| Art Direction | 2 |
| Demonstration of Research | 10 |
| Demonstration of Process | 5 |
| Syntax/Error Checking | 3 |
| Delivery/Audience Engagement | 5 |
| Total: | 25 |
“No one reads reports!”
“PowerPoint must die!”
“Conveying user research findings so people can understand them, believe them, and know how to act on your recommendations can be challenging.”
We’ve all read monotonous reports and struggled to remain awake during boring presentations, but must all deliverables be interminably dull? Conveying user research findings so people can understand them, believe them, and know how to act on your recommendations can be challenging. And providing enough detail without boring your audience is a difficult balance. But there are some best practices in communicating user research findings that can make them more effective—and even entertaining.
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2012/02/communicating-user-research-findings.php
Watch this video if you want to improve your presentations.
Aaron Weyenberg is the master of slide decks. Our UX Lead creates Keynote presentations that are both slick and charming—the kind that pull you in and keep you captivated, but in an understated way that helps you focus on what’s actually being said. He does this for his own presentations and for lots of other folks in the office. Yes, his coworkers ask him to design their slides, because he’s just that good.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9p2mxvvrw06h7g2/CJM-Letter.pdf?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0oj0n2d7qe9p1l/SMITH%20-%20UX%20Packet.pdf?dl=0
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fYvMVQDgGlTIVat8__dKUKhYgVo6QRocThTgPuO0B5I
A scenario is a “day in the life of” one of your personas. It should include both the persona’s daily working tasks as well as how your app or website fits into their lives.
Writing a scenario is as simple as taking your research and extrapolating from it to document the tasks that your persona’s perform when using your product.
http://www.uxforthemasses.com/scenario-mapping/
https://uxthink.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/using_scenarios/
http://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/scenarios.html
http://www.uiaccess.com/accessucd/scenarios_eg.html
A persona is a fictitious identity used to represent one of the user groups for who you are designing. They are created by taking both qualitative and quantitative data from; analytics, surveys, interviews user testing and other research techniques that the UX designer uses to craft a sketch of an ideal user.
A good persona needs a name, photo, realistic and research based motivations and goals, and a backstory rooted in reality.
http://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/personas.html
http://www.sitepoint.com/create-data-backed-personas/
http://uxmastery.com/create-ux-personas/
http://www.ux-lady.com/introduction-to-user-personas/
http://www.uiaccess.com/accessucd/personas_eg.html
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