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The Elephant and the Dassie a tale of evolution and kinship
Kerry-Anne Gilowey
@kerry_anne
UX Craft Conference Cape Town 4 October 2014
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PROLOGUE:
The family photo album
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www.worldwildwebb.tumblr.com
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MADAGASCAR
ANTANANARIVO
SOUTHAFRICA
PRETORIA
LESOTHO
MASERU SWAZILAND
MBABANE
MAPUTO
MOZAMBIQUE
BOTSWANA
GABORONE
NAMIBIA
WINDHOEK
ANGOLA
LUANDA
DEMOCRATICREPUBLIC
OF THE CONGO
KINSHASA
ZAMBIA
LUSAKA
TANZANIADAR ES SALAAM
UGANDA
KAMPALA
NAIROBI
BUJUMBURA
KENYA
BURUNDI
KIGALI
RWANDA
MALAWI
LILONGWE
ZIMBABWE
HARARE
KHARTOUM
ASMARA
SOMALIA
MOGADISHU
ETHIOPIA
ADDISABABA
DJIBOUTI
DJIBOUTI
BAMAKONIAMEY
N’DJAMENA
CENTRALAFRICAN REPUBLIC
BANGUI
NIGERIA
ABUJA
BENIN
PORTO-NOVO
TOGO
LOMÉACCRA
GHANA
BURKINAFASO
OUAGADOUGOU
SENEGAL
DAKARTHE GAMBIA
BANJUL
GUINEA-BISSAU
SIERRA LEONEFREETOWN
MONROVIA
LIBERIACÔTE
D'IVOIRE
YAMOUSSOUKRO CAMEROON
YAOUNDÉ
EQUATORIALGUINEA
MALABO
GABONLIBREVILLE REP.
OF THE CONGO
BRAZZAVILLE
CONAKRY
BISSAU GUINEA
SOUTHSUDAN
JUBA
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Why are they related?
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Image credit: www.uncyclopedia.wikia.com
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That’s evolution,
baby!
Pearl Jam, Do the Evolution
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CHAPTER 1:
Crossing disciplines
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Hi! Hello!
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I am anIndependent Content Strategy
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Our work is a strange beast
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...a strange, fuzzy beast.
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Work used to BE SIMPLER.
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It was TANGIBLE.
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It had CLEAR EDGES.
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There was less SCOPE CREEP.
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BUTCHERBAKER
CANDLESTICK-MAKER
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How about us?
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Content Strategist
Information Architect
User Researcher
UX Designer
Experience Designer
Interaction Designer
UX Strategist
UI DeveloperProduct Manager
UX Analyst
Visual Designer
UI Designer
Web Designer
Web Developer
Front-End Developer
UI EngineerUX Architect
Product Designer
Usability Practitioner
Information Designer
Content Architect
Digital Strategist
Usability Analyst
Web Analyst
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Content Strategist
Information Architect
User Researcher
UX Designer
Experience Designer
Interaction Designer
UX Strategist
UI DeveloperProduct Manager
UX Analyst
Visual Designer
UI Designer
Web Designer
Web Developer
Front-End Developer
UI EngineerUX Architect
Product Designer
Usability Practitioner
Information Designer
Content Architect
Digital Strategist
Usability Analyst
Web Analyst
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The digital irony
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dig-i-tal (adj.)/ˈdijitl/
(of signals or data) expressed as series of the digits 0 and 1
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Digital characteristics
Discrete UnambiguousOn or off
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an-a-log (adj.)/ˈanlˌôg/
relating to or using signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity
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Analog characteristics
Continuous AmorphousSpectrum
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Which sounds more like digital design and UX work?
Discrete UnambiguousOn or off
Continuous AmorphousSpectrum
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The advent of digital has produced fuzziness and overlap.
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Disciplines now overlap in surprising ways, thanks to
digital evolution.
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The Pandora Music Genome Project
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CHAPTER 2:
Team dynamics
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Product Manager
Content Strategist
SEO Specialist
UI Designer
Project Manager
Community Manager
Technical Architect
Usability Specialist
Interaction Designer
Web Developer
Information Architect
Design Director
Business Analyst
User Researcher
Front-end Developer
Web Editor
CopywriterOUR
TEAM
Technical Writer
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SEO Specialist
UI Designer
Community Manager
Interaction Designer
Web Developer
OUR TEAM
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Product Manager
UI Designer
Interaction Designer
User Researcher
Front-end Developer
OUR TEAM
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UI Designer
Project Manager
Technical Architect
Usability Specialist Information
Architect
Business Analyst
OUR TEAM
Technical Writer
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Product Manager
Content Strategist
Technical Architect
Interaction Designer
Design Director
Business Analyst
User Researcher
Front-end Developer
CopywriterOUR
TEAM
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YOU ARE
HERE
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YOU ARE
HERE
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YOU ARE
HERE
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YOU ARE
HERE
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YOU ARE
HERE
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YOU ARE
HERE
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YOU ARE
HERE
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YOU ARE
HERE
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You might also needto fill more roles.
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BROADER knowledge=
GREATER team understanding
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Lenses > Roles
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Your lens affects
what you notice,
and how you see
the world.
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Processed with Kazunori Asada’s simulator
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Processed with Kazunori Asada’s simulator
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“... a content strategist’s heart...”
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We can use each other’s tools
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Customer journey maps for discovering content gaps
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User interview techniques for creating better content
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Care more about one another’s work.
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CHAPTER 3:
Disintegrating silos
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Vertical edges are dissolving
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Diagram byRichard Ingram@richardjingram
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Diagram byRichard Ingram@richardjingram
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Content used to belong exclusively to the Marketing
department.
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(Copywriting, like movies, used to be even worse.)
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CONTENT
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Marketing copy Forms Interface copy
Intranet content
Terms of
serviceCall centre
scripts
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But let’s move out a few paces.
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This is not your grandfather’s website.
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Point of saleOutdoor club
Legal contract
Customer care platform
Financial management
portal
Advice column
Travel agency
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It’s no longer about the structure of your organisation.
It’s about your customer’s cross-channel journey.
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Silos are becoming permeable
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Design team Stakeholders
!
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Collaborators
☺
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Say NO to the Big Reveal.
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Sara Wachter-BoettcherContent Strategy Consultant
Editor in Chief at A List Apart
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CHAPTER 4:
The local community
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Sharing our toys
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We need more of that, right here.
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community of practice (noun)
a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly
–Etienne Wenger
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ATTENDSHARESPEAK
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But there’s more!
Grab coffee with another [insert your job role here]
Grab coffee with a [insert different job role here]
Chat with other UX people on SkypeStart a Slack group to discuss workGet a small dinner group together to chat about a niche topicOrganise a weekend away to talk shop
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CHAPTER 5:
UXers without borders
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Yes, we live in a faraway land.
One bajillion miles
Cuh-razy far
Uncountable distances
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But... you know...
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Let’s not isolate ourselves.
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There’s no reason for usto lag behind anymore.
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Culture is not bound by geography.
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Responsive design
Accessibility
Mobile UX
Agile methodologyBusiness constraints
User research
Web form designTask analysis
Prototyping
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Books, magazine sites, blogs, slide decks,
Twitter feeds
Read widely!
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Reading listReading list
UX Boothwww.uxbooth.com
Smashing Magazinewww.smashingmagazine.com
New Thinkingwww.gerrymcgovern.com/new-thinking
Rosenfeld Blogswww.rosenfeldmedia.com/blogs
The Pastry Boxwww.the-pastry-box-project.net
A List Apartwww.alistapart.com
Responsive Web Designwww.responsivewebdesign.com/podcast
User Interface Engineeringwww.uie.com/brainsparks
Web Standards Sherpawww.webstandardssherpa.com
Luke Wroblewski’s Writingswww.lukew.com/ff
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@cennydd
@jmspool
@monteiro
@karenmcgrane
@Abby_the_IA
@cwodtke
@beep
@halvorson
@jcolman
@lukew
@seriouspony
@zeldman
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Travel!
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December 2009
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April 2010
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A few conference ideasIA Summitwww.iasummit.org
Webstockwww.webstock.org.nz
User Interface 19www.ui19.uie.com
Web Directionswww.webdirections.org
An Event Apartwww.aneventapart.com
Midwest UXwww.midwestux.com
Smashing Conferencewww.smashingconf.com
Confabwww.confabevents.com
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Find your people.
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EPILOGUE:
We’re all elephants and dassies
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The evolution of our work and environment has produced new
relationships.
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ACROSS VERTICALS
BETWEEN DISCIPLINES
ACROSS BORDERS
WITHIN TEAMS
IN OUR LOCAL
COMMUNITY
Relationships
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Embrace them
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This thing only goes if we collaborate.
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Erika HallCo-founder of Mule Design
Author of “Just Enough Research”
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The end product isn’t great content; it’s a great THING.
Erika HallCo-founder of Mule Design
Author of “Just Enough Research”
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Thanks for listening!
Kerry-Anne [email protected]
http://augustsun.co.zahttp://about.me/kerryanne
@kerry_anne