The document discusses building great user experiences into products. It defines user experience as the quality of interaction a person has with a design, from simple artifacts to complex experiences. A great user experience creates a solid foundation for a product. The four cornerstones of user experience are content, structure, layout, and interaction design. The document emphasizes listening to users, understanding their diverse needs, directly observing how people use products, and evolving designs based on user feedback.
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4. “ User Experience (abbreviated: UX) is the quality of experience a person has when interacting with a specific design. This can range from a specific artifact, such as a cup, toy or website, up to larger, integrated experiences such as a museum or an airport.” User Experience Network (www.usnet.org) User Experience Defined
5. A Great User Experience Creates a Solid Foundation for Your Product. Source: http://michael.hightechproductmanagement.com/2006/12/seven_traits_of_successful_pro.html
18. 1.) Excellent Communication Skills 2.) Ability to Lead without Authority 3.) Ability to Learn Fast 4.) Great Business Acumen 5.) Love for Products of All Types 6.) Eye for Details 7.) Skills to Do the Routine Stuff When Needed Source: http://michael.hightechproductmanagement.com/2006/12/seven_traits_of_successful_pro.html Seven Shared Traits of Great UX Designers and Product Managers: http://michael.hightechproductmanagement.com/2006/12/seven_traits_of_successful_pro.html
Product managers feel as though they should be responsible since they manage the product, but user experience professionals feel as though they should be responsible since they spend time researching user needs and interacting directly with customers and users.
All user experiences are comprised of four cornerstones. So are products.
Product managers feel as though they should be responsible since they manage the product, but user experience professionals feel as though they should be responsible since they spend time researching user needs and interacting directly with customers and users.
Seven Shared Traits of Great UX Designers and Product Managers: 1.) Excellent Communication Skills 2.) Ability to Lead without Authority 3.) Ability to Learn Fast 4.) Great Business Acumen 5.) Love for Products of All Types 6.) Eye for Details 7.) Skills to Do the Routine Stuff When Needed Source: http://michael.hightechproductmanagement.com/2006/12/seven_traits_of_successful_pro.html
All user experiences are comprised of four cornerstones. So are products.
Surface brings everything together visually: What will the finished product look like? Skeleton makes structure concrete: What components will enable people to use the site? Structure gives shape to scope: How will the pieces of the site fit together and behave? Scope transforms strategy into requirements: What features will the site need to include? Strategy is where it all begins: What do we want to get out of the site? What do our users want?
There is a fundamental difference between what the product should do and how it should do it.
Users Come in All Shapes and Sizes.
Users Are Not Sheep.
All products are comprised of four cornerstones.
First of its kind 46" touch screen vending machine. Current platform (150 units currently in Simon Malls throughout America) developed for generating ad revenue. Users can view 360° views of Coca-Cola products all within an immersive individually branded experience. Bubbles. Creaft and Experience Vision.
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Description : Promotes personal recommendations and referrals within online social circles, often rewarding referrers for their efforts. Sometimes integrated in social shopping portals (e.g. Kaboodle, This Next) that bundle ratings and reviews and social shopping tools. The recommendations and referrals toolset includes Share With Your Network: (social bookmarking) Recommended products, deals and tips are bookmarked and syndicated to friends, fans and followers Referral Programs : Rewarding customers and partners for referring new customers (e.g. Vente-Privée, Gilt, Amazon Affiliates) Social Recommendations : Personal shopping recommendations based on profile similarities to other customers (e.g. Apple Genius Recommendations, Amazon Recommendations, Netflix Cinematch, Honk) Review : Whereas ratings and reviews are usually visible to all, recommendations and referrals are personalised endorsements designed to realise the referral value of customers and advocates. Often take the form of online versions of traditional customer-get-customer referral-rewards programs (e.g. Sky Introduce a Friend) but can also use syndication tool via Twitter and Facebook to share recommendations with friends, fans and followers. For example, fashion label Juicy Couture increased conversion rates by 162% using CreateTheGroup’s recommendations and referrals social software. Powered primarily by SI heuristics of liking, scarcity (of information) and reciprocity. Innovations include social recommender systems (e.g. Stylefeeder, Honk) that automate personal recommendations based on algorithms comparing similarities between customer purchasing histories and profiles. Solutions Providers : Facebook Connect, PowerReviews Social Megaphone, CreateTheGroup Social Software Tags : Share With Your Network (SWYN), social bookmarking, Referral Programs, Vente-Privée, Gilt, Amazon Affiliates, Social Recommendations, Apple Genius, Amazon Recommendations, Netflix Cinematch, Facebook Connect, PowerReviews Social Megaphone, Stylefeeder, Twitter, Honk, CreateTheGroup, Juicy Couture., Kaboodle, ThisNext. Bottom Line : If what you sell is really worth recommending, recommendations and referrals should be top of the social commerce list.
Hire Product “Presidents” not Product “Managers”. As presidents, product managers hold responsibility for the overall success of the product, including the user experience. For technology products, the user experience is a significant part of the success of the product. Product management (PM), though, also must ensure that all aspects of the product come together, including sale of the product, technology, legal, business model, positioning, branding, and marketing of the product. To succeed, product managers need to act like leaders, not dictators, with support from cabinet members. Where a president will work with officials responsible for defense, transportation, and agriculture, product managers’ cabinets consist of stakeholders responsible for marketing, technology, finance, and other areas. Rather than by a vote-driven democracy, product managers are held accountable by their users and customers, demonstrated by revenue, profit, usage, and other market-driven metrics.
Seven Shared Traits of Great UX Designers and Product Managers: 1.) Excellent Communication Skills 2.) Ability to Lead without Authority 3.) Ability to Learn Fast 4.) Great Business Acumen 5.) Love for Products of All Types 6.) Eye for Details 7.) Skills to Do the Routine Stuff When Needed Source: http://michael.hightechproductmanagement.com/2006/12/seven_traits_of_successful_pro.html