You Can UX Too: Avoiding the Programmer's User Interface @ NEPHP 2013
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1) The document discusses how programmers can improve user experience (UX) when designing interfaces, even without being UX professionals. It provides practical tips like using user-centered design principles to prioritize users' needs. 2) The author recommends techniques like pattern matching interfaces usefully, protecting users, and not expecting users to read extensive instructions. Programmers are advised to observe how users interact with their software. 3) When working with dedicated UX professionals, the document says programmers should think about how implementations impact the user experience, provide constructive feedback, and defer to UX experts' judgments about interface designs.
You Can UX Too: Avoiding the Programmer's User Interface @ NEPHP 2013
- 1. You Can UX Too: Avoiding the Programmer's User Interface Eryn O'Neil Northeast PHP Boston (Cambridge!), MA August 16, 2013
- 4. I'm not a UX professional.
- 5. Why me?
- 6. Because programmers need to caredeeplyabout the interfaces they write. Why me?
- 9. Today, we'll talk about: Practical ways to make your UX experience better How to work with the UX professional in your life Why you should care!
- 10. What is the programmer's interface anyway?
- 15. Why care?
- 16. The best software happens when everyone on the team feels ownership of the user interface.
- 17. How can we do better?
- 18. How can we do better? The programmer's interface happens when you try to design an interface at the same time that you're writing it.
- 19. How can we do better? UX First.
- 20. How can we do better? UX First. And third... and fifth...
- 21. How can we do better? User-Centered Design A process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of end users of a product are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. Wikipedia, User-Centered Design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-centered_design
- 22. How can we do better? User-Centered Design
- 23. There is no one true universal UX. Facebook: Universal Human Clean Consistent Useful Fast Transparent HTC One: Make it Mine Stay Close Discover the Unexpected Luke Wroblewski, Developing Design Principles, http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?854
- 24. How can we do better? Don't Reinvent the Wheel.
- 25. How can we do better? Pattern match.
- 29. How can we do better? Protect your users.
- 30. How can we do better? Don't expect people to read.
- 31. How can we do better? Avoid Surprising Behavior.
- 32. How can we do better? Watch people use your software.
- 33. How can we do better? Watch people use your software. ...and believe your users.
- 34. How can we work better with the UX professionals in our lives?
- 35. The developer's job is to think about how the implementation will affect the UX.
- 36. How can we work with UX pros? Yes, But.
- 37. How can we work with UX pros? Know your limits. Defer.
- 38. How can we work with UX pros? Know your limits. Defer. (Don't have UX people? Usertesting.com)
- 39. Thanks!