UX STRAT 2013: Karen Pascoe, Implementing Lean UX Across PayPal: Lessons Learned

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Lean UX @ PayPalSharing lessons from our transformation

Karen Pascoe Senior Director, User Experience Design

Lean UX @ PayPalSharing lessons from our transformation

Karen Pascoe Senior Director, User Experience Design

Lean UX @ PayPalSharing lessons from our transformation

Karen Pascoe Senior Director, User Experience Design

The current payments landscape

Starting state: process centered

We needed to get back to our roots

Catalyst for change

Catalyst for change

How we started building product

Customer Centered

Design

Product

Technology

Customer driven design & innovation

Who is the customer?

What do they need/want to do?

Design concept for the flow and key screens

Validate designs with users

Improve design based on feedback

Prioritize needs & wants

Design

Product

Technology

A bit about design methods

A bit about design methods

Our Lean UX process

Conceptual Design

Prototype Test with actual customers

Learn from customers

IterateValidate Internally

Whiteboards, markers and post its.

Who needs a wireframe when you can code it?

Can we build it? Any business concerns?

How does this fit in to our design standards?

Live tests weekly with the whole project team in the lab What “didn’t”

they get?

Try some alternatives

repeat, repeat, repeat.

Our Lean UX process

Conceptual Design

Prototype Test with actual customers

Learn from customers

IterateValidate Internally

Whiteboards, markers and post its.

Who needs a wireframe when you can code it?

Can we build it? Any business concerns?

How does this fit in to our design standards?

Live tests weekly with the whole project team in the lab What “didn’t”

they get?

Try some alternatives

Core team: user experience designers, product managers and front end developers

Our Lean UX process

Conceptual Design

Prototype Test with actual customers

Learn from customers

IterateValidate Internally

Whiteboards, markers and post its.

Who needs a wireframe when you can code it?

Can we build it? Any business concerns?

How does this fit in to our design standards?

Live tests weekly with the whole project team in the lab What “didn’t”

they get?

Try some alternatives

Core team: user experience designers, product managers and front end developers

Special guest stars: architects, product architecture, subject matter experts (legal, risk & regulatory)

Scaling our process

Scaling our process

Where we’re at today

Lean UX:Define the experience

Agile:Build the experience into the full tech stack

Our design phase doesn’t need to follow formal Agile cadences, and we’re OK with that

Our full enterprise team likes formal agile cadences, and we’re also OK with that

Where we’re at today

Lean UX:Define the experience

Agile:Build the experience into the full tech stack

Our design phase doesn’t need to follow formal Agile cadences, and we’re OK with that

Our full enterprise team likes formal agile cadences, and we’re also OK with that

Barriers

Barriers

Lessons learned

• We all need to be in the same place

• Muscle memory is hard to overcome

• Don’t stay “black ops” for long

• This could have been easier w/o

legacy

Implications for Design

• Designers are perfectionists

• Consistency requires investment

• We need to iterate our user insight

• We have more to do

Implications for Design

• Designers are perfectionists

• Consistency requires investment

• We need to iterate our user insight

• We have more to do

Q&A

Thank You :)

Reach out via LinkedIn if you have questions or want to connect

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