How to design stuff that matters fast

1st half of Inception Deck

Ariadna Font Llitjós@quicola

Inception Deck

1. Why are we here?2. Scoping list 3. Design the box4. Elevator pitch5. Meet your neighbors 6. Show your solution7. What keeps you up at night?8. Size it up9. What's going to give?

10. What's it going to take?

Inception Deck

1. Why are we here?2. Target users3. Scoping list 4. Design the box5. Elevator pitch6. Meet your neighbors 7. Show your solution 8. What keeps you up at night?9. Size it up

10. What's going to give? 11. What's it going to take?

Today's session

Eewei Chen's session at #Agile2011

Adrian Smith Jonathan Rasmusson aka

Name things you can do in 90 minutes?

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Anyone in #ALE12 want to join me for a short and slow 30-45 minutes run? Will be at Sagrada Familia in 15 mins

Where is the best brewed coffee nearby? Raw Bean? Mill Creek Roasters? Must be dark, not acidic.

Landed in Barcelona for #ALE12. Do people have a plan for tonight?

Two n00bs @ #ALE12. Where is everyone hanging out tonight? Somewhere walking distance from Poble Nou?

Agilistas who arrive in a foreign town away from home, have limited knowledge about where to go and what they can do locally...

The challenge

Design a mobile app to help people new to Barcelona and Catalonia explore all that the area has to offer from a local's

perspective.

Rules

● Be positive!● No right and wrong● Work as a team, share responsibilities● Challenge the status quo● User needs vs Business needs● Focus and keep moving forward (clock is ticking!)● Have fun!● GO!

Form Teams

Design, dev, test, business, other

Tip: get a good mix & form cross functional teams

3 min

Tips: Talk to each other, you are the target audience, delegate tasks (don't all work on the same thing at once), you can go back, redo and add things. Work fast. Do just enough and move on! Relax and have fun

Who am I?

Complete empathy maps. Fill in the various sections creating a persona for the person you are building the app for.

Tips: interview each other, think about the tourists too."See" = motivation (e.g. find a specific item)"Do" = features (e.g. search)10 min

What do I want to do? (what are the features?)Generate, group and prioritize features (story mapping)

Tips: most important user needs with max business value, 20/80 rule. Dot vote to prioritize - ask would 'you' use it?

10 min

Can I use it?

User Journeys, sketch, paper prototype

Tips: "Guerrilla" concept test with each other, me and other attendees to validate assumptions and interactions 25 min

Why should I use it?

Elevator pitch

Tips: a cool brand name and pitch helps match unique selling proposition (USP) to strongest user motivation, needs, desires, gaps

10 min

Elevator Pitch

For [target user/customer] who wants to [motivation, need, desire], the [product name] is a [market category] that [key benefit, compelling reason to buy] by [USP] different from [competitors]

Elevator Pitch - En poques paraules

Per a [client/usuari ideal] que vol [motivació, necessitat, desig], el/la [nom del producte] és un [categoria del producte/mercat] que [benefici clau] mitjançant [diferenciació principal, proposta de venta única] a diferència de [competència]

Presentations

prep & present

Tips: Tell a good story. Role play? Sell your product and brand.Back it up with research and validation.

20 min

Next?

More ideationUsability testHigher fidelity HTML prototype Graphic designWrite storiesEstimatePrioritize (BV, UV, ROI)Create roadmap fro MVPDeliver it!

What did we achieve? Was it agile enough?Roles and ResponsabilitiesCollaborative & inclusiveChallenge the status quoTime boxed and rapidIterative and feedback drivenUser needs matched to business valueShared common visionPrioritized features"testable" lo-fi prototypePresented ideasInitial project scope

Less time to think too muchSolved problem quickly Low riskOk to fail, just fail forwards!Fun?

Inception Deck

1. Why are we here?2. Scoping list 3. Design the box4. Elevator pitch5. Meet your neighbors 6. Show your solution7. What keeps you up at night?8. Size it up9. What's going to give?

10. What's it going to take?

Inception Deck

1. Why are we here?2. Target users3. Scoping list 4. Design the box5. Elevator pitch6. Meet your neighbors 7. Show your solution 8. What keeps you up at night?9. Size it up

10. What's going to give? 11. What's it going to take?

Today's session

Inception Deck

1. Why are we here?2. Target users3. Scoping list 4. Design the box5. Elevator pitch6. Meet your neighbors 7. Show your solution 8. What keeps you up at night?9. Size it up

10. What's going to give?11. What's it going to take?

Who am I? / Persona

What do I want to do?

Can I use it?Elevator Pitch

Inception Deck

1. Why are we here?2. Target users3. Scoping list 4. Design the box5. Elevator pitch6. Meet your neighbors - project community7. Show your solution - technical architecture8. What keeps you up at night? - important risks9. Size it up (3, 6, 9 months?)

10. What's going to give? - tradeoff sliders11. What's it going to take? - time & cost

Thanks!

@quicola

ariadneta@gmail.com