Designing UI flows in a notebook make me wish I owned an iPad Pro + Pencil.
※ Permalink for post published on date_to_rfc822As I await an invitation to join Micro.blog, let’s see if I can use FeedPress to push these posts to Twitter.
※ Permalink for post published on date_to_rfc822Spent some time this evening cleaning things up around the site. With the addition of the microblog, I thought I should create separate feeds to cater to your needs. Have a look and subscribe.
※ Permalink for post published on date_to_rfc822Looks like the quotes might not be necessary after all.
※ Permalink for post published on date_to_rfc822Trying to wrap the commit message in single quotes rather than URL encoding the spaces in the message. Let’s see if that works.
※ Permalink for post published on date_to_rfc822Hmm. Seems Working Copy is leaving the encoded characters from the encoded X-Callback URL in the commit message. Wonder if there’s a solution for that…
※ Permalink for post published on date_to_rfc822While it takes a bit longer to post one of these than it takes to tweet, I’m pretty proud to have found a way to make this work. Next up: posting full blog posts from Editorial.
※ Permalink for post published on date_to_rfc822If you are reading this, I just managed to use Drafts, Workflow, and Working Copy to post to my Jekyll site from my iPhone.
※ Permalink for post published on date_to_rfc822I’ve been interested in microblogging since the early days of Twitter. After seeing my friend Ben using the new Micro.blog service created by Manton Reece, I became enthralled by the idea of adding a microblog (back?) to my site. I’m still awaiting my invitation to the Micro.blog network, but you can see these micro-posts in my JSON and RSS feeds.
※ Permalink for post published on date_to_rfc822Thank you to everyone who attended the first ever Indonesian product design livestream hosted by Viral Foundry. It was an honour to share with you the lessons I’ve learned about improving products through user testing. I hope each of you took something away that you’ll be able to apply to your own craft.
I do apologize for my lack of visual slides. In the past, I’ve found slides to be a hindrance to my style of presentation. However, some of the feedback I received from Kenny following the presentation indicated that I wasn’t fully considerate of the language barriers between us. Seeing the beautiful slide deck put together by Dany drove home just how foolish I was to not have my own. Won’t be making that mistake again.
As promised during the presentation, I want to share with you some notes and links from my talk. If you were an attendee and see that I’ve missed something, please hit me up on Twitter and let me know.
Books
- Design Sprint by Richard Banfield, C. Todd Lombardo, Trace Wax
- Sprint by Jake Knapp
- Design is a Job by Mike Monteiro
- Thoughtbot’s Guide to Product Design Sprints1
- Intercom on Jobs to be Done
Articles
- Quick and dirty method to observe and capture user tests
- Considerations for user testing in Uganda
- Why You Only Need To Test with 5 Users by Jakob Neilsen
- Google Ventures’ Design Sprint Page
- Design Sprints as a Service by Black Pixel
- Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to be Done” by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan
- 13 Ways Designers Screw Up Client Presentations by Mike Monteiro
Tools
I hope I was able to convey just how great of an impact employing user testing can have on both the usability and viability of your product. My thanks to Kenny and the whole Viral Foundry team for hosting the event.
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Not really a “book”, but this site is so jam-packed with useful information about running a design sprint, I had to include it. In fact, this guide helped me understand what improvements needed to be made following my first design sprint. ↩