1. Usability & Prototyping Uday M. Shankar Yahoo! Bangalore India

2. Usability + Prototyping Uday M. Shankar | Yahoo! Bangalore India

3. Who am i  Been in UI/UX space for 11 years  Present: Owns PROTOTYPING in Yahoo! India  Past: Was with Nokia Bangalore  Tweets at @udayms  Blogs at udayms.wordpress.com

4. User Interface Design Facilitating the user to perform a specific task in a specific context in a fast and efficient manner by leveraging the power of technology and design. USER TASK CONTEXT

5. As Design Evolves Low fidelity Less functional detail Static Less formal testing Disposable Paper Understand Explore & Validate Communicate High fidelity More functional detail Interactive More formal testing Re-purpose-able Code

6. Age old Process

7. ‘New’ Process 1 Visual Designer Interaction Designer Developer

8. ‘New’ Process 2 Visual Designer Interaction Designer Developer Usability Tester

9. ‘Another’ New Process Visual Designer Interaction Designer Prototyper User Research Rapid Iterations

10. I Recommend Designer Prototyper User Research Rapid Iterations

11. Why?  Going back to the drawing board is not a problem!  Documented design evolution  Sign off on design decisions

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13. Prototypes

14. Know your User

15. Know your Competition

16. Know your Goals

17. Evaluate Market Value

18. Evaluate Technical Feasibility

19. Evaluate Design

20. Evaluate User Experience

21. Remember!  Keep it quick & dirty  Beware of Feature creep  Dont let ‘legacy’ design for you  Dont let design bias your user

23. Users are not REALLY forgiving Users are not REALLY forgiving

24. Be Technology Agnostic Be Technology Agnostic

25. Experience is the driver. Not Technology. Experience is the driver. Not Technology.

27. Questions?

28. Thank You @udayms udayms.wordpress.com linkedin.com/in/udayms