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Employ established, industry-standard user-centered design (UCD) techniques to:
• Understand users’ goals and objectives• Research, observe, and interview users to analyze and prioritize their needs • Plan and design high-quality experiences that enable user and business success• Apply a philosophy of continuous improvement to rapid design iterations
Prioritize smaller initial investments to yield user and business insights that guide long-term user experience implementation and management strategy
A UCD Approach
Users
User-Centered Design TeamInformation Architects, Visual Designers, Web Developers,
Technical Writers
Architects, Engineers
“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
User personas and scenarios aggregate key findings of user research to describe “real people” and how they will use the future application. Instead of mere system abstractions, they describe complex functionality in a way both system developers and client stakeholders can understand.
People-Based Design
Personas
Fictionalized representations of real user groups upon which application design decisions can be based, personas include descriptions of users’ goals, pressures and pain points, work environment, critical requirements of the site, key opportunities to address those requirements, and other contextual information.
Scenarios
A critical first step in translating personas into detailed design insight, scenarios demonstrate key tasks that target users need to perform when interacting with the system, and describe at a high level how the system will help users accomplish those tasks.
If you go to a fine French restaurant, you park your car, go inside, and order food from a human being who brings the food to you. If you go to McDonald's, you park your car, go inside, and order food from a human being who brings the food to you.
The dining experience, however, is vastly different. The quality of food also plays a factor. But even if both restaurants served the same fare, it is the overall experience that will ultimately satisfy users and make the experience a pleasurable one.
With the integration of the various business divisions into one digital portal, Icon Medialab helped the customer provide a wide range of services to assist healthcare professionals in better serving patients. These services include training, education, consulting and access to clinical protocols, as well as a guide to products that helps healthcare professionals accomplish their clinical and business goals.
The uniqueness of this special B-to-B e-commerce site was marked by state-of-the art information service; a wide range of clinical product specification; and easy support, pricing and ordering. Icon Medialab would support the client's existing brand strategy by focusing strongly on the users as well as clear usability.
Cooperation• Speed of reaction from GGs• Multiple offices of multiple companies
“The problem with ‘quick and dirty,’…is that ‘dirty’ is remembered long after ‘quick’ is forgotten.”___Steve McConnell, Software Project Survival Guide
“I still hear far too much dogmatism about what people really ‘want,’ what they ‘believe,’ or how they ‘really’ behave, but I see very little data. It doesn’t take much data....[Jakob Nielsen says that] three to five people will give you enough for most purposes. But they need to be real people,
doing real activities. Don’t speculate. Don’t argue. Observe.”___Don Norman, “Affordance, Conventions, and Design” interactions
Create archetypes of people to achieve understanding for—• Interaction design• Concept development• Visual design• Goal-reaching
Use these profiles to— • Achieve agreement on who is using the site• Create use case model survey (high-level use cases)• Achieve agreement on the use case model survey• Create information architecture that leads to navigation design• Ensure throughout development that all features meet key goals of
Attributes & Attitudes• Highly educated and focused• Focused on own specialty• Technically aware• High visual analysis capacity• Technical, not personal focus• Self-centered, self-assured• Pragmatic• Social skills not primary focus—little
continual patient contact• Competitive• Short attention span
Information Needs & eSelling Impact• Interested in downloadables for patients• Long hours mean little time for browsing• Chat/interactive interesting as a
recommendation for patients, not for self-education
• Ongoing professional development needed
• Clinical & imaging practices• Product information concentrating on
Attributes & Attitudes• Mostly female• High social & interpersonal skills—
first contact with patient• Technically oriented• Product specialist—learn about new
methods• Ease of use key• Attention to detail• Fast workflow key• Automated processes important• Lots of standing• Work according to schedules• Rarely has own workspace other
Attributes & Attitudes• Mostly male, technical/ engineering background• Interfaces with service entities• Follows documentation and regulatory documents• Rare patient contact• Generates statistics and analysis for equipment lifecycle history
Information Needs & eSelling Impact• New equipment, options, upgrade news• Information on recalls and technical issues (FAQs)• Contact information
Attributes & Attitudes• Wide background, usually university educated• Often sales or marketing background/experience• Interfaces with service entities on lifecycle issues, specialists and
technologists during product evaluation, and financialists during sales negotiations
Information Needs & eSelling Impact• Product and clinical information to provide to customers• Regulated, scheduled life leaves little time for browsing and
experiential learning• Contact information updated• Tools to help shorten sales or demo lifecycle
Attributes & Attitudes• Strong interpersonal skills• Physician concerned about patient‘s experience with specialists• Longer-term doctor-patient relationship
Information Needs & eSelling Impact• Clinical information to provide to patients, who need
understandable information in stressful situations• Secondary, browsing interest in other fields • Information about health care administration and costs• Limited overall Internet experience, ability, and connection.
Therefore, information needs to be directed, easy to access, and clear.