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Web Strategy
What It Is & Why We Need to Care
Jason Pamental | @jpamental
Future of Web Design | NYC 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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About me
✴ Jason Pamental Web Strategist, Designer, Technologist
✴ Have worked as strategist, designer,
developer and cat-pixel-wrangler since
roughly the launch of Netscape 1
✴ Can be found @jpamental in most places
✴ Post thoughts, work and pics from
Instagr.am @ thinkinginpencil.com
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Write this down
✴ What we do as web professionals
is awesome (and I don’t mean just cool)
✴ The web has the potential to be the single
most pervasive & transformative
development in the history of business
✴ But only if we learn enough about that
organization to see how it can be applied
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“I need to hire a web
designer”
and why this is the worst possible thing to hear from a
potential client
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“I need to hire a web
designer”
what they really mean is
because when they say
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“I need a web solution”
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The bad news first
✴ They probably don’t know what’s involved
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The bad news first
✴ They probably don’t know what’s involved
business analysis discovery
stakeholder interviews
requirements/needs analysis
user research
information architecture
UX IxD
content development
prototyping
visual designHTML/CSS
development
testing
deployment social media integration
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Here’s the good news
✴ They’re asking you for the solution
✴ You’re the expert – be one
✴ Communicate. Educate. Illuminate.
✴ An educated, engaged client is always a
better client
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Thisiswhere
webstrategy comesin
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Web strategy:
a definition
Web strategy is about using knowledge of
your client’s business & your fresh
perspective to find opportunities that
transform your client’s business. It’s
selecting the right technologies to solve
problems & create opportunities by
applying them with great design
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Web strategy is NOT
content strategy
✴ It’s broader than that – it’s about
leadership and the growth of our industry
✴ It’s about seeing the whole picture
✴ Look across silos – within your client’s
organization and within your own group
✴ Help your client see new possibilities
through your lens of design and technology
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Head of the tripod
✴ We’re not just designers or developers
✴ We’re consultants
(sorry – wasn’t supposed to use profanity)
✴ We must understand our client’s business
& see the things they can’t
✴ Use you knowledge of design & intimacy
with technology to truly transform
✴ Don’t forget that your client is likely a user too
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Um, OK. How?
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Get out of your silo
✴ Inspiration and innovation come from
looking outward for a better view in
✴ FOWD 2008: Hillman Curtis’ James
Victore movie, Transit maps – look
everywhere & at everything
✴ Look at new ideas in business education
and management (design thinking,
motivation, psychology – see bibliography
on last slide)
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Why we should care
✴ Happier clients = better
recommendations and more work
✴ Greater opportunities to do great work
✴ Progression in our field leading to greater
acceptance/integration of web design and
technology throughout our clients'/
employers' businesses
✴ (leads to more of points one & two)
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Who are these
mythical creatures?
(here’s some examples)
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Dan Mall
✴ Senior Designer at
Big Spaceship
✴ Technical Editor at
A List Apart
✴ Flash guru (sorry, but it fits)
✴ Knows tech backwards &
forwards – a comfy pencil
in his design kit
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Paul Boag
✴ Been designing/
developing sites since
he had hair
✴ Is near-terminally
curious
✴ Always looks through
the eyes of the client &
the user
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You(ifyouwanttobe)
✴ You have two sides of
your brain –
engage both
✴ Be curious & act on it
✴ Be a "Mad Scientist" -
experiment, try stuff
✴ Learn about business –
how it works, how to
influence it
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Businesses are like
people, only bigger
but challenges are different for organizations & agencies
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Corporate/In-house
web teams
✴ Web team usually part of marketing,
corporate communications or IT
✴ Usually very little incentive/interest in
working across those boundaries
(time, cost, executive ego)
✴ Needs to start at the top: CWO & team
should focus on customer while serving all
departments but not reporting to them
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Agencies/Interactive
Design Shops
✴ Too often reactive and not willing/able to look
more closely at client’s business
✴ Must look behind request to understand the
‘why’; study the client to find value we can deliver
based on ideas they couldn’t have imagined
✴ Better off with smaller starter project to sort out
the ‘why’ & the ‘what’ – show the value of our
expertise rather than load up a huge budget to
counter what we don’t know
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Project:SailTrade-in
Program
✴ North Sails runs a yearly promotion called
‘Trade In/Trade Up’
✴ Involves direct mail, print ads, invoice
stuffers, online promotion, receiving,
fulfillment and accounting (for the rebates)
✴ Marketing, Sales, IT (data), Accounting
(4 departments, 4 budgets, 4 execs)
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Process Flow
Marketing:
Print/online campaign
IT:
Nightly data load
Customer: ship sail to receiving
Check-in notifies acct’ing
Accounting sends check
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Outcomes
✴ Eliminated dozens of hours of labor every week
✴ Cut Rebate time from 8wks to 2wks or less
✴ Took ~3 days to build
✴ Has been reused for several years w/no
re-coding
✴ All it took was some observation and a few
good questions to discover the pain points
and big opportunities for efficiencies
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Sohowdowegetthere?
Education
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Who are the ideal
candidates?
✴ It's not for beginners, other than in concept
✴ Ideal for those who have been working in the
field for a number of years
✴ More suited to designers/design thinkers with
aptitude for technology & business rather than
the other way around. Creativity harder to
teach than technology
✴ Could be Continuing Ed or Grad level
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What to teach
✴ Communication – if we can’t get our ideas across,
they don’t exist
✴ Look at new MBA programs like Rotman - Innovation in
business & design thinking are tremendously relevant to
what we do in the best web projects
✴ Examine/understand how business works: open your
eyes & look across enterprise to see points of
intersection - that's where the opportunities are to use
web technologies to create the greatest, most
innovative solutions
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Wrap it up
✴ We have to define, embrace and espouse the
role of web strategist – which in turn
✴ Leads to needing classes to help develop those
who seek to fill those roles – which in turn
✴ Creates a culture that recognizes value of
strategy & design in making most out of web
technology on any device/platform in the most
useful, usable ways, both within companies and
with the agencies/shops they hire
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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Thank you!
It’s been an honor to speak with you
Jason Pamental | @jpamental
Future of Web Design | NYC 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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Hello.
Awesome
I’m a web professional and I make
web strategy FTW
Been there, done that – buy the t-shirt: http://www.cafepress.com/thinkinginpencil
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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Suggested Reading
✴ The Design of Business (Roger Martin)
✴ Subject to Change (Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon
Schauer, David Verba)
✴ DRiVE (Daniel Pink)
✴ Linchpin (Seth Godin)
✴ The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
✴ MTIV (Hillman Curtis)
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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Web Strategy: What is it and why we need to care

  • 1. .com Web Strategy What It Is & Why We Need to Care Jason Pamental | @jpamental Future of Web Design | NYC 2010 Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 2. .com About me ✴ Jason Pamental Web Strategist, Designer, Technologist ✴ Have worked as strategist, designer, developer and cat-pixel-wrangler since roughly the launch of Netscape 1 ✴ Can be found @jpamental in most places ✴ Post thoughts, work and pics from Instagr.am @ thinkinginpencil.com Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 3. .com Write this down ✴ What we do as web professionals is awesome (and I don’t mean just cool) ✴ The web has the potential to be the single most pervasive & transformative development in the history of business ✴ But only if we learn enough about that organization to see how it can be applied Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 4. .com “I need to hire a web designer” and why this is the worst possible thing to hear from a potential client Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 5. .com “I need to hire a web designer” what they really mean is because when they say Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 6. .com “I need a web solution” Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 7. .com The bad news first ✴ They probably don’t know what’s involved Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 8. .com The bad news first ✴ They probably don’t know what’s involved business analysis discovery stakeholder interviews requirements/needs analysis user research information architecture UX IxD content development prototyping visual designHTML/CSS development testing deployment social media integration Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 9. .com Here’s the good news ✴ They’re asking you for the solution ✴ You’re the expert – be one ✴ Communicate. Educate. Illuminate. ✴ An educated, engaged client is always a better client Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 11. .com Web strategy: a definition Web strategy is about using knowledge of your client’s business & your fresh perspective to find opportunities that transform your client’s business. It’s selecting the right technologies to solve problems & create opportunities by applying them with great design Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 12. .com Web strategy is NOT content strategy ✴ It’s broader than that – it’s about leadership and the growth of our industry ✴ It’s about seeing the whole picture ✴ Look across silos – within your client’s organization and within your own group ✴ Help your client see new possibilities through your lens of design and technology Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 13. .com Head of the tripod ✴ We’re not just designers or developers ✴ We’re consultants (sorry – wasn’t supposed to use profanity) ✴ We must understand our client’s business & see the things they can’t ✴ Use you knowledge of design & intimacy with technology to truly transform ✴ Don’t forget that your client is likely a user too Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 14. .com Um, OK. How? Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 15. .com Get out of your silo ✴ Inspiration and innovation come from looking outward for a better view in ✴ FOWD 2008: Hillman Curtis’ James Victore movie, Transit maps – look everywhere & at everything ✴ Look at new ideas in business education and management (design thinking, motivation, psychology – see bibliography on last slide) Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 16. .com Why we should care ✴ Happier clients = better recommendations and more work ✴ Greater opportunities to do great work ✴ Progression in our field leading to greater acceptance/integration of web design and technology throughout our clients'/ employers' businesses ✴ (leads to more of points one & two) Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 17. .com Who are these mythical creatures? (here’s some examples) Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 18. .com Dan Mall ✴ Senior Designer at Big Spaceship ✴ Technical Editor at A List Apart ✴ Flash guru (sorry, but it fits) ✴ Knows tech backwards & forwards – a comfy pencil in his design kit Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 19. .com Paul Boag ✴ Been designing/ developing sites since he had hair ✴ Is near-terminally curious ✴ Always looks through the eyes of the client & the user Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 20. .com You(ifyouwanttobe) ✴ You have two sides of your brain – engage both ✴ Be curious & act on it ✴ Be a "Mad Scientist" - experiment, try stuff ✴ Learn about business – how it works, how to influence it Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 21. .com Businesses are like people, only bigger but challenges are different for organizations & agencies Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 22. .com Corporate/In-house web teams ✴ Web team usually part of marketing, corporate communications or IT ✴ Usually very little incentive/interest in working across those boundaries (time, cost, executive ego) ✴ Needs to start at the top: CWO & team should focus on customer while serving all departments but not reporting to them Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 23. .com Agencies/Interactive Design Shops ✴ Too often reactive and not willing/able to look more closely at client’s business ✴ Must look behind request to understand the ‘why’; study the client to find value we can deliver based on ideas they couldn’t have imagined ✴ Better off with smaller starter project to sort out the ‘why’ & the ‘what’ – show the value of our expertise rather than load up a huge budget to counter what we don’t know Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 24. .com Project:SailTrade-in Program ✴ North Sails runs a yearly promotion called ‘Trade In/Trade Up’ ✴ Involves direct mail, print ads, invoice stuffers, online promotion, receiving, fulfillment and accounting (for the rebates) ✴ Marketing, Sales, IT (data), Accounting (4 departments, 4 budgets, 4 execs) Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 25. .com Process Flow Marketing: Print/online campaign IT: Nightly data load Customer: ship sail to receiving Check-in notifies acct’ing Accounting sends check Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 26. .com Outcomes ✴ Eliminated dozens of hours of labor every week ✴ Cut Rebate time from 8wks to 2wks or less ✴ Took ~3 days to build ✴ Has been reused for several years w/no re-coding ✴ All it took was some observation and a few good questions to discover the pain points and big opportunities for efficiencies Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 28. .com Who are the ideal candidates? ✴ It's not for beginners, other than in concept ✴ Ideal for those who have been working in the field for a number of years ✴ More suited to designers/design thinkers with aptitude for technology & business rather than the other way around. Creativity harder to teach than technology ✴ Could be Continuing Ed or Grad level Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 29. .com What to teach ✴ Communication – if we can’t get our ideas across, they don’t exist ✴ Look at new MBA programs like Rotman - Innovation in business & design thinking are tremendously relevant to what we do in the best web projects ✴ Examine/understand how business works: open your eyes & look across enterprise to see points of intersection - that's where the opportunities are to use web technologies to create the greatest, most innovative solutions Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 30. .com Wrap it up ✴ We have to define, embrace and espouse the role of web strategist – which in turn ✴ Leads to needing classes to help develop those who seek to fill those roles – which in turn ✴ Creates a culture that recognizes value of strategy & design in making most out of web technology on any device/platform in the most useful, usable ways, both within companies and with the agencies/shops they hire Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 31. .com Thank you! It’s been an honor to speak with you Jason Pamental | @jpamental Future of Web Design | NYC 2010 Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 32. .com Hello. Awesome I’m a web professional and I make web strategy FTW Been there, done that – buy the t-shirt: http://www.cafepress.com/thinkinginpencil Wednesday, November 17, 2010
  • 33. .com Suggested Reading ✴ The Design of Business (Roger Martin) ✴ Subject to Change (Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba) ✴ DRiVE (Daniel Pink) ✴ Linchpin (Seth Godin) ✴ The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell) ✴ MTIV (Hillman Curtis) Wednesday, November 17, 2010