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Becoming the Originalin Design
Borrys Hasian / @borryshasian / borrys.comHead of UX & Design, Rakuten Viki
orig*i*nal, n A thing of singular or unique character; a person who is different from other people in an appealing or interesting way; a person of fresh initiative or inventive capacity.
Source: The Originals by Adam Grant
Two Routes to Achievement
Conformity
Originality Following the crowd, conventional path. Supporting status quo.
Take the path less travelled, initially against the grain but eventually makes things better.
1Challenge the Default
Viki navigation bar before March 2015
The improved design. We cut down 67% of the items. Replaced some landing pages with an Explore Page and streamlined the content discovery flow.
32% 69%
An average conversion to the video pages.
115%An average increase in conversion to the video pages.
Old version Proposed version
The results
2Interact More with the Users
Remote usability testing with an existing user
Usability testing on the mobile app with a
potential user
Usability testing with random user
Episodes selection on a particular show
What we thought was better for our users: a simpler episode list.
What users need: episode thumbnail to get a feel before deciding to watch the show.
How do users rate shows?
Our decision to use 1-10 scaleOne of the user research methods to find out how
3Collaborate
Three factors to balancein innovation
Source: Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley
An engineer pasted this on my monitor
Sketchstorming with the engineers, product manager, researcher, and designers
Defining Viki brand experience. From SF to SG office.
The executives
Product managers
Designers
Engineers
Users
The improved homepage, launched in Nov 2015
9.6%People who navigate from the home
page to the video page
4Speed Matters
Image source: Google Design Sprint
2-5 days of design sprint.
5Be Better. Don't just use canned solutions.
Watch indicator. What others are doing (long bar) vs Viki (time left + simple pie icon).
Be Original and change things.
Stay in touch Borrys Hasian / @borryshasian / borrys.com
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