What is user experience?

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What is user experience?

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Every day we have good and not so good experiences using objects, products, and services

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Not so good user experiences…

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Hard plastic vacuum sealed packaging

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Doors that don’t open

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Strollers that won’t collapse

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Ecommerce websites that use too many steps through the payment process

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Products with fiddly interfaces

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All these things may give the user a negative brand experience…

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Consumers may not use the product again(let alone recommend it).

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Good user experiences…

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iphones, ipads(and other smart phones)

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Vehicle service design

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Virgin Atlantic Upper class air travel(If you’re lucky)

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The Velib(Bike hire system in Paris)

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Club Penguin

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Good user experiences leave people wanting to come back for more

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People will spread the word

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Some users will be customers for life

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Sales and visits will increase

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First impressions count

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So in a digital context…

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User experience design uses tools and techniques to satisfy the needs not just of the business

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but also the end user

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In the early days websites were designed around the technology, the visual design or what the CEO wanted

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These days designing good experiences involves…

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Research, strategy, information architecture, interaction design, user testing and measurement

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It also encompasses CRM, marketing, human factors, psychology, ergonomics, ethnography,

technology and more…

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Most importantly, it involves understandingyour customers

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This can be done through research:observing, talking, listening…

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Then applying the Experience Designpractices to your project

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User Experience is becoming more popular with businesses and organisations

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Because it helps achieve business goals

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For more information Email hello@sixeightdigital.com

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