Breaking down what UX means

Breaking down what UX means
Ich Gichuki | Service & Business Designer, Utu

An Innovation Company
that Delivers Growth

We are an innovation consultancy delivering meaningful,
sustainable top-line growth
We employ a service design approach to address our clients’
strategic objectives
An Innovation Company that Delivers Growth

Vincent Ndonye
Team Lead
Ichungwa Gichuki
Experience Design
Ian Gichuhi
Creative Technology
Makumi Wanjohi
Product Design
Olivia Muia
Brand Strategy
Mburu Njoroge
Visual Design
Juliet Mukunga
Experience Design
Ashi Kariuki
Creative Strategy
Jayline Karusi
Research
Kevin Oduor
Communication Strategy
Winston Wachanga
Project Management
Daniel Aineah
Software Engineer

Five disciplines one ﬂuid process
We use empathy to thread-the-needle between insight and impact
DESIGN
RESEARCH
We use qualitative
research to understand
human behaviour and
use the insights to design
products and experiences.
We design strategies,
tools and conversations
to improve experiences
in face-to-face service
provision.
HUMAN
SERVICES DESIGN
We have a full stack UX
team that translates
business strategy into
delightful experiences
with improved outcomes
DIGITAL
PRODUCTS DESIGN
We help organisations
deﬁne their desired
culture and hold design
sprint workshops
to create, measure and
celebrate the new culture.
CULTURE
TRANSFORMATION
We design, develop,
implement and integrate
cloud, mobile, and social
productivity solutions
including support &
managed services.
BUSINESS
PRODUCTIVITY APPS

Our method is holistic, long-term, insight-driven and goal-directed.
Ten Types Innovation Framework
Customer
Engagement
Proﬁt
Model
Network Structure Process Product
Performance
Product
System
Service Channel Brand
CONFIGURATION OFFERING EXPERIENCE
PROFIT MODEL
Thewayinwhichyoumake money
NETWORK
Connections with others to create value
STRUCTURE
Alignmentofyourtalentandassets
PROCESS
Signature or superior methods for doing
your work
PRODUCT PERFORMANCE
Distinguishingfeaturesand functionality
PRODUCT SYSTEM
Complementary products and services
SERVICE
Support and enhancements that surround
your offerings
CHANNEL
How your offerings are delivered to
customers and users
BRAND
Representation of your offerings and business
CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
Distinctive interactions you foster

Double Diamond Process
Our method is ﬁrst divergent then converges and is iterative.
EMPATHISE DEFINE IDEATE
ITERATE
Problem Statement
TESTPROTOTYPE
Trigger Solution

Breaking down what UX means
Ich Gichuki | Service & Business Designer, Utu
#producttank

Hey, can you ‘do the UX’ for us?
A tale of UX as a misconception.
Article: https://bit.ly/2xUV1Wp
Fabricio Teixeira | Design Director at Work & Co, Founder of UX Collective | https://journey.uxdesign.cc

Hi, I’m John, UX designer starting today on this project.
Cool, I’m Joe, project manager. Glad to have you on the team.
Glad to be here. How can I help?
So... We have designed a ﬁrst version of our app, but we’re now thinking of
doing the UX to improve a few things… People are downloading the app,
using it once, but not really coming back to it over time.

So... We have designed a ﬁrst version of our app, but we’re now thinking of
doing the UX to improve a few things… People are downloading the app,
using it once, but not really coming back to it over time.
“… do the UX…”
What they meant: can you help us think through the app’s interaction design, structure
and navigation?
Where the misconception is: presuming one single person is responsible for successfully
conceiving, designing, implementing and validating the user’s experience with a product.

A good user experience depends on:
Clear structure and navigation ﬂows
Great copy and tone of voice
Compelling and clear visual design
The app’s performance and speed
Thoughtful transitions and animations
Clear structure and navigation ﬂows
The product making sense to that user
The user’s internet connection
A clear understanding by the user of what the product does
The product adding value to what that user needs;
How accessible the product is
The user’s social, cultural and demographic context
Where the user is at the time they engage with the app
How the user is feeling that particular day they use the product
Everything the user has seen in their entire life
etc, etc, etc.
The user’s mobile phone performance and speed

What is UX?
Interaction Perceptions Dynamism
"User experience" encompasses all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the
company, its services, and its products.

What is UX?
It includes the practical,
experiential, affective,
meaningful and valuable
aspects of interaction

What is UX?
It includes a person’s
perceptions of system
aspects such as utility,
ease of use and efﬁciency

What is UX?
It is dynamic as it is constantly modiﬁed
over time due to changing usage
circumstances and changes to individual
systems as well as the wider usage
context in which they can be found.

User Experience Design is the process or an approach
of creating products and services that provide
meaningful and relevant experiences to users.
It involves the design of the entire process of acquiring and
integrating the product, including aspects of branding,
design, usability, and function.
Let’s talk about UX Design

UX Design is user-centred
UX design encompasses the
entire user journey - it’s a
multidisciplinary ﬁeld
UX designers come from a variety
of backgrounds such as visual
design, programming, psychology
and interaction design.
A UX designer’s typical tasks vary, but
often include user research, creating
personas, designing wireframes,
interactive prototypes and testing designs.
Understand
context of use
Specify user
requirements
Design
solutions
Evaluate
against
requirements

Your goal is to get more and more users and engage
them with your product
How can the user experience of your product help?
How can you measure if your users are engaged?
And how can you ﬁnd out why they are not?
How is UX measured?

The answer lies in data. Metrics help turn data into
digestible information, which can help drawing
conclusions and making decisions
What are metrics? What’s the difference between “metrics”
and “UX metrics”?
Why should you use UX metrics?
When should you measure your design?
How can you deﬁne the right metrics?
Who should deﬁne these metrics?
How is UX measured?

Standards of measurement assessing a product’s
efﬁciency, performance, progress, or quality.
They provide much more insight into the real
problems you’re trying to solve
They can tell you exactly what users are doing, but
they can’t tell you why they’re doing it or how to make
them stop
What are Metrics?

UX metrics represent a product’s user experience,
which is hard to quantify, but some useful
frameworks can help
Many big brands use UX metrics to improve the user
experience of their products (Google, Airbnb, YouTube).
One from Youtube which measures users’ engagement is:
“Average number of minutes spent watching videos/user/day”.
Metrics & UX metrics

The most straightforward answer is better
decision making.
The key is to ﬁgure out what pieces will improve
learning and decision making.
It lets us know where a product suffers the most.
Why bother with UX metrics?

When to measure a design
Before Product Launch Before Product Improvement After Redesign

Best time to deﬁne a
measurement plan with
UX metrics
First-time users can give
crucial data

Product on the market should
already have metrics set up
Before the next design sprint,
deﬁne the UX metrics in advance
and implement them in the app,
Present user insights for the whole
design team

Before implementing any changes
to your site, gather enough data
going one or two months back
Measure and compare the designs
to see if it generated the expected
result

You need a plan. Know what to look for!
If your products is a website, just wiring Google Analytics
to your site is not enough
Not knowing exactly what to looking for can get you lost
in data
You may come to the wrong conclusion, which will lead to
the wrong decision
How to deﬁne UX metrics

Take a step back. Look at the big picture, and spend
the time and resources to make a measurement plan.
There are a few frameworks which can help define the
metrics to measure product user experience.
How to define UX metrics
Mobile App UX Principles  
Improving user experience and optimizing conversion
Stephen Griffiths from Google
The HEART Framework
Defines the metrics to measure product user experience
Kerry Rodden, Hilary Hutchinson & Xin Fu from Google’s Research Team

A User Experience metrics and goals toolkit
There are 5 categories to think about from the user’s perspective:
Happiness – Measures of attitudes, often collected via survey
Engagement – Level of involvement
Adoption – Gaining new users of a product or a feature
Retention – User return rate
Task Success – Efﬁciency, effectiveness, and error rate
The HEART framework

Happiness
Engagement
Adoption
Retention
Task Success
The HEART framework
Goals Signals Metrics

First, deﬁne just one or two things that are really
important for the product.
The fewer actionable metrics, the better.
For example, let’s choose “Engagement” for the
product YouTube for this exercise.
After choosing a category, there is a three-step
process to follow:
Goal > Signal > Metrics
The HEART framework - Step 1: Choose Categories

Start with the goals!
It can be really hard to start on an abstract level.
In this step, deﬁne the “big picture”.
What does engagement mean from a user’s
perspective. The goal of “engagement” for the
product YouTube is:
“for users to enjoy the videos they watch and
discover more videos.”
The HEART framework - Step 2: Deﬁne a Goal

Break the goal down to signals
Only after goals are deﬁned can they be broken
down to signal.
How do we know we have reached the goal?
Deﬁne signals which will answer this question.
The signal for “engagement” will be
“the amount of time users will spend watching
videos.”
The HEART framework - Step 3: Goal to Signals

Convert signal to metrics
Signals can be transformed into metrics that can
be measured in the product.
The metric of the signal will be:
“average number of minutes spent watching
videos/user/day.”
The HEART framework - Step 4: Signals to Metrics

More on HEART
Read more about the HEART
framework from its creator, Kerry
Rodden. Introduce the
framework to your team via the
Digital Therapy presentation.
https://library.gv.com/how-to-choose-the-right-ux-
metrics-for-your-product-5f46359ab5be
http://www.dtelepathy.com/ux-metrics/#intro
The HEART framework
More Frameworks
Other frameworks which can
help deﬁne metrics include the
PULSE and the AARRR. Once you
have a plan, start the dirty work
and apply your metrics to your
product.
https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/ux-metrics-tracking/
http://www.dtelepathy.com/ux-metrics/#intro
UX Data Tools
There are tons of analytics tools
which can help. The most
popular ones include Google
Analytics, Kissmetrics, Mixpanel,
Crashlytics, Firebase, and Hotjar.
https://uxstudioteam.com/ux-blog/ux-research-tools/
Following these steps (Goals > Signals > Metrics)
ensures getting actionable metrics, information
that will guide you in the right direction.

A big list of UX KPIs and Metrics
Remember, For a UX metric to be useful it
must have:
A timescale
A benchmark
A reason to be reported
An associated action

A big list of UX KPIs and Metrics
Categories
• Classic / common
• Banners
• Financial / sales / business
• RSS
• Call / customer contact centre
• SEO
• Social media
• Third party / benchmarks
• Email & campaigns
• Internal search
• IA
• User testing metrics:
• Satisfaction measurements
Check out Joe Leech's big list
of UX KPIs and Metrics
https://bit.ly/2Rs697U

How UX is measured
UX Laddering

The UX Ladder
The UX ladder serves as a simple
benchmark for assessing the quality
of your user experience now, and
provides goals to aspire to in the
future.

The UX Ladder - Functional
The bottom rung of the ladder is when a
product is functional.
That means the product is okay and
works most of the time if you take the
time to ﬁgure it out.

The UX Ladder - Usable
A step up from functional is usable.
Usable is 100% better than functional.
Users can complete tasks without major
frustrations.

The UX Ladder - Comfortable
A step up from usable is comfortable.
This can also be called intuitive—things
are in the right place.

The UX Ladder - Delightful
A step up from comfortable is delightful.
The product is easy to use and actually
surprises users, activating positive
emotions.

The UX Ladder - Meaningful
Finally, the top rung of the ladder is
meaningful.
This is the Holy Grail of products. They
create meaning in users’ lives.
They can change not only an individual’s
behavior, but also the economy and the
world.

The UX Ladder - Exercise
Functional
That means the
product is okay and
works most of the
time if you take the
time to ﬁgure it out.
Usable
Users can complete
tasks without major
frustrations.
Comfortable
Intuitive - things
are in the right
place
Delightful
The product is easy
to use and actually
surprises users,
activating positive
emotions.
Meaningful
They create meaning
in users’ lives. They
can change an
individual’s behavior
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Missed Opportunities in UX
UX Debt

We create experiences that are functional, usable, comfortable,
delightful and meaningful
UX problems occur due to
•Limited time, budgets and resources;
•Lack of understanding impact in UX when making design decisions
To improve your product, identify the threats.
UX Problems lead to UX Debt

Meaningful
Delightful
Comfortable
Usable
Functional
Current Product Quality
ExperienceQuality

Meaningful
Delightful
Comfortable
Usable
Functional
ExperienceQuality
Target Quality

Meaningful
Delightful
Comfortable
Usable
Functional
ExperienceQuality
UX Debt
Target Quality

Intentional UX Debt
Types of UX Debt
Unintentional UX Debt

Intentional UX debt is a result of decisions made based
on project constraints. Intentional UX Debt can be created
any time in the UX process cycle. It is caused by:
•Not enough budget, time, or people to design, test, iterate,
and build everything.
•Lots of budget and time but not enough people.
•Budget and more than enough people, but no time
Intentional UX Debt

Unintentional UX debt results from misconceptions
about users and from changes in their needs, abilities,
or expectations over time.
The worst Unintentional UX Debt is at product conception
Unintentional UX Debt naturally increases over time.
Unintentional UX Debt

•Determine if and where UX Debt exists
•Compare severity to importance
•Make time to ﬁx it
•Socialize and systemize the concept
Get rid of UX Debt

“First you make it work, then you make it work well, and then
you make it so people can't imagine life any other way.
That's UX”.
Karl Fast

Good UX design can yield incredible
improvements in buyer behavior, lead
generation, and visitor engagement.
Iteratively improve UX

UX design works best when it’s an iterative process. With each
iteration, a UX designer can
•identify new opportunities,
•respond to changes in business goals and user needs,
•adapt to current market trends and advances in technology.

Developing a repeatable UX design process is not rocket science.
Best practices for UX design boil down to 6 distinct phases:
Understand > Research > Sketch > Design > Implement > Evaluate

Breaking down what UX means

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