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Are you designing the right product? Michele Ide-Smith | @micheleidesmith UXPA, London, 16 October 2014

Are you designing the right product?

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A presentation I gave at the UK UXPA (@ukuxpa) #LeanUX event in October 2014 in London. This talk was a variation of my Rapid Product Design talk. I've added a few reflections on my experiences of trying to implement Lean UX principles in a new organisation. I took inspiration from Bill Scott's Lean UX Anti-Patterns to explain some of the problems we encountered. The other speakers were: Adrian Howard (@adrianh) from Quietstars who spoke about Lean Persona: http://www.slideshare.net/adrianh/lean-persona Andrew Godfrey (@tweet_godfrey) from Foolproof who spoke about adapting a Lean UX process and using Lean UX principles in an agency environment, with clients.

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Are you designing the right product?!Michele Ide-Smith | @micheleidesmith!UXPA, London, 16 October 2014

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About me

• UX Designer and Manager!

• Co-organiser #SDinGov, #UXCam,

#UXScotland, #camusability!

• *Love* working in Agile and Lean teams!

• Agile since 2008

@micheleidesmith

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Red Gate makes tooling for .NET, SQL and Oracle @micheleidesmith

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agilemanifesto.org @micheleidesmith

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Observing our customers working in context was tricky @micheleidesmith

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“By the time the product is ! “Marketing that itself !ready, it will already have! improves peoples lives.”!established customers.”! ! Bob Gilbreath!Eric Ries @micheleidesmith

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“We wanted to make sure we were getting customer feedback as we worked so that we were never working on anything that wasn’t valued by the customer.”!Nordstrom Innovation Lab @micheleidesmith

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“if you’ve struggled to figure out how UX design can work in an Agile environment, Lean UX can help.” Jeff Gothelf, author of Lean UX

Principles we followed:!!• Continuous discovery!• Shared understanding!• GOOB (Get Out Of the Building)!• Externalising your work

@micheleidesmith

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@micheleidesmith

What makes you visit an exhibition stand at a conference? @micheleidesmith

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Hypothesis: Oracle Developers & DBAs need a better way to source control their database schemas !>70% interest – develop a tool a.s.a.p.!

@micheleidesmith

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9 (mini) sprints, 3 days, 1 prototype@micheleidesmith

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Making our processes transparent@micheleidesmith

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25 feedback sessions with users@micheleidesmith

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Easy to get feedback and quick to change

Paper prototyping

Rapid prototyping with paper@micheleidesmith

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Feedback went directly into the HTML/CSS prototype, using Twitter Bootstrap @micheleidesmith

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Helped build personas and a talking point!People returned to see the feedback throughout the conference @micheleidesmith

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The Empathy Map helped us understand customer needs @micheleidesmith

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We fixed pain points and learned about customer needs continuously @micheleidesmith

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Sketching out processes and environments identified real-world scenarios and pain points

@micheleidesmith

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It’s was all about communication…@micheleidesmith

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…and collaboration@micheleidesmith

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Surveys to test hypotheses @micheleidesmith

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Releasing functionality early and getting feedback @micheleidesmith

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@micheleidesmith

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Testing the prototype

“Source Control for Oracle is a huge time saver… It doesn't remove the need to version control, but it takes the tedious steps out of the picture. I am blown away! “!Lewis Cunningham, Oracle ACE Director @micheleidesmith

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We worked collaboratively, as a ‘balanced’ team. @micheleidesmith

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We made great things happen!@micheleidesmith

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October 2013 - I joined the University of Cambridge and Lean UX principles were introduced. @micheleidesmith

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The team collaborated on user research and design @micheleidesmith

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But I noticed a few things weren’t going so well…

@micheleidesmith

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Hat tip to @billwscott

Beware Lean UX anti-patterns!

@micheleidesmith

w w w. s l i d e s h a r e . n e t / b i l l w s c o t t /antipatterns-that-stifle-lean-ux-teams

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Too many cooks. Keep the team small to ensure collaboration and team focus. @micheleidesmith

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Tribalism. Boundaries between separate functions start to creep back into the team. @micheleidesmith

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Going dark. Sometimes you need to work alone. But not at the expense of team collaboration. @micheleidesmith

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Questions?

Michele Ide-Smith!Design Team Manager!University of Cambridge!! @micheleidesmith

Thank you!

@micheleidesmith

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Flickr User Image Credits !!Sarah & Mike: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahandmikeprobably/4266668689/ !Kevin.Cochran: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevincochran/4276052636!Wonderlane: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/2907868429!Prayitno: http://www.flickr.com/photos/34128007@N04/5279860498!Paigggeyy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paigggeyy/5533236567!Lolly man: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4424552903!Lolly man: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyman/4424553767!Notix: https://www.flickr.com/photos/notix/383037676!Kaptain Kobold: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/5181464194!Nur Hussein https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhussein/3863456505!Dave Ware: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brickwares/3899001922!mac_filko: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mac_filko/5471039165!Chris: https://www.flickr.com/photos/oblongpictures/5250948891!

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