10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design

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Presentation first delivered at the 2010 Bessemer Cloud Conference introducing design concepts for non-designers, simple tactics to improve existing products, and strategies for success in product/experience design moving forward. Thank you Dustin Curtis, Kim Goodwin, Jared Spool, Marc Gobé, Indi Young, Steve Krug, Robert Hoekman, Jr., Seth Godin, and Jesse James Garrett for content and inspiration.

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Jason PutortiBessemer Venture Partners

Follow me @putorti

10 things you need to know about design

#ux10@putorti

Design can change businesses

Design is more than pretty pictures

Talks benefits not features

Thinks in flows not screens

Doesn’t make the user think

Starts with a great story

Uses design as a lever

Gets out of the office

Has a bible

Repeats & refines

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What is design?

A Great Design

Process

Great Design

Design can change businesses.

1What is design?

I need your bank passwords.Trust me.

P O W E R E D b y S E R V I C E™

I’m on twitter.

You should follow me on twitter here.

+173% increasein clicks

Design is more than pretty pictures

2What is design?

Design thinkingThe essential ability to combine empathy, creativity and rationality to meet user needs and drive business success.

User experienceHow your product works in the real world, or how a person feels about using your product.

‣ Going through the sign up flow

‣ Completing a task in the product

‣ Error message in the product

Customer experienceThe sum of all interactions a customer has with your company, positive, or negative.

‣ Going through the sign up flow

‣ Completing a task in the product

‣ Error message in the product

‣ Viewing your home page

‣ Reading a marketing email

‣ Dealing with customer service

‣ Going through the sign up flow +5

‣ Completing a task in the product +10

‣ Error message in the product -5

‣ Viewing your home page +1

‣ Reading a marketing email -10

‣ Dealing with customer service -5

Your brand is how customers feel about

you

Talks benefits not features

3Great design...

Understand your money

20 colorful configurable charts and

graphs

vs

Remove your personal data from the web

Comprehensive fuzzy-matching

algorithm locates your records

vs

Thinks in flows not screens

4Great design...

Log In

1. User enters email address into email field.

2. User enters password into password field.

3. User clicks Log In button.

4. System validates login information. If okay, User is taken to Overview page.

Take note of task flows in your product

Doesn’t make the user think

5Great design...

ObviousRequiresThought

“Is that a button?”Click!

“Is this what I want? Should

I keep looking?”Click!

Interaction Scale

Make it obvious what’s clickable.

Or make it discoverable.

People don’t read,they scan

Minimize noise

Omit needless words

Users pick the first reasonable option.

Starts with a great story

6A great design process...

“Does everyone on your team know what the experience will be like

interacting with your offerings five years from now?”

JARED SPOOL

“How would it work if it were human?”

KIM GOODWIN

“How would it work if it were magic?”

KIM GOODWIN

“Because everyone on the team has the same vision, they are all on the

same page for what it takes to succeed.”

JARED SPOOL

Uses design as a lever

7A great design process...

M A R K E T I N G

“The best marketing tool you can have is a well-designed application.”

B U S I N E S S D E V E L O P M E N T

Align your revenue with valuable and legitimate user tasks.

B R A N D

Negative interactions drive negative social media.

M A R K E T I N G + P R

“No amount of money can buy the media to fix a boring product.”

Gets the teamout of the office

8A great design process...

“In the last six weeks, have your team members spent at least two hours

watching people experience your product or service?”

Has a bible

9A great design process...

Trust & Credibility

Startup brand czar

Large company style guide

Repeats & Refines

10A great design process...

Allot product cycles to improvement

“In the last six weeks, have you held a celebration of a recently introduced

design problem?”

Design can change businesses

Design is more than pretty pictures

Talks benefits not features

Thinks in flows not screens

Doesn’t make the user think

Starts with a great story

Uses design as a lever

Gets out of the office

Has a bible

Repeats & refines

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

What is design?

A Great Design

Process

Great Design

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