Changing successfully: Adapting your interface over time

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1. Slide 1: Charles Darwin Flickr user: cpurrin1 Changing successfully Adapting your interface over time Daniel Burka – Digg Creative Director – Pownce Co-founder – Silverorange Co-founder
2. Slide 2: Credit: Martin_Heigan Your design sucks Trust me, you can do better
3. Slide 3: Credit: Mark Trammell aka chasingfun Are you in or out? contract work vs in-house design
4. Slide 4: Credit: Flickr user ‘notsogoodphotography’ Handling feedback What do people want and why do they want it?
5. Slide 5: Desire paths Don’t try to predict everything Credit: Phil Gyford
6. Slide 7: Adapt to Scale It’s a great problem to have
7. Slide 11: Subtraction is iteration too Try to remove as much as you add Credit: Rev Dan Catt
8. Slide 14: Credit: kimballhoman + (flickr) Realign, don’t redesign Cameron Moll is clever
9. Slide 16: “Every time I hear a designer say the word innovation I reach for my revolver.... so I can shoot them in the face” Stuart Butterfield, Flickr March, 2008
10. Slide 17: Adapt to survive If iterative design isn’t instinctual, be convincing
11. Slide 18: A case study Digg comments
12. Slide 19: Step 1 Get it out there
13. Slide 20: Step 2 Add sophistication
14. Slide 22: by dburka 20 minutes ago Of course, what McCain is trying to avoid anyone noticing is that the problem isn't regulators failing to do their job; it's that that man he tapped to write his economic policy - Phil Gramm - removed oversight of the instruments that are laying waste to the finance sector from the regulators' job descriptions. Reply to this comment by marktrammell 16 minutes ago We all know McCain is incompetent when it comes to the economy, and that Phil Gramm sold out the finance sector. You would think they would have brought in someone with substance when Phil hit the road. 5 Replies to this comment by dburka 14 minutes ago We all know McCain is incompetent when it comes to the economy, and that Phil Gramm sold out the finance sector. You would think they would have brought in someone with substance when Phil hit the road. Step 3 5 Replies to this comment by kurtwilms 12 minutes ago Start revising We all know McCain is incompetent when it comes to the economy, and that Phil Gramm sold out the finance sector. You would think they would have brought in someone with substance when Phil hit the road. Reply to this comment by kevinrose 10 minutes ago
15. Slide 23: Set goals Add multiple levels of nesting Reduce complexity of nesting Discourage top-posting Increase participation Improve quality of discussions Address scaling issues Make things feel simpler & improve interactions
16. Slide 24: by dburka 20 minutes ago Of course, what McCain is trying to avoid anyone noticing is that the problem isn't regulators failing to do their job; it's that that man he tapped to write his economic policy - Phil Gramm - removed oversight of the instruments that are laying waste to the finance sector from the regulators' job descriptions. Reply to this comment by marktrammell 16 minutes ago We all know McCain is incompetent when it comes to the economy, and that Phil Gramm sold out the finance sector. You would think they would have brought in someone with substance when Phil hit the road. 5 Replies to this comment by dburka 14 minutes ago We all know McCain is incompetent when it comes to the economy, and that Phil Gramm sold out the finance sector. You would think they would have brought in someone with substance when Phil hit the road. 5 Replies to this comment by kurtwilms 12 minutes ago We all know McCain is incompetent when it comes to the economy, and that Phil Gramm sold out the finance sector. You would think they would have brought in someone with substance when Phil hit the road. Reply to this comment by kevinrose 10 minutes ago
17. Slide 27: Measure success Add multiple levels of nesting Reduce complexity of nesting Discourage top-posting Increase participation Improve quality of discussions Address scaling issues Make things feel simpler & improve interactions
18. Slide 28: Credit: Flickr user xjrlokix One long year... ( I’m sorry )
19. Slide 29: Then we got it right Well... sort of
20. Slide 30: Gather feedback Explicit and implicit
21. Slide 31: Set new goals (Idea is to avoid feature creep and gauge success) Make things feel simpler & improve interactions Improve performance Add most requested functionality
22. Slide 32: Create some comps Somewhere to start discussion
23. Slide 33: User test #1 Focus group novices and experts
24. Slide 34: Ask for more feedback Really? Yes.
25. Slide 35: Create refined comps In this case html/css/js comps
26. Slide 36: Implement Work closely with the development team
27. Slide 37: User test #2 Perform task analysis
28. Slide 38: Things we didn’t do Set a public timeline Try to get it perfect Include everything people wanted
29. Slide 39: Launch it! Start gathering feedback again...
30. Slide 40: Summing up... Feedback, feedback, and more feedback Follow how people actually use your system Subtraction is iteration too Measurable goals are crucial Avoid concrete timelines and avoid bloat Leave time to iterate, in fact plan for it Credit: Flickr user ‘ucumari’
31. Slide 41: Homework Stewart Brand - How Buildings Learn
32. Slide 42: Thanks! Questions? Slides will be on Slideshare slideshare.net/dburka/slideshows