Top Trends In Product Design: Outcomes, Understanding Customers, and Building for Experiments

Top Trends In Product Design: Outcomes, Understanding Customers, and Building for Experiments

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2015 $280 Million2006 $1 Billion

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/mitchell-schnurman/20140426-buyout-blahs-at-sabre-7-years-and-a-lot-more-debt.ece

1996 Launched

2015 $120 Million2005 $1.2 Billion

http://skift.com/2014/12/16/bravofly-to-acquire-lastminute-com-for-120-million/

1998 Launched

WHY?

Focusing on the product…

Focusing on projects vs. Outcomes

Not involving customers vs. Being customer centric

Tech as support vs. Tech as experiments

Product Design Issues…

http://www.inuse.se/blogg/ux-mognaden-i-sverige-2014-och-hur-du-tar-dig-till-nasta-niva-inuseful/

UX“VP” “Director”

“CXO” “Manager”

“SVP”

Product + UX + Development

“Where are all the good Product Owners?”

CEO

http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-DFW/events/224616146/

San Francisco

New York

Seattle

Focusing on projects vs. Outcomes

Not involving customers vs. Being customer centric

Tech as support vs. Tech as experiments

Product Design Issues…

Not focused on

the right things

Slow, inflexible technology

UX

I need to care about…?

http://jessicaivins.net/blog/20130311-What-I-Learned-From-Teaching-UX-Part-1.html

http://www.brownwebdesign.com/blog/dont-be-in-a-rush-to-be-a-specialist

http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2011/10/what-exactly-is-a-product-manager/http://jessicaivins.net/blog/20130311-What-I-Learned-From-Teaching-UX-Part-1.html

UX In the Middle? Product in the Middle?

Product Managers are Taking my Job: Confessions of a UX Designer

http://unbreakablepo.com/page/2/

A Process for Empathetic Product Design

“The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people.”https://hbr.org/2015/04/a-process-for-empathetic-product-design

UX Designers make great

product owners!

Design is a cost.

To leverage design successfully in tech, don’t spray design on at the end.

B E G I N N I N G M I D D L E E N D

D E S I G N AT T H E V E R Y E N D( o r “ C O S M E T I C S U R G E R Y ” )

D E S I G N A S “ B A K E D - I N ”

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$ $ $ $

DES I GN

Start with design, rather than just end with it. an investment.

Source: @kpcb @johnmaeda @wsj #DesignInTechhttp://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/02/21/john-maeda-three-principles-for-using-design-successfully/

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http://poetpainter.com/

Functional (Useful)

Reliable

Usable

Convenient

Pleasurable

Meaning

Experience Driven

Technology Driven

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/design-can-drive-exceptional-returns-for-shareholders/

https://twitter.com/DesignUXUI/statuses/563738777596608513

“At Nike, a large and well-resourced design function reports directly to CEO, Mark Parker, who early in his

tenure was a designer himself.”

“Using human-centered design methods, inspiration for the company’s signature products is drawn directly from its cadre of famous and not-so-

famous practicing athletes, with whom the designers directly interact to devise authentic

performance innovations and style updates.”

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/design-can-drive-exceptional-returns-for-shareholders/

UX Designers make great

product owners!

Doesn’t Really Matter We’re all

here to kick ass…

https://twitter.com/jeremyjohnson/status/642353184313225217

A product can’t be successful without business, design, and technology all moving in the right direction via/ @jeremyjohnson #bigd15

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Outcomes > PlansTrend #1

https://medium.com/managing-digital-products/so-you-want-to-manage-a-product-c664ba7e5138

Marty Cagan

http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2015/09/video-the-root-causes-of-product-failure-by-marty-cagan/

Roadmaps

Just got our roadmap from the c-team!

I’m super excited about making sure all these features get put into my product!

#1

Typical Roadmap

features…

features…

features…

http://www.slideshare.net/jysimon/product-tankparis-jysimon16may2013

METRICS

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-10/how-ihops-new-menu-design-gets-customers-to-spend-more

Sign-up Abandonment

Getting First Task

Repeat Usage

Duration in App

Incentives Engagement

Gathering Additional Data

•Incentivized to deliver a feature (not the outcome) •No ownership in solving the problem (feature has been

decided) •No way to really test and learn

With Roadmaps…

We need to reduce the onboarding time for our product.

I’m super excited about running some experiments to achieve this goal!

#2

•Judged on the outcome •Owns the solution •Has the ability to experiment to the right solution

With Scorecards…

“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”

- Jeff Bezos

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html

Facebook's mission“connect the world”

“You’re not managing a product. You’re managing the problem it solves.”“Your job is to deeply understand the problem that your product aims to solve then chase the moving goal of solving every nuance of that problem.”

So you want to manage a product?

https://medium.com/managing-digital-products/so-you-want-to-manage-a-product-c664ba7e5138

“fail fast” is actually better framed as “experiment fast.” The most effective innovators succeed through experimentation.

http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/fail-fast-fail-often-an-interview-with-victor-lombardi/

- Victor Lombardi

http://www.slideshare.net/jeremy/

I’m super excited about running some experiments to achieve this goal!

Passion

MetricsTest & Learn

A Deep Understanding of the Customers is key.

Trend #2

http://www.slideshare.net/jeremy/

Are you doing research?

Are you a customer centric organization?

“I read a user manual once”

“I’ve watched some videos”

“I’ve sat with actual users”

“I read the Marketing Research”

“I once had that job” “I’ve had users in the lab”

Revealing RealityObserve to understand

We observe your users in their “habitats,” whether that’s an ohome, or a shopping mall. We have a proven methodology that uncovers what drives your users, so we can create innovation that fits their lives.

Stakeholder Interviews Contextual InquiriesData Analysis

Insights & Opportunities

Focused InnovationBring the solution into focus

We put insights into action, developing concepts for innovation based on what we understand about your audience. We create a grounded vision for the product and design principles to guide it through the process of being designed and built.

GenerateNew Concepts

Validate Concepts with Users

User-ValidatedConcept

Building & EvolvingDesign & develop user-centered software

Our cross-functional team of designers and developers works together to iteratively design, build, test, and validate features that scale and evolve to meet tomorrow's challenges.

User Stories

Design

Development Testing

IterativeReleases

Analytics &Digital Marketing

Launch

Opportunities Matrix Personas Scenario Design

Journey Maps Contextual Inquiries KANO Study

A/B Testing Concept Validation Prototyping

Matrix

Concept

UX has moved from a practice of creating screens, to creating a shared understanding of your customer’s behavior via/ @jeremyjohnson #bigd15

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Do you think of UX as…

Tools

Paint

Strategy

Process

Photoshop Sketch HTML

Looks Good! Make it blue. On Brand!

What should we build? What do our customers need? Where can we be effective?

What is your hypothesis? What methods do we use?

How are we synthesizing the data?

PatternsButtons!

Interactions flows

Do you think of UX as…

Tools

Paint

Strategy

Process

Photoshop Sketch HTML

Looks Good! Make it blue. On Brand!

What should we build? What do our customers need? Where can we be effective?

What is your hypothesis? What methods do we use?

How are we synthesizing the data?

PatternsButtons!

Interactions flows

Do you think of UX as…

Design Genius Creates Success? The Process of Understanding Customer Needs Creates Success?

vs.

“QUOTES”

“If you look at your Product Designer as someone that makes your solution look presentable, look

again. She is there to help you identify, investigate, and validate the problem, and ultimately craft,

design, test and ship the solution.”https://medium.com/@ericeriksson/what-is-product-design-9709572cb3ff

“User research means spending time with the users of our products and services to understand who they are, what they’re doing, how they live their lives, and create a picture of these people who will be

using the things that we’re trying to design and develop so we can bring that into our teams and make sure that we’re designing/developing the

right things for people”https://gdsengagement.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/03/periscope-about-user-research-for-gov-uk/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gdsteam/20954964200/in/photostream/

https://userresearch.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/18/so-youre-going-to-be-a-user-researcher-top-tips-to-get-you-going/

“Probably the most important thing to remember is that it’s not your job to be the expert on users. Rather, it’s your job to know the techniques that will allow your

entire team to become expert in what users need…”

“The company, for example, did a study of 8,292 people in eight cities, examining morning routines.”

“With this data in hand, Ikea came up with a freestanding mirror that has a rack on the back for hanging clothes and

jewelry. The Knapper…”

“Even surveying 8,292 people doesn’t always get you the right answer. The problem is that people lie. Ydholm puts it more delicately. “Sometimes we are not aware about how we

behave,” he says, “and therefore we can say things that maybe are not the reality. Or it could be that we consciously or

unconsciously express something because we want to stand out as a better person. That’s very human to do it like that.””

http://fortune.com/ikea-world-domination/

“The single most important attribute of any Product Manager worthy of the title is a fanatical devotion to the customer (and no, we’re not talking about Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition).  The customer, and more specifically the end-user, should be the North Star for whatever a Product Manager does, says, plans, or thinks about…

…and to know the customer, you have to engage with them on a regular basis.”

http://www.cleverpm.com/2015/09/09/what-makes-a-good-product-manager/

www.cleverpm.com

“However, the more we share our work in progress, using a variety of testing methods at every stage of design, the more input we can get from the people the design is for. Multiple research methods ensure that we receive diverse feedback; and more diverse feedback helps our products better meet our users’ needs.”http://alistapart.com/article/sharing-our-work-testing-feedback-in-design

Fast Path to a Great UX: Increased Exposure Hours

“It's the closest thing we've found to a silver bullet…”

“The solution? Exposure hours. The number of hours each team member is exposed directly to real users

interacting with the team's designs or the team's competitor's designs. There is a direct correlation

between this exposure and the improvements we see in the designs that team produces.”

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fast-path-great-ux-increased-exposure-hours-jared-spool

https://www.usertesting.com/blog/2015/09/02/empathy/

“It starts with the cardinal rule of UX: you are not your user. UX is about how someone else feels about your product or brand. No matter how much you hope they’ll feel a certain way,

how they actually feel is what matters.

And while that’s easy to say, it takes some effort to do.”

https://twitter.com/lukew/status/640231309277720576

http://www.fastcompany.com/3010999/innovation-agents/why-pinterest-makes-house-calls

“..would-be entrepreneurs, designers, and coders should all get out of the office and into the field

more often. "It’s the Achilles’ heel of the tech industry," he says of the armchair tendency. "It’s easy to think you can sit at your computer and come up

with the next big thing."

User experience cannot exist without users. Creating user interfaces involves intricate and complex decisions. User research is a tool that can help you achieve your goals.

Even the most well thought out designs are assumptions until they are tested by real users. Different types of research can answer different types of questions. Know the tools and apply them accordingly. Leaving the user out is not an option.

UX - U = X

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-without-user-research/

http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2014/11/leisa-reichelt-changing-organisations-to-improve-products/

“…highlights the importance of reducing the distance between the people designing the product and making decisions about them and the people who use them, through increased research and team participation in that research.”

DATA

Qualitative Quantitative

The Case for Talking to Users in the Age of Big Data

“Observing users in person provides you with data that surveys and behavioral data simply can’t, just as

surveys and behavioral metrics provide you with data and reliability that qualitative work can’t. You need both

— and you need to do both well”

https://medium.com/@mgallivan/the-case-for-talking-to-users-in-the-age-of-big-data-bca4159e9620

“As I watched Pedroia take infield practice, grabbing throws from Kevin Youkilis, the team’s hulking third baseman, and relaying them to his new first baseman Casey Kotchman, it was clear that there

was something different about him. Pedroia’s actions were precise, whereas Youkilis botched a few plays and Kotchman’s

attention seemed to wander. But mostly there was attitude: Pedroia whipped the ball around the infield, looking annoyed

whenever he perceived a lack of concentration from his teammates.”

Creating a steady stream of data.

Qualitative Quantitative

Qualitative Quantitative

Analytics

A/B Testing

Clickstream

404 Testing

Surveys “Voice of Customer”

NPS

Experian

Contextual Inquiries

Personas

Journey Maps

Workflow Diagrams

Affinity Diagramming

Validation Testing

Usability Testing

Qualitative Quantitative

Analytics

A/B Testing

Clickstream

404 Testing

Surveys “Voice of Customer”

NPS

Experian

Contextual Inquiries

Personas

Journey Maps

Workflow Diagrams

Affinity Diagramming

Validation Testing

Usability Testing

Quantitative

Analytics

A/B Testing

Clickstream

404 Testing

Surveys “Voice of Customer”

NPS

Experian

Bad stories? Where?

“I met with people that would potentially use my product and it caused my company to go out of business"

Building (developing)for Experiments

Trend #3

After the TV

Source: @kpcb @johnmaeda @heif #DesignInTechhttp://kpcb.com/design

Before the TV After the PC and Laptop

In the age of Mobile ...

Tech is no longer for Tech-ies, because Mobile is for Everybody (Right) Now

The smartphone revolution brought design’s value into the foreground. We want to do in our palm, while walking, what we used to do on a big screen while sitting down at a desk. The interaction design challenges presented by that shift are huge.

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Source: @kpcb @johnmaeda #DesignInTechText

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8AM 4PMonce in

the morningonce in

the evening

User Experience matters so much, because we are Experiencing so much.

A pain point can become a “pain plane” on mobile. That’s a lot of ouch.

150 unlocks = checking your phone every 5.6 minutes

one interaction, one “ouch” just two ouch points

The mobile paradigm should be thought of as “the always with you and in your face” paradigm. For that reason, a bad design will not just hurt once, but the hundreds of times you might use the bad design in a single day. That’s a lot of unnecessary “ouches.”

http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends

Context

Feelings

Insights

Innovations

Understanding

Stories

“I can launch this app in three

months”

“This solution will launch in 12 months”

http://barryoreilly.com/2013/10/21/how-to-implement-hypothesis-driven-development/

Experimentation is the foundation of the scientific method, which is a systematic means of exploring the world around us. Although some experiments take place in laboratories, it is possible to perform an experiment anywhere, at any time, even in software development.

Practicing Hypothesis-Driven Development[1] is thinking about the development of new ideas, products and services – even organizational change – as a series of experiments to determine whether an expected outcome will be achieved. The process is iterated upon until a desirable outcome is obtained or the idea is determined to be not viable.

http://barryoreilly.com/2013/10/21/how-to-implement-hypothesis-driven-development/

Lean = Experiments

Developers are the masters of the now…

https://vimeo.com/133377447

“…at Netflix, they ported Webkit to the PS3 just to be able to test, release, build measure learn; they were able to release 4 different PS3 experiences on the

same day to test”

http://giffconstable.com/2013/06/bill-scotts-paypal-qcon-talk-putting-a-brain-on-agile/

Iterative testing…Mountain Testing…

“…in 2011, a copy change took 6 weeks to

get on site”

http://giffconstable.com/2013/06/bill-scotts-paypal-qcon-talk-putting-a-brain-on-agile/

“Engineer for Experimentation”

What needs to be fixed?

What needs to be fixed?

You.

Passion.

Top Trends in Product Design per @jeremyjohnson: Outcomes, Understanding Customers, and Building for Experiments #bigd15

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