MCC Technology Class (April 2012)
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User Experience Professionals The Emerging Value Proposition
Presented to Manchester Community College - Technology SeminarApril, 2012
Michael Rawlins, User Experience Strategist
About me...Michael RawlinseBusiness Product Manager at Cigna
•Certified Usability Analyst since 2003•Certified User Experience Analyst (late 2012)•Early adopter of Social Networking•Instructor of:
•Usability Testing Methods •Interaction Design Techniques•Persuasive Design Techniques (PET)•Social Networking Strategy
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Why compelling?
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Big Hardware Smaller Hardware Software People!
User Experience...
60’s - mid 70’s mid-70’s - 80’s 90’s Now
Shifting Technology Focus...
What is Usability?
Navigation
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Decision Making
More definitions...Effectiveness - can users achieve their goals
Ease of learning - how fast do they learn the interface or system construct
Efficiency of use - how fast users complete tasks
Memorability - short & long term memory leveraged
Error prevention - is there forgiveness
User satisfaction - do users like the application
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User Experience...
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What’s a usability test?
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Where’s the USB port?
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Cool, but not intuitively obvious...
People respond to software & hardware that is easy to use.
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Mental models?“Things should work the way we think they should work...
... if you break the user’s mental model - they respond negatively.”
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UX Tools: Persuasion...Life = making choices
More information = more difficult to choose
More choices available = more difficult to choose
People have developed semi-automatic reactions to help make choices.
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Prefrontal Cortex @ logic (no!)
Controls reasoning and logic
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Amygdala @ emotions (yes!)
Semi-automatic reactions
Influencing people...Reciprocation
Commitment & Consistency
Social Proof
Authority
Liking
Scarcity14
Leveraging persuasion...Use reciprocity to give things away for free and people will return
People are inclined to return favors you have done for them
Chances are you’re already giving something away for free
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“Freemium” strategies...Free newsletters and RSS Feeds
Free Tips
Free webinars/podcast
Free trial software...
Goal: Ask users/visitors to promote your content in return for what they get.
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The sub-conscious mind... When something is scarce, people automatically perceive it more valuable
Scarcity in time is extremely effective (example: limited access to content, previews, etc.)
Scarcity in amount is equally effective in gaining users/visitors attention
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Designing for trust... Authority figures can trigger behaviors... Establishing authority makes it easy for people to choose you, your product or service offering over the next distraction
Social Proof “People are like sheep!”. The more information we put in front of our users/visitors, the more they rely on other people’s choices to make their own
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Changing behaviors...Commitment/Consistency - the moment people decide on something, they start convincing themselves it’s the right choice
Goal: Leveraging all of these elements as part of a Persuasive Architecture enables smart companies to rationalize social media initiatives.
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Create, Test, Adjust...
20http://www.patterntap.com
http://www.verifyapp.com
http://patternry.com/patterns/
Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw
Applied Persuasion...
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Suggested Reading...
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Getting Started in UX...
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http://www.ctupa.org
http://www.upassoc.org/
http://uxmag.com/articles/why-persuasive-design-should-be-your-next-skill-set
http://uxmag.com/articles/user-experience-for-developers
http://aneventapart.com/alasurvey2010/01.html
Thank you!
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