ux design presentation by gerard roy digital creativity

UX Design

Gerard Roy

g@gerardr.com

Great UX Design

1 •Intuitive

2 •Organizes Data

3 •Specializes

Intuitive

• Intuitive => Don’t have to think

• Best Instructions = No Instructions

– Instagram

– Mint.com

Instagram

• Create great looking pictures… simply

– 1 button filters

• Share with others… simply

– Other options

Mint.com

Organizing Data

• Provide a lot of info in an Easy to Digest Form

– Hipmunk

– Weathery

– Foodspotting

– Recollect.fm

Hipmunk

• Orbitz, Priceline

• “Agony” Category

Weathery

• Beautiful

• Simple

• Intuitive

• Informative

• Fun

• Creative

FoodSpotting

• Maps

• Pictures

• Button

hierarchy

Recollect.fm

• Twitter Song Recommendations

• More “humanly” to visualize info

Specialize

• Do one thing and people think you do it really well

– Yahoo vs Google

Specialized?

Allow yourself to be inspired

• Many Great Websites

– Dribbble.com

– Creattica.com

– DesignMoo.com

– Awwwards.com

Get Feedback

• http://forrst.com/

General Advice

• If you have an idea – Just Try It

• Get Feedback

• Iterate

• Repeat