UX Design Speakers at Google

UX Design Speakers at Google:

Luke Worbeleski, Senior Principal Designer Yahoo
Sean Kane, Director User Interface, Netflix
Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer, Google

This was a great event where the three discussed panel style elements of User Experience design for 2.0.

Some of the key points I found Interesting were.

1. Google rolls out features to users over time, so they are not bombarded with information right up front. it's a common mistake of web designers and even product designers as well, stuff as many features into one package as possible. In this day and age there is way too much information being bombarded at us at 100 miles and hour, and the question becomes how do we sort through it? Services where the UI is designed to get things done with the minimal ammount of features is what consumers are choosing now. This segways into my next point about perceived time and effectiveness.

2. A study was done to measure the effect of speed vs. satisfaction of a website, what they found was that there was no correlation between speed and Satisfaction, but rather the users were satisfied when their desired task was accomplished EASILY with speed factors falling a distant sec.

3. Finally they talked about the ineffectiveness of surveying people on user interface models. they will often say one thing and do another. They thought that observation and live studies were the best methods of evaluating a user experience study.

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