5. Manning Wins Top Award for Women in Technology
Leadership
Entrepreneur of the Year and CEO of Reading Room, Margaret Manning has triumphed at the Best CIO Awards in
Singapore, taking home the top prize for Women in Leadership.
13. Zappos
A service company that happens to sell shoes
• Free shipping both ways
• 365-day return policy
• Fast fulfilment, expedited delivery
• 24/7 1-800 number on every page
• Fast, friendly & expert customer service
43. Keep swimming
Basic expectations = hygiene factors. Perform poorly
on these and you suffer.
Performance payoffs = standard factors. The more you
do, the more guests appreciate it.
Excitement generators = wow factors. This is what will
make you memorable.
Over time, all factors deteriorate as they become
commonplace. You have to keep raising the bar.
47. Has personal significance
Memorable, worth sharing
Adapted from Stephen P. Anderson / poetpainter.com
Easy to use, works like I think
Can be used without difficulty
Available and accurate
Does what I need
Hard to cross!
48. How to make a great user experience
1 Find out what to improve
2 Learn about your customers
3 Find out about touchpoints
4 Design the improved experience
5 Prototype, test, repeat
113. Gamification?
Adding game mechanics like
Scores & Levels
Achievements / badges / reward systems
Leader boards
to non-game activities to influence people to
complete tasks they would otherwise not.
134. How to make a great user experience
1 Find out what to improve
2 Learn about your customers
3 Find out about touchpoints
4 Design the improved experience
5 Prototype, test, repeat
We can look at experiences with products and services like this…
Listen to them
Some will rant
Some will rave
We can use market research
We can follow what people are saying online
We can listen to them on social media
We can see what they do on our website through goal conversion tracking
We can be our own customer
We can go mystery shopping.
Reading Room directors applied for jobs using fake identities and cvs to test our recruitment procedures.
User research does not mean asking people what they want
As Henry Ford, creator of the Model T, which popularised cars and made them available to almost everyone, famously said:
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse”
What he meant to say is that people’s imaginations are bound by what they already know, Their current situation and environment shape their expectation.
Alternatively, they might not ask for a faster horse, but let their imaginations go crazy and ask for the equivalent of a unicorn.
Or they may simply not know what they want.
It becomes apparent that asking people for a solution is not a good idea.
So what is the way to innovation through user research then?
Rather than asking users for solutions.
We consider the audience for your product, service, website or app
But the audiences go beyond the obvious, beyond current and potential customers.
We look at all audiences. Regulators, onlookers, media, the competition, and so on
So how do we segment your audiences?
A tempting approach is to use demographics.
You know, 25-34 year old females in urban areas.
In fact, we don’t care much about demographics.
For research leading to innovation, we need to go beyond demographic segments and look at what’s known as psychographics.
For some of it, we can rely on existing research, like Forrester’s social psychographics.
To innovate for people you need to understand people
We care mostly about how people behave.
Behavioural data is always preferable to attitudinal data.
Personas
Develop scenarios and storyboards for how people live, work, and interact.
Use techniques like brainstorming…
…mind mapping…
…affinity diagramming…
…play-acting…
…or just good old-fashioned thinking hard about it