1. User Experience Design
a consulting skills workshop
Dr. Tiffany von Emmel
Nairobits School of Design
Nairobi, Kenya
November 7th, 2011

2. What is User Experience Design?
Designing an experience
is like choreographing
an improvisational dance.

3. Many Domains in User Experience
Credit: Nathan Shedroff, http://nathan.com

4. The Tasks of User Experience
Credit: Jesse James Garrett, 2000

5. User Research

Interviews

Groups

Personas

Scenarios

6. User Stories
What does this user want to do?
As a _____, I want to...

7. Case: The Impact Tool

8. Interaction Design

Storyboarding

Work Flows

Performative
Prototyping

9. Interface Design

Prototyping

Wireframes

10. Information Design

Card Sort

Sitemap

11. Visual Design

Visual Mockups

Graphics

12. Case: My Stream

13. What are you
discovering
about User
Experience
Design?

14. Learn more
Books

Project Guide to UX, Carolyn Chandler & Russ Unger
http://projectuxd.com/

Don't Make Me Think, Steve Krug
Sites

www.informationdesign.org - daily UX resource

www.functioningform.com - UX design process

www.nathan.com/resources/index.html

15. Learn more
Mapping the field

http://www.blissfullyaware.com/design/ia-vs-id-vs-ux/

http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/user_experience_or_ux.html
Tools

templates: http://projectuxd.com/?page_id=5

16. User Experience Folks

Nathan Shedroff http://nathan.com

Jesse James Garrett http://www.jjg.net/ia/

Peter Kaminski http://peterkaminski.com

Adina Levin http://www.alevin.com/?cat=27

Steve Krug http://www.sensible.com/

17. Swim on...
Tiffany von Emmel
http://vonemmel.com
Dreamfish is a global community of practice for people doing social good.
http://dreamfish.com
Nairobits School of Design is a youth-based organization that uses ICT
multimedia to improve the lives of less privileged youth from non-formal
settlements in East Africa.
http://nairobits.com