ux for developers. say what?!

UX for DevelopersSAY WHAT?!

Agnieszka Naplocha @aganaplocha / #ux4dev

Confitura 2015

Who am I?

Being on both side of the fence: UX vs Development

@aganaplocha

#ux4devs #confitura

Adobe, Visual Design & Front-end Development

Who are you?

Front-end or Back-end?

Start-up or big company?

Have you ever worked with UX designers?

Knowing more about UI design will make you a better developer, but that doesn’t mean you should be responsible for UI design.

Designer is stuck

Think product, not features. 

Code is executed on a machine, but the interaction design is executed on a human.

UX != UI

The UX Process

Concept

Research Prototyping

Tests

Creative Workshops

Organized at the very beginning

Participatory design

Meet people from the team

Get insight into the project’s domain

Engage in the project

Sketching

Paper prototypes

Simple, easy & quick

Picture means more than words

Card Sorting

When you are lost in the navigation

Works for grouping and categorizing the content

Designer Daily

Having insight into design progress

Possibility to discuss solution

Be more familiar with the design process

Better communication

The new product is coming

How users see it

Guerrilla’s Test

Research-led design is the holy grail of design

Test your design quickly and cheaply

Get instant feedback

You need developers to see users using their application and any difficulties users have.

Jeff Atwood, Co-founder of Stack Overflow

So three pieces of advice: Have developers observe actual users. Have them share help desk duties. Buy everybody a copy of 'Don’t Make Me Think'. Jeff Atwood, Co-founder of Stack Overflow

You can make it!

Step out of your comfort zone Broaden your horizon Get insight into design process Contribute

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Thank you! Questions?

@aganaplocha

#ux4devs #confitura