February 15, 2019

The UX of Fortnite Talk by Celia Hodent, PhD

Celia is Director of UX at Epic Games (e.g. Fortnite) Book: the Gamer’s Brain   Keep in mind the limitations of the brain when designing Vision and perception seems natural but it is subjective In 2103 they tested an icon with triangles over a bar for traps, but the users didn’t think it was traps but that it was ammo so they changed it to an icon like a bear trap The forgetting curve Ebbinghaus, 1885, people forget 70% of content from one day to the next Our memory is fallible, do you remember “The Thinker” by Rodin, which arms are rested on which leg? They reduced memory load by a…

November 15, 2018

How Gerber used a Refined CX as Key Pillar of its Brand Transformation

My notes on the talk at the DMWF conference By Claudia Ciciliano, Director, Customer Engagement We looked at our competitors in category but also out of category, we looked at Babycenter and others Then plotted the services along a 2 x 2 looking at support services and transactional services They found an opportunity / differentiator to bring one to one experience to the table Developed the Dotti Service which is a text-based nutrition / sleep service, not a bot, manned by a team of 40 specialists Dotti is available for no fee and you don’t have to use Gerber formula to use the service The users volunteer their data in…

January 3, 2017

The Healthcare Service Design Rollercoaster

Since 2011 I’ve wanted to take on a healthcare service design project and last year I finally made it happen. We’re nearly at the end of a year long pro bono project to redesign a holistic health center in Manhattan. It’s been the most challenging project of my life. It all started with trying to find a client. We spoke to a number of clients including hospitals and addiction centers, but we ran into issues with HIPPA and finding the right fit for our vision. We wanted to have full purvey over all aspects of the design from the physical space to technology to the way the staff interacts with…

January 26, 2015

Ease of Use vs. Wanting

“Still the wanting comes in waves” – The Decemberists I’m at a place at my organization where usability testing has become the norm, we have our own in-house lab, and the demand for the services is extremely high. I should be sitting on my perch celebrating right now, so why do I still have nagging doubts? What’s missing in this ideal scenario (that many User Experience practitioners are not blessed with)? Usability testing is great at uncovering areas where users get stuck or confused, and we’ve made wonderful incremental improvements to many of our products this way. I’d hate to think what would have been released without it. But usability…