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— Thomas Watson Jr.
“Good design is good business.”
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Chief Executive Officer, 1973
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IBM Design Thinking is about delivering great experiences
for our users.
Watson Explorer
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IBM Design Thinking Framework
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Principles and Core Practices
Collaborate, Align, Engage!
Playbacks align your team, stakeholders, and clients around the user value you will
deliver, rather than project line items
Envision the User Experience
Sponsor Users help you design experiences for real target users,
rather than imagined needs
Invest for Market Outcomes
Hills focus your project on big problems and outcomes for users,
not just a list of feature requests
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Collaboration
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ProductManagement
Design Engineering
PROCESS
Not a new way of acting, a new way of thinking
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PROCESS?
Too many hills to climb
Perfection is the enemy of good enough
Milestones get delayed over and over again
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With a Lean UX team
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Title TextDefine and agree on top 3 business objectives
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• Cross-functional team
• User-centric design and development
• Maximize learning
• Just-in-time (minimize waste)
• Validate and iterate
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Quick iterations - tight feedback loop
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• Cross-functional team
• User-centric design and development
• Maximize learning
• Just-in-time (minimize waste)
• Validate and iterate
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Quick iterations - tight feedback loop
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“Redefining” good enough Milestone 1
“Redefining” good enough Milestone 2
Treat milestones as checkpoints (continuous delivery)Treat milestones as checkpoints (continuous delivery)
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Secret Sauce
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Culture
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Effective Teams
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Best PracticesEffective Teams
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Demo experience as a narrative
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Quotes from Playback 1
— Manuel Corniel, WW Sales Exec Big Data, Data Explorer
“I’d love to have you present this to the sales teams the same way, it tells the entire story...”
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Quotes from Playback 1
— Charlie Hill, CTO Design
“To me it’s like nirvana, you’re getting a non-mediated demo (directly from the user).”
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Lean UX wins… at BIG BLUE
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Lean UX wins… at BIG BLUE
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Thanks!
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