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Don't Just Deliver, Delight!
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UX 19 Years
PhD. Human Factors
TW 6 years
Multi-platform
Multi-skilled
Financial Services, Retail,
Media etc

About Marc
About Linz

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UX 15 Years
TW 4 years
Multi-platform
Multi-skilled
Telecom, TVDigital,
Financial services etc
What we’re talking about
!   The Problem Space
!   A Solution Framework
!   Actionable Advice – how you do it
A quick plotted history…

£££
The Problem Space

IT

ks
IT fol

Business

Business
folks
Business

£££
IT

£££
!
IT

Business
Customer
“I want it
faster and
cheaper”

IT

!
“I want it to
be easier”
Agile

IT

Business

UX
Agile
Agile

Stories
Agile

Backlog
24
hrs

Bac
klo
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2-

4w
eek
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Deliverables
Stories
Agile

Backlog
24
hrs

Bac
klo
g

2-

4w
eek
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Deliverables
Stories
Agile – not so good

Viable ideas implemented quickly,
that are feasible but not
necessarily desirable
UX
UX
UX
UX
UX

?!!

Build

Test
UX

Build

?!!
Test
UX – what’s not so good

Big ideas that may
not be feasible,
done slowly…
Agile

!
IT

Business

UX
A solution framework
AXD
IT

Business
Envision
Showcase
Test & Learn
Improve

Evolve

Deliver
Envision

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Envision
Envision
Deliver
24
hrs

Bac
klo

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2-

4w
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Deliver
24
hrs

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2-

4w
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Deliver
Evolve

25%

25%

25%

25%

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So how do we do it
Envision
Showcase
Test & Learn
Improve

Evolve

Deliver
Looking in…

your colleagues are a rich source of inspiration
Looking in…

other departments may already have research
Looking outside

Watching customers can be a revelation!
Looking outside

Your competitors can provide stimulus too
The wall is the new desk Dave Gray
Darren
(Is a customer whose life is
touched by the product we
are building)

(not these)

ments
seg

actors
colleagues
Looking in
Looking out

Lot of
design ideas
Do ‘Design Thinking’

customers
Collaborative design thinking
Rapid prototyping
(2 weeks)
Big up
front
Design
“Rent a warehouse and build a prototype
of a store… go build 20 of them,
then discover it didn't work…”
Apple Store is the most profitable shop in London
Sources: Steve Jobs in Fortune Magazine March 8 2007 Verdict Global Retail Freview Aug 2010
At Sony we assume that all products of our
competitors have basically the same
technology, price, performance and features.
Design is the only thing that differentiates
one product from another in the
marketplace.
Norio Ohga
Former Chairman and CEO, Sony
Design
Envision
Showcase
Test & Learn
Improve

Evolve

Deliver
Collaboration culture
Co-located*

Business

Creative

Tech

UX

*Yes, offshore is possible
“I’m glad we’re all agreed then.”

“Ah...”

“Ah...”

“I’m glad we’re all agreed then.”
Working Together

Business

Creative

Tech

UX
Personas

Content

Navigation

Interaction

Information architecture
Stories Wire
frames

Look &
feel

Testing
spikes

Creative concept
Mood boards

Creative flats

Collateral

Styleguide
Information architecture
Stories Wire
frames

Look &
feel

Testing
spikes

Creative concept
Release

Envisioning

Iteration 1

Iteration 2

Iteration 3

Dev

Inception

Dev

Dev

BA&UX

BA&UX

BA&UX

Iteration n

Dev

Envision

Creative, UX spikes, UI dev, User testing
Never 45%
Rarely 19%
Sometimes 16%
Often 13%
Always 7%

Feature usage in deployed apps
Source: The Standish Group
✗ Card slot
✗ 3g
✗ Bluetooth
✗ Infrared
✗ Decent camera
✗ Secondary camera
✗ Camera flash
✗ MMS
✗ Radio

✗ Video
✗ Video calling
✗ TV out
✗ Music ring tones
✗ Voice dialing
✗ Voice commands
✗ GPS
✗ JAVA
✗ Push to talk
Focus on the
delightful
minimum viable product
^
“Here’s a tip, pack it and halve it”
Lonely Planet
Experiences
Not a
product
backlog
Envision
Showcase
Test & Learn
Improve

Evolve

Deliver
Design evaluationUsability testing

Customer
Continuous design

Continuous delivery
Actionable advice
(how you can do it too)

Research…

Design…
Specification…

Stories…
Testing…
Build…
Teamwork…

Governance…

Manage
Expectations…
Don't Just Deliver, Delight!
Key takeaways
!   Projects don’t start at Dev
!   Create a vision and use visual thinking
!   Do just enough & get rid of waste
!   Collaborate, co-locate, communicate
!   AXD It’s not easy but it’s worthwhile
Marc McNeill

Lindsay Ratcliffe

mmcneill@thoughtworks.com

lratcliffe@thoughtworks.com

dancingmango.com/blog

guigrrrl.blogspot.com

Twitter: dancingmango

Twitter: guigrrrl

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