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Understanding
Information
Architecture

  A workshop by !
 @Abby_the_IA
Understanding Information Architecture: A Workshop
Agenda for today
Answer these questions:
•    What is Information Architecture (IA)?!
•    What does “good” mean?!
•    How is IA best used and when?!
•    What IA tools can I walk out of here with today?!

Attempt these stunts:
•  Funnel development !
•  Persona segmentation !
•  Collaborative design session brief creation!
Similar to what
Architecture does for
physical structures
Information Architecture provides
actionable Blueprints of what is
being designed and built.
What is information architecture (IA)?


•  Making complex things be clear(er)!
•  Making things not just look good, but be good!
•  Consensus facilitation!
                           --!
•  NOT “just Sitemaps and Wireframes”!
•  NOT “the old name for UX”!
•  NOT “just digital”!
I Have used IA to help


•  Change the audience for Sharpie from a office supply
   consumer to teenagers looking for a self expression tool!
•  Grow a 150,000 member Facebook fan base for JELL-O
   over the weekend.!
•  Pilot a revolutionary diet for people with Type 2 diabetes!
•  Analyze and strategically prioritize digital marketing
   efforts and improvements for Herman Miller in support of
   their movement into the B to C market!
Research
Strategy
     Architecture
             Design
                          Execution




                                 basic process
                                  of making
                                    things
Research
Strategy
       Architecture
                   Design
                                Execution
Why   What   Who   When          How          Next
 ?     ?      ?     ?             ?            ?




                            Questions that Need
                                  Answers
IA can be used when
•  Conducting Research (Persona Research, User
   Interviewing, User Testing, Competitive Research,
   Contextual Inquiry)!
!
•  Formulating Strategic Insight (Stakeholder
   Interviewing, Analytics, Goal Setting, Key Performance
   Indicator Development, Heuristic Evaluation)!
!
•  Creating Structural Blueprints (Product Roadmaps,
   Site maps, Process/Flow Diagrams, Requirements,
   Experience Maps, Cross Channel Maps, Prototypes)!
Research
Strategy
       Architecture
                    Design
                                     Execution
Why   What   Who    When              How                 Next
 ?     ?      ?      ?                 ?                   ?




    Goal
   Setting
  Workshop
             Persona
             Workshop                 3 tools of the IA
                    Collaborative      trade we will
                    Design Session      learn today
Lesson 1:

   Using goal
    Setting to
establish checks
 and balances
     upfront
In this lesson
•  You will gain a basic understanding of the tools used for
   measuring and evaluating the quality of a product or
   serviceʼs user experience !
•  You will learn the importance of prioritizing what you
   measure. !
•  You will learn the importance of setting goals!
•  You will understand the difference between directional
   goals and specific goals!
•  You will be able to help your team to understand the
   goals for your user experience!
What do we use to measure?

•    User testing !
•    Satisfaction Surveys!
•    Usage Data/Analytics!
•    Social Media Statistics!
•    Sales data, even non digital equivalents!
•    Qualitative metrics (sales force or
     customer service quotas)!
What are we actually measuring?

•  The simple answer is… NOT everything.!
•  The more complicated one is … measure
   what matters.!
Awareness:
                  How do people know                     Getting at
                   about you? Or not                     what matters
                   know about you?
                                                         !
                     Acquisition:                        Attach to the Funnel:!
                    Where are you
                  bringing people to
                                                         !
                  your product from?                     •  What you have today!
                                                         •  Opportunities you
 Distraction:        Conversion:        Competition:
When they don't        Where are         When they
                                                            have!
  proceed?            places that      proceed but not
Where do they        people decide        with you?      Start thinking about
go? Add why?        to proceed with    Where do they
                     your business      go? Add why?     what you would need to
                                                         measure in order to
                                                         determine if each part
                        Action:
                     What is the 1                       of the funnel is
                    thing you want                       optimized.!
                      users to do




                       Loyalty:
                     Do they ever
                     come back?
                      (Optional)
Awareness:
Example:	
  	
                                  Social Media
                                                Word of Mouth

Small	
                                           Acquisition:
                                                Blogger Network

Community	
                                     Search Engines
                                                 Advertisement

News	
  Collec6ve	
  	
  
                                                  Social Media


                                Distraction:     Conversion:      Competition:
	
                             Advertisements
                                                 Home page
                                                 Article page
                                                                  Main Stream
                                                                   Music Sites
                                                 Twitter page
With	
  the	
  goal	
  of	
                     Facebook page     Other Music
                                                                     Blogs

providing	
  quality	
  
local	
  music	
  news	
  	
                       Action:
                                                   Read the
                                                    News
	
  
(Note:	
  I	
  made	
  this	
  up,	
  no	
  
hipsters	
  were	
  harmed	
  in	
  the	
  
                                                   Loyalty:
crea6on	
  of	
  this	
  example)	
             Sign up for the
                                                  community
                                                  (Optional)
Awareness:       How do      We
Add	
  burning	
                                  Social Media
                                                  Word of Mouth
                                                                    people      have no
                                                                    find us?!    social
ques6ons	
  and	
                Where are
                                 loyal users        Acquisition:                media!

what	
  you	
  know	
            likeliest to     Blogger Network
                                                  Search Engines
                                 come from?!       Advertisement
                                                    Social Media


                             Distraction:          Conversion:                 Competition:
                                                   Home page                   Main Stream
                            Advertisements         Article page                 Music Sites
                                                   Twitter page
                                                  Facebook page                Other Music
                                                                                  Blogs


                                 We donʼt track                      How long
                                                     Action:
                                 suggested           Read the
                                                                     should we
                                 content today!       News           expect people
                                                                     to stay?!
              We have never      Do people
              talked to users!   appreciate                          Our time on
                                 suggested                           site average is
                                 content? Do         Loyalty:
                                                                     less than a
                                                  Sign up for the
                                 they want to       community        minute!
                                 share?!            (Optional)
Finding the right measures

If you have a question about!               Examples to be looking at…!

If something is effective!                  Completion rates !

Whether something is findable!               Speed to find!

Peopleʼs Expectations!                      Bounce Rates & Time on Site!

Satisfaction!                               Interviews, Surveys, Ask Sales and CSRs !

Is enough Information provided?!            Are people clicking to further information
                                            consistently?!
Are people using the path as designed?!     Click path data!




(Courtesy	
  of	
  Richard	
  Dalton)	
  
Attach measurement plans to questions

The	
  Big	
  Ques6ons	
                Planning	
  to	
  measure	
  
Awareness: How do people find            User interviews and Surveys!
out about us?!
Acquisition: Where will our loyal       Surveys, Analytics: Traffic Sources for Repeat
users be coming from?!                  Users !
Conversion: What is the average         Analytics: Time on site compared to industry
time on site for us? What is            averages and for loyalty users vs single article
normal?!                                users!
Action: Will people interact with       Analytics: Click rates on items suggested on article
the content we suggest they             pages!
interact with after reading the entry
article?!
Loyalty: How will loyalty users         Analytics: Compare variety of points across loyalty
differ from new users?!                 users and single article users!
Other: How should sharing work?         Surveys, Interviews, Analytics: Track social sharing
What do people share?!                  behavior to establish baselines for types of events!
Exercise 1
Imagine that your team is being asked to redesign
the General Assembly experience. !
!
As a group, fill in the funnel with: !
!
q Facts – you (like many startups) wonʼt have many ;)!
q Questions youʼd like answers to!
q Existing pieces of the experience!
q Opportunities to explore!
q How you might measure things along the way!
Setting Goals: in 2 Delicious Flavors

•  Directional Goals!
•  Specific Goals!
Establishing Directional Goals

                      This




  That
What makes a Good scale?



              ²  Challenge the old with the new!




              ²  Define success differently!




              ²  Manage priority and scope!
Show departures from
     consensus
Establishing Specific Goals

Goals should be S.M.A.R.T !
!
q  Specific!
q  Measurable!
q  Achievable!
q  Relevant!
q  Time bound!
Example: Specific Goals
Our Goals for the next 6 months!
  –  Establish an average time on site with our loyalty
     users of 2+ minutes (matching industry standards for
     news sites)!
  –  Produce an average of 100+ unique social media
     impressions per month for the news organization
     brand!
  –  Increase the likelihood of loyalty users to click of
     secondary materials from 10% to 20% through better
     content tagging and human curation!
Lesson 2:

  Personas
   distill
research into
 weaponized
     bits
In this lesson
•  You will understand the value of personas in the design
   process!
•  You will be able to identify potential sources for personas !
•  You will learn how to segment target users into persona
   targets!
•  You will understand why stories are a powerful tool to
   incorporate into your personas!
•  You will learn strategies and common pitfalls when
   selecting photos to accompany your personas. !
Why personas work:
•  People like having someone to design for:
   meaning there is already a persona or two living
   in the head of every member of your team.!
•  Personas inspire teams to work towards a
   shared vision instead of many disparate ones!
Choosing Representative
           Personas:
•  Step	
  1:	
  Make	
  a	
  post	
  it	
  for	
  each	
  user	
  type	
  you	
  can	
  think	
  of	
  
•  Step	
  2:	
  Group	
  them	
  on	
  a	
  wall	
  into	
  clusters	
  by	
  how	
  they	
  might	
  
   think	
  about	
  or	
  use	
  your	
  product	
  or	
  service	
  
•  Step	
  3:	
  Pick	
  3-­‐5	
  clusters	
  of	
  people	
  that	
  seem	
  like	
  the	
  ones	
  
   most	
  important	
  to	
  whom	
  you	
  are	
  trying	
  to	
  reach	
  
•  Step	
  4:	
  Choose	
  one	
  “person”	
  from	
  each	
  of	
  those	
  clusters	
  that	
  
   you	
  feel	
  could	
  stand	
  up	
  and	
  make	
  decisions	
  for	
  that	
  whole	
  
   group	
  if	
  a	
  vote	
  were	
  to	
  occur	
  
•  Step	
  5:	
  Decide	
  what	
  you	
  know,	
  and	
  what	
  you	
  need	
  to	
  know	
  
•  Step	
  6:	
  Devise	
  a	
  plan	
  to	
  find	
  out	
  what	
  you	
  don’t	
  yet	
  know.	
  
Who to Prioritize?
                 Urgent   Not Urgent




                                       Important
 Important




                 1st      3rd




                                       Not Important
 Not Important




                 2nd      SOL
                 Urgent   Not Urgent
Quick ways to get to
      know your users:
•  Talk to potential users!
•  Talk to actual users (if you have them)!
•  Talk to competitive users (no one said you couldnʼt –
   unless they did, then donʼt)!
•  Spend time shadowing users in their real lives!
•  Watch people using equivalent or similar things to what
   you are making!
•  Use competitive things in the market!
•  Social media listening!
•  Blogs, customer reviews, forums… the internet is HUGE!
Example: theArtistsway
                                                                      Persona research done on
                    Urgent                   Not Urgent               3 segments:!
                1     Professional
                      Artists                                         •  Survey distributed on




                                                          Important
Important




                                                                         social media for 3 types of
                                         3    Students                   artists to learn differences!
                         Craft Artists
                     2                                                •  Buy-along trips to local art
                                                                         supply stores!
                                                                      •  Remote usability tests of
                                                                         current sites used for
Not Important




                                                          Important
                                                                         buying supplies online to
                                                                         discuss functionality and
                                                                         pain points!
                                                                      •  Interviews and studio
                                                                         visits were done to
                    Urgent                   Not Urgent
                                                                         discuss storage of
                                                                         supplies, how far in
                                                                         advance supplies are
                                                                         bought etc!


                                                                      !
Exercise 2:	
  
q  Individually brainstorm
                                                Urgent   Not Urgent
    the different types of
    users the GA campus




                                                                      Important
    needs to serve (and not



                                Important
    serve)!
q  Within your team, plot
    them on the urgency/
    important 4 up !
q  Decide the top 3 clusters
                                Not Important




                                                                      Important
    you would research as
    personas and the best
    ways to research them!

                                                Urgent   Not Urgent
Building each persona:
•  Step 1: Choosing a name and photo!
•  Step 2: Rough demographics, home life, work
   life, digital life!
•  Step 3: Attitudes and Product/Service/Industry
   Related Feelings !
 Common pitfalls in photo and name selection:!
  !
 •  Racially insensitive or inappropriate!
 •  Hot people!
 •  Stock photos or headshots!
 •  “Thatʼs not so-n-so”!
 •  Team or customer photos or names!
 !
Narrating each
    personas experience
•  Step 1: Put on the shoes of each persona and describe
   the world they experience today. !
•  Step 2: Write a story of what they see. What do they
   wish was better? Where would your product fit in?!


     If your product is in their story today, be brave!!
      !
     Show the under belly and admit the flaws of what
     you are offering through their eyes. What is their
     likely reaction?!
     !
How to tell the story
             effectively
•  Capture quotes you think people would say or emotions
   you anticipate they would have!
•  Try to write the personas in their words!
•  Grab screenshots and video grabs where you can to
   show the experience through their eyes!
•  As you read your story, use the visuals to support it!
•  Ask your team for confirmation that the story seems
   realistic and not over the top in either a positive or
   negative direction!
Example: theArtistsway
                                         About Janie: Professional Artist
                                                                                              Digital Life:
                                         Janie is a designer at heart and by trade. She       Janie is a Mac enthusiast for work, but a
                                         is an artist living and working in a small studio    mostly iPad user when it comes to her
                                         she shares with husband and photographer --          casual browsing and emailing. She also
                                         in the West Park Slope neighborhood of               is starting to get into social media and
                                         Brooklyn.                                            loves to post things she finds on her
                                                                                              Facebook wall for her friends to see and
                                                                                              occasionally to her agencyʼs blog.
                                         When shopping for clothing, art supplies,
                                         whatever: quality and style matter to Janie          Technology and Media Diet:
                                         more than price. She doesnʼt often shop at
                                         mass retailers and loves spending a Saturday          •    Loves to browse blogs and design
                                         browsing the local markets and boutique                    magazine sites on her iPad. Also a
                                         retailers. She considers her digital life much             iPhone 3G user, but doesn't browse
                                                                                                    the web very consistently from it.
                                         the same. And chooses to use devices and              •    Loves her Macbook Air for ease of
"I'm finally digital, now                 tools she likes to look at and use.                        travel and slick design
                                                                                               •    Bose noise canceling headphones,
I'm ready for my art                     In the last 5 years Jane's entire life has                 also essential for travel
                                                                                               •    Netflix Instant Subscriber, great for
business to be."                         migrated online, but she feels like her business           her since they donʼt have cable
                                         as an artist has been left without a place that is         anymore
    Age: 53                              meant for her. All the tools available are for        •    eBook purchaser, keeps the clutter
                                         consultants, not artists.                                  down in a NYC apartment
    Work Life: Professional Artist                                                             •    Has a personal and business
    Home Life: Married to Michael, 54.   Design Minded                                  +           Facebook accounts
                                                                                               •    Has a business twitter account which
    No children. Owner of a 2 cats                                                                  she doesnʼt touch but tells her staff
                                         Business Savvy                                 +
    Income Level: 120k household                                                                    about content to post
.                                                                                       +
                                         Digital Savvy
Lesson 3:

  Sketching
 Experiences
and managing
    scope
In this lesson
•  You will understand the basics requirements for
   preparing and hosting a collaborative sketching session.!
•  You will learn the basic outline of a process to facilitate
   collaborative sketching and a basic structure for
   synthesizing ideas that come out of a collaborative
   design session.!
•  You will synthesize ideas generated by others for use in
   future product planning!
What s the difference between
    sketching and drawing?

•  Drawing: The art or skill or making such
   pictures or diagrams!
•  Sketching: Give a brief account or general
   outline of!
Only you can prevent
     brainstorms
•  The most important thing to remember when
   running a session is that the quality of what you
   put into preparing will reflect itself in what comes
   out of the session!
•  If you go in and throw blank paper around and
   say “lets draw the new product” – you will get
   blank paper of a generic product out of it. !
Preparing a good                            brief
Just like on a secret spy mission, a good briefing
should have:!
!
•  Intelligence: from the competition (herein referred to as
   the enemy) audience, market and/or industry!
•  Dossier(s): Your personas from the last lesson!
•  State of Affairs: Where you are today (if anywhere) !
•  The Assignment: A set of experiences you want them to
   redesign during the session !
!
Framing the
          Assignment(s)
•  Pick a Persona!
•  Pick an important task (something the user
   will accomplish)!
•  Describe the personaʼs completion of the
   task (as the world is today)!
•  Draft the assignment for the session!
Example:
Current Situation: Joan is a professional artist who orders the
same supplies on a regular basis. Today she manually orders
monthly and on an as needed basis through Dickblick.com. She
manages her business through spreadsheets and a variety of
paper based methods. Much of the rest of her life is now online
and she is interested in a new way, but hasnʼt heard of such a
thing for artists like her.!
!
Your Mission: Work with your team to envision a product
experience for Joan to manage and execute her monthly art
supply purchases online. For this first task, letʼs start with Joan
hearing about this new product on a site like Facebook,
investigating it and signing up to use it for the first time.!
Exercise 3
Write a short scenario for each of your GA
personas. !
!
If time allows, we will vote on one scenario to
sketch through.!
What Happens after
          the Brief?
•    Brief (5 Min)!
•    Sketch Individually (10 min)!
•    Group Sketch (15 min)!
•    Present to Room (5 min per group)!
!
Fortune Favors the Bold

Bring in Friends: Ok so you are sitting there
saying, I am one person, no team. Thatʼs ok!
Invite some friends. It wonʼt be exactly ideal
BUT I bet you get something out of it.!
!
Bring in Users: This exercise is excellent with
an internal team. But bringing users into a room
and doing this together can be an amazing way
to unlock insight and bring new ideas to life. But
I will warn you it takes careful planning and
excellent moderation.!
!
What is Scope and Why
  Should you care?
   Scope	
  =	
  	
  
   What	
  we	
  all	
  agreed	
  to	
  do	
  
Preparing to Scope
•  Truth #1 Some of the ideas that came out
   of the session will be bad !
•  Truth #2 Someone will have to make a call!
•  Truth #3 Not all important features will have
   been captured.!
Understanding Prioritization

Brandʼs Prioritization:!             User Prioritization:!
ü  Meets Competitive/Industry or    ü  Appropriate for my life!
    Regulatory Bar!
                                     ü  Relevant to me!
ü  Meets Contractual Obligation!
ü  Availability of Resources or     ü  Within reach in price and
    Partners!                            availability!
ü  Budget to Produce!



What measurement is fair?!
!
•  High: Must have and would consider holding launch until I get it!
•  Medium: Is pretty essential but launch is priority over it!
•  Low: Nice to have but not essential!
A format for
                   prioritizing:
Feature or      Brand (H,M,L)! User (H,M,L)!       Phase            Cost/Hours to
Idea!                                              Decision!        Produce!
Insert!         Insert!          Insert!           Insert!          Insert!
                                                                    !



•  Allows for dual prioritization!
•  Allows for phase designation outside of
   prioritization!
•  Indicates cost/time per feature or idea (optional)!

    If things get messy: Get out the monopoly money. Each stakeholder gets an
    even cut of the phase 1 budget and has to buy the features and functions
    they want. It will get interesting.!
Example: MusicLocal
Feature or Idea!    Brand (H,M,L)!   User (H,M,L)!   Phase Decision!


Mobile Site:        Low!             High!           Beta Phase 2
Upload of Pictures!                                  (watch traffic to
                                                     decide if functionality
                                                     is implemented in
                                                     phase 2 release)!

Website: Multi      High!            High!           Phase 1!
picture uploading
during posting
process!
But wait! there s more...




       Than I can cover in 3 hours.
 But now you know the right place to start.
Thanks

 Abbycovert@gmail.com

     @ Abby_The_IA

   www.Abbytheia.com

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Understanding Information Architecture: A Workshop

  • 1. Understanding Information Architecture A workshop by ! @Abby_the_IA
  • 3. Agenda for today Answer these questions: •  What is Information Architecture (IA)?! •  What does “good” mean?! •  How is IA best used and when?! •  What IA tools can I walk out of here with today?! Attempt these stunts: •  Funnel development ! •  Persona segmentation ! •  Collaborative design session brief creation!
  • 4. Similar to what Architecture does for physical structures
  • 5. Information Architecture provides actionable Blueprints of what is being designed and built.
  • 6. What is information architecture (IA)? •  Making complex things be clear(er)! •  Making things not just look good, but be good! •  Consensus facilitation! --! •  NOT “just Sitemaps and Wireframes”! •  NOT “the old name for UX”! •  NOT “just digital”!
  • 7. I Have used IA to help •  Change the audience for Sharpie from a office supply consumer to teenagers looking for a self expression tool! •  Grow a 150,000 member Facebook fan base for JELL-O over the weekend.! •  Pilot a revolutionary diet for people with Type 2 diabetes! •  Analyze and strategically prioritize digital marketing efforts and improvements for Herman Miller in support of their movement into the B to C market!
  • 8. Research Strategy Architecture Design Execution basic process of making things
  • 9. Research Strategy Architecture Design Execution Why What Who When How Next ? ? ? ? ? ? Questions that Need Answers
  • 10. IA can be used when •  Conducting Research (Persona Research, User Interviewing, User Testing, Competitive Research, Contextual Inquiry)! ! •  Formulating Strategic Insight (Stakeholder Interviewing, Analytics, Goal Setting, Key Performance Indicator Development, Heuristic Evaluation)! ! •  Creating Structural Blueprints (Product Roadmaps, Site maps, Process/Flow Diagrams, Requirements, Experience Maps, Cross Channel Maps, Prototypes)!
  • 11. Research Strategy Architecture Design Execution Why What Who When How Next ? ? ? ? ? ? Goal Setting Workshop Persona Workshop 3 tools of the IA Collaborative trade we will Design Session learn today
  • 12. Lesson 1: Using goal Setting to establish checks and balances upfront
  • 13. In this lesson •  You will gain a basic understanding of the tools used for measuring and evaluating the quality of a product or serviceʼs user experience ! •  You will learn the importance of prioritizing what you measure. ! •  You will learn the importance of setting goals! •  You will understand the difference between directional goals and specific goals! •  You will be able to help your team to understand the goals for your user experience!
  • 14. What do we use to measure? •  User testing ! •  Satisfaction Surveys! •  Usage Data/Analytics! •  Social Media Statistics! •  Sales data, even non digital equivalents! •  Qualitative metrics (sales force or customer service quotas)!
  • 15. What are we actually measuring? •  The simple answer is… NOT everything.! •  The more complicated one is … measure what matters.!
  • 16. Awareness: How do people know Getting at about you? Or not what matters know about you? ! Acquisition: Attach to the Funnel:! Where are you bringing people to ! your product from? •  What you have today! •  Opportunities you Distraction: Conversion: Competition: When they don't Where are When they have! proceed? places that proceed but not Where do they people decide with you? Start thinking about go? Add why? to proceed with Where do they your business go? Add why? what you would need to measure in order to determine if each part Action: What is the 1 of the funnel is thing you want optimized.! users to do Loyalty: Do they ever come back? (Optional)
  • 17. Awareness: Example:     Social Media Word of Mouth Small   Acquisition: Blogger Network Community   Search Engines Advertisement News  Collec6ve     Social Media Distraction: Conversion: Competition:   Advertisements Home page Article page Main Stream Music Sites Twitter page With  the  goal  of   Facebook page Other Music Blogs providing  quality   local  music  news     Action: Read the News   (Note:  I  made  this  up,  no   hipsters  were  harmed  in  the   Loyalty: crea6on  of  this  example)   Sign up for the community (Optional)
  • 18. Awareness: How do We Add  burning   Social Media Word of Mouth people have no find us?! social ques6ons  and   Where are loyal users Acquisition: media! what  you  know   likeliest to Blogger Network Search Engines come from?! Advertisement Social Media Distraction: Conversion: Competition: Home page Main Stream Advertisements Article page Music Sites Twitter page Facebook page Other Music Blogs We donʼt track How long Action: suggested Read the should we content today! News expect people to stay?! We have never Do people talked to users! appreciate Our time on suggested site average is content? Do Loyalty: less than a Sign up for the they want to community minute! share?! (Optional)
  • 19. Finding the right measures If you have a question about! Examples to be looking at…! If something is effective! Completion rates ! Whether something is findable! Speed to find! Peopleʼs Expectations! Bounce Rates & Time on Site! Satisfaction! Interviews, Surveys, Ask Sales and CSRs ! Is enough Information provided?! Are people clicking to further information consistently?! Are people using the path as designed?! Click path data! (Courtesy  of  Richard  Dalton)  
  • 20. Attach measurement plans to questions The  Big  Ques6ons   Planning  to  measure   Awareness: How do people find User interviews and Surveys! out about us?! Acquisition: Where will our loyal Surveys, Analytics: Traffic Sources for Repeat users be coming from?! Users ! Conversion: What is the average Analytics: Time on site compared to industry time on site for us? What is averages and for loyalty users vs single article normal?! users! Action: Will people interact with Analytics: Click rates on items suggested on article the content we suggest they pages! interact with after reading the entry article?! Loyalty: How will loyalty users Analytics: Compare variety of points across loyalty differ from new users?! users and single article users! Other: How should sharing work? Surveys, Interviews, Analytics: Track social sharing What do people share?! behavior to establish baselines for types of events!
  • 21. Exercise 1 Imagine that your team is being asked to redesign the General Assembly experience. ! ! As a group, fill in the funnel with: ! ! q Facts – you (like many startups) wonʼt have many ;)! q Questions youʼd like answers to! q Existing pieces of the experience! q Opportunities to explore! q How you might measure things along the way!
  • 22. Setting Goals: in 2 Delicious Flavors •  Directional Goals! •  Specific Goals!
  • 24. What makes a Good scale? ²  Challenge the old with the new! ²  Define success differently! ²  Manage priority and scope!
  • 25. Show departures from consensus
  • 26. Establishing Specific Goals Goals should be S.M.A.R.T ! ! q  Specific! q  Measurable! q  Achievable! q  Relevant! q  Time bound!
  • 27. Example: Specific Goals Our Goals for the next 6 months! –  Establish an average time on site with our loyalty users of 2+ minutes (matching industry standards for news sites)! –  Produce an average of 100+ unique social media impressions per month for the news organization brand! –  Increase the likelihood of loyalty users to click of secondary materials from 10% to 20% through better content tagging and human curation!
  • 28. Lesson 2: Personas distill research into weaponized bits
  • 29. In this lesson •  You will understand the value of personas in the design process! •  You will be able to identify potential sources for personas ! •  You will learn how to segment target users into persona targets! •  You will understand why stories are a powerful tool to incorporate into your personas! •  You will learn strategies and common pitfalls when selecting photos to accompany your personas. !
  • 30. Why personas work: •  People like having someone to design for: meaning there is already a persona or two living in the head of every member of your team.! •  Personas inspire teams to work towards a shared vision instead of many disparate ones!
  • 31. Choosing Representative Personas: •  Step  1:  Make  a  post  it  for  each  user  type  you  can  think  of   •  Step  2:  Group  them  on  a  wall  into  clusters  by  how  they  might   think  about  or  use  your  product  or  service   •  Step  3:  Pick  3-­‐5  clusters  of  people  that  seem  like  the  ones   most  important  to  whom  you  are  trying  to  reach   •  Step  4:  Choose  one  “person”  from  each  of  those  clusters  that   you  feel  could  stand  up  and  make  decisions  for  that  whole   group  if  a  vote  were  to  occur   •  Step  5:  Decide  what  you  know,  and  what  you  need  to  know   •  Step  6:  Devise  a  plan  to  find  out  what  you  don’t  yet  know.  
  • 32. Who to Prioritize? Urgent Not Urgent Important Important 1st 3rd Not Important Not Important 2nd SOL Urgent Not Urgent
  • 33. Quick ways to get to know your users: •  Talk to potential users! •  Talk to actual users (if you have them)! •  Talk to competitive users (no one said you couldnʼt – unless they did, then donʼt)! •  Spend time shadowing users in their real lives! •  Watch people using equivalent or similar things to what you are making! •  Use competitive things in the market! •  Social media listening! •  Blogs, customer reviews, forums… the internet is HUGE!
  • 34. Example: theArtistsway Persona research done on Urgent Not Urgent 3 segments:! 1 Professional Artists •  Survey distributed on Important Important social media for 3 types of 3 Students artists to learn differences! Craft Artists 2 •  Buy-along trips to local art supply stores! •  Remote usability tests of current sites used for Not Important Important buying supplies online to discuss functionality and pain points! •  Interviews and studio visits were done to Urgent Not Urgent discuss storage of supplies, how far in advance supplies are bought etc! !
  • 35. Exercise 2:   q  Individually brainstorm Urgent Not Urgent the different types of users the GA campus Important needs to serve (and not Important serve)! q  Within your team, plot them on the urgency/ important 4 up ! q  Decide the top 3 clusters Not Important Important you would research as personas and the best ways to research them! Urgent Not Urgent
  • 36. Building each persona: •  Step 1: Choosing a name and photo! •  Step 2: Rough demographics, home life, work life, digital life! •  Step 3: Attitudes and Product/Service/Industry Related Feelings ! Common pitfalls in photo and name selection:!  ! •  Racially insensitive or inappropriate! •  Hot people! •  Stock photos or headshots! •  “Thatʼs not so-n-so”! •  Team or customer photos or names! !
  • 37. Narrating each personas experience •  Step 1: Put on the shoes of each persona and describe the world they experience today. ! •  Step 2: Write a story of what they see. What do they wish was better? Where would your product fit in?! If your product is in their story today, be brave!!  ! Show the under belly and admit the flaws of what you are offering through their eyes. What is their likely reaction?! !
  • 38. How to tell the story effectively •  Capture quotes you think people would say or emotions you anticipate they would have! •  Try to write the personas in their words! •  Grab screenshots and video grabs where you can to show the experience through their eyes! •  As you read your story, use the visuals to support it! •  Ask your team for confirmation that the story seems realistic and not over the top in either a positive or negative direction!
  • 39. Example: theArtistsway About Janie: Professional Artist Digital Life: Janie is a designer at heart and by trade. She Janie is a Mac enthusiast for work, but a is an artist living and working in a small studio mostly iPad user when it comes to her she shares with husband and photographer -- casual browsing and emailing. She also in the West Park Slope neighborhood of is starting to get into social media and Brooklyn. loves to post things she finds on her Facebook wall for her friends to see and occasionally to her agencyʼs blog. When shopping for clothing, art supplies, whatever: quality and style matter to Janie Technology and Media Diet: more than price. She doesnʼt often shop at mass retailers and loves spending a Saturday • Loves to browse blogs and design browsing the local markets and boutique magazine sites on her iPad. Also a retailers. She considers her digital life much iPhone 3G user, but doesn't browse the web very consistently from it. the same. And chooses to use devices and • Loves her Macbook Air for ease of "I'm finally digital, now tools she likes to look at and use. travel and slick design • Bose noise canceling headphones, I'm ready for my art In the last 5 years Jane's entire life has also essential for travel • Netflix Instant Subscriber, great for business to be." migrated online, but she feels like her business her since they donʼt have cable as an artist has been left without a place that is anymore Age: 53 meant for her. All the tools available are for • eBook purchaser, keeps the clutter consultants, not artists. down in a NYC apartment Work Life: Professional Artist • Has a personal and business Home Life: Married to Michael, 54. Design Minded + Facebook accounts • Has a business twitter account which No children. Owner of a 2 cats she doesnʼt touch but tells her staff Business Savvy + Income Level: 120k household about content to post . + Digital Savvy
  • 40. Lesson 3: Sketching Experiences and managing scope
  • 41. In this lesson •  You will understand the basics requirements for preparing and hosting a collaborative sketching session.! •  You will learn the basic outline of a process to facilitate collaborative sketching and a basic structure for synthesizing ideas that come out of a collaborative design session.! •  You will synthesize ideas generated by others for use in future product planning!
  • 42. What s the difference between sketching and drawing? •  Drawing: The art or skill or making such pictures or diagrams! •  Sketching: Give a brief account or general outline of!
  • 43. Only you can prevent brainstorms •  The most important thing to remember when running a session is that the quality of what you put into preparing will reflect itself in what comes out of the session! •  If you go in and throw blank paper around and say “lets draw the new product” – you will get blank paper of a generic product out of it. !
  • 44. Preparing a good brief Just like on a secret spy mission, a good briefing should have:! ! •  Intelligence: from the competition (herein referred to as the enemy) audience, market and/or industry! •  Dossier(s): Your personas from the last lesson! •  State of Affairs: Where you are today (if anywhere) ! •  The Assignment: A set of experiences you want them to redesign during the session ! !
  • 45. Framing the Assignment(s) •  Pick a Persona! •  Pick an important task (something the user will accomplish)! •  Describe the personaʼs completion of the task (as the world is today)! •  Draft the assignment for the session!
  • 46. Example: Current Situation: Joan is a professional artist who orders the same supplies on a regular basis. Today she manually orders monthly and on an as needed basis through Dickblick.com. She manages her business through spreadsheets and a variety of paper based methods. Much of the rest of her life is now online and she is interested in a new way, but hasnʼt heard of such a thing for artists like her.! ! Your Mission: Work with your team to envision a product experience for Joan to manage and execute her monthly art supply purchases online. For this first task, letʼs start with Joan hearing about this new product on a site like Facebook, investigating it and signing up to use it for the first time.!
  • 47. Exercise 3 Write a short scenario for each of your GA personas. ! ! If time allows, we will vote on one scenario to sketch through.!
  • 48. What Happens after the Brief? •  Brief (5 Min)! •  Sketch Individually (10 min)! •  Group Sketch (15 min)! •  Present to Room (5 min per group)! !
  • 49. Fortune Favors the Bold Bring in Friends: Ok so you are sitting there saying, I am one person, no team. Thatʼs ok! Invite some friends. It wonʼt be exactly ideal BUT I bet you get something out of it.! ! Bring in Users: This exercise is excellent with an internal team. But bringing users into a room and doing this together can be an amazing way to unlock insight and bring new ideas to life. But I will warn you it takes careful planning and excellent moderation.! !
  • 50. What is Scope and Why Should you care? Scope  =     What  we  all  agreed  to  do  
  • 51. Preparing to Scope •  Truth #1 Some of the ideas that came out of the session will be bad ! •  Truth #2 Someone will have to make a call! •  Truth #3 Not all important features will have been captured.!
  • 52. Understanding Prioritization Brandʼs Prioritization:! User Prioritization:! ü  Meets Competitive/Industry or ü  Appropriate for my life! Regulatory Bar! ü  Relevant to me! ü  Meets Contractual Obligation! ü  Availability of Resources or ü  Within reach in price and Partners! availability! ü  Budget to Produce! What measurement is fair?! ! •  High: Must have and would consider holding launch until I get it! •  Medium: Is pretty essential but launch is priority over it! •  Low: Nice to have but not essential!
  • 53. A format for prioritizing: Feature or Brand (H,M,L)! User (H,M,L)! Phase Cost/Hours to Idea! Decision! Produce! Insert! Insert! Insert! Insert! Insert! ! •  Allows for dual prioritization! •  Allows for phase designation outside of prioritization! •  Indicates cost/time per feature or idea (optional)! If things get messy: Get out the monopoly money. Each stakeholder gets an even cut of the phase 1 budget and has to buy the features and functions they want. It will get interesting.!
  • 54. Example: MusicLocal Feature or Idea! Brand (H,M,L)! User (H,M,L)! Phase Decision! Mobile Site: Low! High! Beta Phase 2 Upload of Pictures! (watch traffic to decide if functionality is implemented in phase 2 release)! Website: Multi High! High! Phase 1! picture uploading during posting process!
  • 55. But wait! there s more... Than I can cover in 3 hours. But now you know the right place to start.
  • 56. Thanks Abbycovert@gmail.com @ Abby_The_IA www.Abbytheia.com (slides will be up today)