"How do you know this idea is going to work?" This question tumbles even the most seasoned designers. Businesses are recognizing the importance of design and the competitive advantage that a design-led approach offers. Designers are moving up the corporate ranks and we're now beginning to see titles like "Design Strategist," "Chief Creative Officer" and "Chief Design Officer" take hold within organizations. As designers, the decisions that we are now making carry much more weight and inherently, more risk, to the companies we serve. This presentation proposes 3 questions that designers can ask to identify measurement of success early in the creative processes. It will explore methods to develop measurements that will enable designers to make faster decisions, create better alignment with businesses, and have more courage to push creative boundaries in our work.
12. Between Pixel-Pushing &
Disrupting Industries
Strategy Execution
IV I
III II
Crafting Aesthetics
To provoke surprises
and human desires.
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13. Between Pixel-Pushing &
Disrupting Industries
Strategy Execution
IV I
III II
Crafting Strategy Crafting Aesthetics
To determine what to make To provoke surprises
over short + long term. and human desires.
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26. Measurement of Success is the
interface between our disruptive
ideas & the not-so-well-designed
systems that we work within.
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34. “Instagram is ... a simple
photo-sharing tool that
allows you to snap pictures
and easily post them to your
Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr,
and Flickr...”
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41. Summary
Why does this service exist?
How does success look like to you? How will
we validate it?
Are we optimizing for an existing behavior, or
creating new ones?
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42. Is LeanUX + Metrics Based
Design a solution?
• LeanUX has gained momentum and has a lot of
potential, but I don’t think culturally we have
caught up to it yet.
• Local Maxima? Google’s 41 Shades of Blue?
Ultimately this is not a matter of process,
it is a matter of mind-set.
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