5-Star User Experience: What Going Out To Eat Teaches Us About UX Design

Jimmy Chandler @uxprinciples about.me/jimmychandler www.uxprinciples.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmychandler [email protected]

5-Star User Experience: What Going Out To Eat Teaches Us About UX Design

Presented at: UXCamp DC 2016 #uxcampdc

#5StarUX

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Photo courtesy Maya Jackson

Crunchy Lobster, Spicy Tuna, and Yellowtail and Scallion Rolls, Ichiban Sushi, McLean, VA

Most Important To You

Lobster Ravioli, Fiola, Washington, DC

Food

Service

People

Most Important

• Food quality (tasty)

• Smell and cleanliness

• Cost (value)

• Respect our requests

• Atmosphere/Noise Level

• Easy to get to (parking, transit)

• Accessible

Managing Expectations

Photo courtesy Julie Riederer Nine Types of Lasagna at Tommy Lasagna

First Rule of UXYou cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication.

Paul Watzlawick’s First Axiom of CommunicationSource: http://52weeksofux.com/tagged/week_1

• Decide on a restaurant (research) • Make a reservation (phone, Opentable) • Arrive, ask for a table • Wait in the bar • Seating • Greeting, drinks? • Read menu, listen to specials • Order • Drink, eat, converse • (text/email) • Wait staff asks if everything’s ok

• Restroom, smoke, phone call • Refills • Talk to Manager • Clear plates • Dessert • Request check • Decide on tip, pay • Call cab • Get coats • Exit

Stress Pleasure

PleasureStress

• Decide on a restaurant (research) • Make a reservation (phone, Opentable) • Arrive, ask for a table • Wait in the bar • Seating • Greeting, drinks? • Read menu, listen to specials • Order • Drink, eat, converse • (text/email) • Wait staff asks if everything’s ok

• Restroom, smoke, phone call • Refills • Talk to Manager • Clear plates • Dessert • Request check • Decide on tip, pay • Call cab • Get coats • Exit

• Decide on a restaurant (research) • Make a reservation (phone, Opentable) • Arrive, ask for a table • Wait in the bar • Seating • Greeting, drinks? • Read menu, listen to specials • Order • Drink, eat, converse • (text/email) • Wait staff asks if everything’s ok

• Restroom, smoke, phone call • Refills • Talk to Manager • Clear plates • Dessert • Request check • Decide on tip, pay • Call cab • Get coats • Exit

• Find the Seemless website

• Type in URL, bookmark, search

• Log in or sign up

• Pick from My Order History

• Or bookmarks, favorites or search

• If searching, pick correct address

• Delivery or Pickup?

• Filter

• Name, price, rating, delivery estimate

• Or sort to narrow down search

• Read reviews to help decision

• Ask spouse what they want

• Select restaurant

• Select items

• Tip amount

• Checkout

• Review order

• Submit

• Get confirmation email

• Get food

Seamless

• Find the Seemless website

• Type in URL, bookmark, search

• Log in or sign up

• Pick from My Order History

• Or bookmarks, favorites or search

• If searching, pick correct address

• Delivery or Pickup?

• Filter

• Name, price, rating, delivery estimate

• Or sort to narrow down search

• Read reviews to help decision

• Ask spouse what they want

• Select restaurant

• Select items

• Tip amount

• Checkout

• Review order

• Submit

• Get confirmation email

• Get food

Seamless

Pan-roasted duck breast on French toast with vincotto, Blowfish Sushi, San Francisco

Service

Technical delivery of a product

Pan-roasted duck breast on French toast with vincotto, Blowfish Sushi, San Francisco

Service = usable, useful, and reliable

Pan-roasted duck breast on French toast with vincotto, Blowfish Sushi, San Francisco

Photo courtesy kowarski http://goo.gl/YoQAvC

Salt Selection, Per Se, New York

“To be on a guest’s side requires listening to that person with every sense, and following up with a thoughtful, gracious, appropriate response.”

Dany Meyer, Setting the Table

Photo Courtesy Julie Riederer, Popcorn Soup at wd~50

Hospitality

How the delivery of a product makes its recipients feel.

Photo Courtesy Julie Riederer, Popcorn Soup at wd~50

Photo Courtesy Julie Riederer, Popcorn Soup at wd~50

Hospitality = delightful and engaging

Photo Courtesy Julie Riederer, Popcorn Soup at wd~50

“To be on a guest’s side requires listening to that person with every sense, and following up with a thoughtful, gracious, appropriate response.”

Dany Meyer, Setting the Table

EmpathyThe ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

aka Emotional Empathy

— Indi Young, author of Practical Empathy

Cognitive EmpathyAn intent to understand another person: how they think, what their guiding principles are, what their reactions are…and how those reactions are different from your own

— Indi Young, author of Practical Empathy

InsightThe capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing.

Mental Models“an explanation of someone's thought process about how something works”

Source: Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model

Stress Pleasure

PleasureStress

Source: Is Design Metrically Opposed? https://vimeo.com/138359368

"I'm not here to enter into a relationship. I just want to buy something."

User interview

http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/

Why do we care?

Emotions Help Us Make Decisions

Addressing Mistakes• Awareness

• Acknowledgement

• Apology

• Action

• Additional generosity

Photo Courtesy Nicolette Chandler, Casa Luca, Washington, DC

Best Case: Prevent Errors

If errors happen…

Review

Your product is a series of interactions that cause stress or pleasure

Good service in a restaurant = a usable, useful, and reliable product

Restaurant hospitality = a delightful design

Delightful design fulfills people’s emotional needs

To accomplish this requires empathy and insight

Insight requires data from listening and observing, not inferences

Thank You!

Jimmy Chandler @uxprinciples about.me/jimmychandler www.uxprinciples.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmychandler [email protected]

Photo courtesy Maya Jackson

Related Reading• Aarron Walter, Designing for Emotion

• Whitney Hess, So you wanna be a user experience designer — Step 2: Guiding Principles, http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2009/11/23/so-you-wanna-be-a-user-experience-designer-step-2-guiding-principles/

• Indi Young

• Book: Practical Empathy

• Video: https://vimeo.com/98714873

• Article:http://rosenfeldmedia.com/blogs/mental-models/how-to-wield-empathy/

• Don Norman, Emotional Design

• Stephen P. Anderson, Seductive Interaction Design

• Dana Chisnell

• Beyond Frustration: Three levels of happy design http://uxmag.com/articles/beyond-frustration-three-levels-of-happy-design

• Deconstructing Delight: Pleasure, Flow,& Meaning http://www.slideshare.net/danachisnell/deconstructing-delight

• Jared Spool, The $300 Million Buttonhttp://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/

Recommended UX Books• Abby Covert, How To Make Sense Of Any

Mess: Information Architecture For Everybody

• Don Norman, Design of Everyday Things

• Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think (3rd Edition) and Rocket Surgery Made Easy

• Alan Cooper, About Face 4

• Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler, A Project Guide to UX Design (2nd Edition)

• Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld, Information Architecture For the Web and Beyond (4th Edition)

• Jeff Raskin, The Humane Interface

• Dan Brown, Communicating Design

• Dan Saffer, Microinteractions

• Jennifer Tidwell, Designing Interfaces

• Lidwell, Holden & Butler, Universal Principles of Design

• Quesenbery & Brooks, Storytelling for User Experience

• Goodman, Kuniavsky & Moed, Observing the User Experience

• Halvorson & Rach, Content Strategy for the Web, 2nd Edition

• Horton & Quesenbery, A Web For Everyone

Recommended UX Websites

• http://52weeksofux.com

• http://uxmyths.com/ 

• http://www.lukew.com/ff/

• http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/

• http://aycl.uie.comA library of 230 seminars by experts in all things UX design. $23 per/month

• http://alistapart.com/

• http://uxmag.com/

• http://www.uxbooth.com/

• http://boxesandarrows.com

• http://www.subtraction.com