user experience lessons learned from a pickup artist
DESCRIPTION
Cross-references Pickup Artist techniques with analogues in User Experience Design. The PUA movement has gotten a lot of attention in recent years with the publishing of Neil Strauss’s The Game and the VH1 reality show The Pickup Artist. This presentation conflates some ideas presented in Neil Strauss’s book with guidelines of user experience.TRANSCRIPT
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User Experience Lessons Learned
from a Pickup ArtistPresented by: Richard Bourgault
@AlreadyRich
Slides & Content by: Brie Anne Demkiw - @breezyskiesRichard Bourgault - @AlreadyRich
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What is UX?
Credit: Information Architects Inc.
Technology
Corporate Communications
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Know Your Target
"Tattoo on the lower back. Might as well be a bullseye."
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Know Your Target
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Understand & Use the Context
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Understand & Use the Context
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Test Early & Often
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Test Early & Often
Photo Credit: Wireframes Magazine
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Use Failure as a Tool
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Use Failure as a Tool
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“Peacocking”
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“Peacocking”
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Social Proof“Pivot”
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Social Proof
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Persuasion Techniques:Scarcity & Time Constraints
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Persuasion Techniques:Scarcity & Time Constraints
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Trivialities Are NOT Trivial
“Your eyes are beautiful… what color are they naturally?”
Confidence :Congruency between actions
and words
“NEG”
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Trivialities Are NOT Trivial
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For More Information...
• Presenter: @AlreadyRich
• Slides & Content: @breezyskies, @AlreadyRich
• Realskies UX Engineering: @Realskies or www.realskies.com