Redesigning how we work - UX Alive 2016
- 5. Spent days putting this awesome design together
and just got client feedback. Looks like I'll be
spending the next few days ruining it!!
Gah. Working w/ a client who doesn't get this.
Making my head explode. They don't care about UX.
When you push forward a client design request
that you both know is a terrible idea.
Image credit: Talkback Thames and Channel 4 TV (The IT Crowd, 2006) @duckymatt
- 6. Image credit: Capella International, Eric’s Boy, KC Medien, Moving Pictures and New Line Cinema (Austin Powers, 1997) @duckymatt
- 11. CAN YOU MAKE IT SO
PLAYS EVERY TIME SOMEONE
RECEIVES AN EMAIL FROM US?
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- 12. A MONSTER OF OUR
OWN MAKING
Image credit: Universal Pictures (Frankenstein, 1931) @duckymatt
- 13. How much of the shit
we complain about all
day has our fingerprints
all over it?
MIKE MONTEIRO
Photo credit: Amber Gregory: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fontshop/7091584773/
Recommended read: http://www.abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job
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- 17. The design process is
weird and complicated
because it involves
people…
…who are weird and
complicated.
MARK BOULTON
Photo credit: Anton Peck: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26545827@N00/5691825327/
Source: http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/post/where-theres-muck-theres-brass-mark-boulton-at-smashing-conference/
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- 18. CLIENT WORK IS ALL
ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
Image credit: Touchstone Pictures (Turner & Hooch, 1989) @duckymatt
- 22. PUT THE SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT
THEY HIRED YOU TO SOLVE A PROBLEM THAT THEY CANNOT ALONE
Image credit:Cinema Group Ventures and Paramount Pictures (Trading Places, 1983) @duckymatt
- 23. CLIENTS WANT TO BE GUIDED
CLEARLY DEFINE THE ROLES OF
THE CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
Image credit:Paramount Pictures (Forrest Gump, 1994) @duckymatt
- 25. ONE ON ONE
INTERVIEWS
Image credit:Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Baltimore Pictures, Spring Creek Productions, Face Productions, Tribeca Productions (Analyse This, 1999)
http://goodkickoffmeetings.com/2010/04/stakeholder-frontloading/
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- 26. The turning point in
many interviews is when
the interviewee gets up
and closes the office door
and lowers their voice.
PAUL BOAG
Photo credit: Andreas Øverland: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreasoverland/4954194732/
Source: http://boagworld.com/business-strategy/how-to-improve-your-site-using-stakeholder-interviews/
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- 31. GIVE UPDATES
EVEN IF THERE ISN’T
MUCH TO REPORT
Image credit: Columbia Pictures Corporation and Hawk Films (Dr Strangelove, 1964) @duckymatt
- 32. TRANSPARENCY
FOSTER TRUST BY INVOLVING YOUR CLIENT
THROUGHOUT THE DESIGN PROCESS
Image credit:Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, U-Drive Productions (Back to the Future, 1985)
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- 33. TAKE THE CLIENT ON THE
JOURNEY WITH YOUImage credit: MGM and Loew’s (The Wizard of Oz, 1939) @duckymatt
- 37. There is a direct
correlation between
this exposure and the
improvements we see
in the designs that
team produces.
JARED SPOOL
Photo credit: Jeffrey Zeldman: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeldman/8614173005/
http://www.uie.com/articles/user_exposure_hours/
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- 39. THE NO PERSON
Image credit: Carolco Pictures, Pacific Western, Lightstorm Entertainment, Canal+ & T2 Productions (Terimator 2: Judgment Day, 1991)
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- 41. Your ego is a
bad designer
CHRISTOPHER BUTLER
http://www.newfangled.com/your_ego_is_a_bad_designer
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- 43. STAY POSITIVE MEANS YOU CAN SAY NO
WITHOUT BEING THE ‘NO’
PERSON
Image credit: Walt Disney and Pixar Studios. (Up, 2009) @duckymatt
- 44. People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did.
But people will never forget how
you made them feel.
MAYA ANGELOU
Photo credit: York College ISLGP http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maya_Angelou_visits_YCP!_2413.jpg
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- 45. Not only were we satisfied with the quality of work carried
out for us, but we also really enjoyed working closely with
the team in both a professional and personal capacity.
It was very dynamic and creative. I always felt they
really cared about the project.
Great team to work with, everyone was
enthusiastic from the first day to the final delivery.
Image credit: Broadway Video, Little Stranger, NBC Universal Television (30 Rock, 2006) @duckymatt
- 48. When you're struggling
to write a sensitive email,
stop trying. Pick up the
phone and call instead.
CARL SMITH
http://devianthippie.com/
Source: https://twitter.com/carlsmith/status/430505161765974017
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- 49. PRESENT DESIGNS,
DON’T JUST EMAIL THEM
Image credit: Dreamworks SKG, Universal Pictures, Scott Free Productions, Mill Film, C&L, Dawliz and Red Wagon Entertainment (Gladiator, 2000) @duckymatt
- 51. YOUR DESIGNS WON’T
SELL THEMSELVES
Image credit: Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television (The Simpsons, 1997)
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- 52. “WHAT DO YOU THINK?”
IS THE ENEMY OF
CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK
Image credit: Warner Bros, Hawk Films, Peregrine and The Producer Circle Company (The Shining, 1980)
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- 53. The client didn’t hire
you to make something
they liked, and
something they like may
not be the thing that
leads to their success.
MIKE MONTEIRO
Photo credit: Amber Gregory: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fontshop/7091584773/
Source: https://medium.com/@monteiro/13-ways-designers-screw-up-client-presentations-51aaee11e28c
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- 54. BE CONSISTENT
IN YOUR USE
OF LANGUAGE
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- 55. SOME OF THE WAYS
WE FOSTER BETTER
COMMUNICATION
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- 60. Image credit: The Ladd Company, Shaw Brothers and Warner Bros. (Blade Runner, 1982) @duckymatt
TESTING, DUH
- 61. SO NEXT TIME
Image credit: Michael White Productions, National Film Trustee Company and Monty Python Pictures (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975) @duckymatt
- 63. DID YOU SET AND MANAGE
THEIR EXPECTATIONS?
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- 67. No matter how much you try,
you can’t stop people from
sticking beans up their nose.
JARED SPOOL
Source: http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/07/08/beans-and-noses/
Photo credit: Brandon Dilbeck (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JellyBellyBeans.jpg) @duckymatt
- 71. Image credit: Am Psycho Productions, Edward R Pressman Film, Lions Gate Films, Muse Productions, PPS Films, Quadra Entertainment, Universal Pictures (American Psycho, 2000)
THAT WE
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- 72. Image credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Gordon Company, & Silver Pictures (Die Hard, 1988)
OUR CLIENTS
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- 74. Image credit: Warner Bros, Village Roadshow Pictures, A&E Television Network, Bazmark Films, Red Wagon Entertainment and Spectrum Films (The Great Gatsby, 2013)
WILL
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