Post on 16-Apr-2017
Hold the Sprinkles! Cupcakes, Layers, and
Agile UX design
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Carissa DemetrisPrincipal User Experience Designer, ProQuest, LLC
Helene GidleyOwner, HSG Consulting
What’s the Problem?
• Simply put, there isn’t enough time (or budget) to do everything that we want to do, both for design and development.
• Agile design practices can help meet basic requirements, and provide opportunity to iterate design.
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What’s the Solution?
• Summarize and Organize• Work Out the Workflow• Design in Layers
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Summarize and Organize
• What’s the Use Case?– Summarize the user goal.
What is the user trying to accomplish?
• What are the Functional Chunks?– Break down the requirements
into functional chunks that feed into the user workflow.
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Summarize and Organize Example
• User goal“As a system administrator, I want to be able to view and manage users.”
• Functional Chunks• Admin area• Assign Admins• Create/Edit/Delete Users• Create/Edit/Delete Settings• Apply Settings to Users
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What’s the Solution?
• Summarize and Organize• Work Out the Workflow• Design in Layers
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Work Out the Workflow
• Break down and arrange functional chunks to establish workflow– What should come first? What happens next? Then
what?– Where is the user most likely to lose the ‘happy path’
(error conditions)?
Happy path
Error flow
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Workflow Example
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Primary workflow
Secondary workflow
Error workflow
Story Mapping Example
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“As a system administrator, I want to be able to view and manage users.”
FacebookAuth.
Username/password
Manually
Permissionsmodel
One by one
Bulk upload
7th Inning Stretch
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What’s the Solution?
• Summarize and Organize• Work Out the Workflow• Design in Layers
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Mary’s Cupcake
• Birthday party with 12 guests• Need to make 1 cupcake per guest• Have 1 hour to make all of the
cupcakes• Mary is the first person on the
guest list
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Design in Layers
Uh-oh, not the best idea
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Design in Layers
Yes, that’s more like it!
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Design in Layers
“Do the simplest thing that could possibly work.”
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Layering Example (Access Admin Area)
Requirements (Cake)
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Layering Example (Access Admin Area)
Enhancements (Frosting)
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Layering Example (Access Admin Area)Embellishments (Sprinkles)
?
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Layering Example (Assign Admin)
Requirements (Cake)
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Enhancements (Frosting)
?
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Layering Example (Assign Admin)
Layering Example (Assign Admin)
Enhancements (Frosting)
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Layering Example (Create Users)
Requirements (Cake)
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Layering Example (Create Users)
Enhancements (Frosting)
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Embellishments (Sprinkles)
?
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Layering Example (Create Users)
Layering Example (Create/Assign Settings)
Requirements (Cake)
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Layering Example (Create/Assign Settings)
Enhancements (Frosting)
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Cake
Frosting
Embrace the Cake
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Frost with Care
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Hold the Sprinkles!
Carissa Demetris, Principal User Experience Designer ProQuest , LLCcarissa.demetris@proquest.com
Thank you!
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Helene Gidley, OwnerHSG Consulting, LLChelene.gidley@hsgconsultingllc.com