanding those if there are more than about 3 colors. Just today I was reading an article that has a bar graph with about six or seven colors and I gave up after two seconds. Color coded charts and graphs are just another way for The Man to keep the brutha down. Don’t use colors. Use patterns. Colors look pretty but they are completely unintelligible.
- 5. Value of UX Regine Gilbert @reg_inee 5 Accessible Design? What do you see when you look at this photo? Who can use this entrance/exit? How will people enter or exit? How does this apply to the print, web and physical worlds?
- 6. Value of UX Regine Gilbert @reg_inee 6 Case in Point
- 11. Value of UX Regine Gilbert @reg_inee 11 Inclusive Design ToolsInclusive Design Tips • Get to know who you are designing for • Make inclusive design a part of every stage of product development • Design for uncommon uses first • Design with clear affordances • Assure color contrast is clear enough for those with vision issues, including color blindness and low vision users. • Wave Tool • NoCoffee • aXe • Color Contrast Analyser • Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools
- 12. Value of UX Increased overall project success rate Reduced development costs Potential increased in revenue due to stronger user adoption
- 13. Practice Makes Perfect. Set up a practice of incorporation inclusive design into web applications Select content and development tools that support inclusive design Look for opportunities to integrate User Experience throughout the process
- 14. How might we? How might we make better user experiences? Take a few minutes with people sitting near you and come up with some ideas !
- 15. Never stop learning. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” Plato
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