From Muppets to Mastery: Core
UX Principles from Mr. Jim Henson SXSW 2013 Russ Unger | @russu

#UXMuppets | @russu “ You
wouldn’t decide to become a puppeteer, I don’t think.

#UXMuppets | @russu A Brief
History - The 1950s

#UXMuppets | @russu A Brief
History - The 1960s

#UXMuppets | @russu A Brief
History - The 1970s

#UXMuppets | @russu A Brief
History - The 1980s

#UXMuppets | @russu A Brief
History - The 1990s & Beyond

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MuppetLean

MVK #UXMuppets | @russu Minimum
Viable Kermit + =

#UXMuppets | @russu Iterate, Iterate,
Iterate, Iterate 1955 1965 1968 1978

#UXMuppets | @russu Iterate, Iterate,
Iterate, Iterate, Iterate 2005

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Project Ecosystems

#UXMuppets | @russu Client Product
Manager Project Manager Designer Marketing QA Dev

#UXMuppets | @russu Good Experiences
Are Invisible

#UXMuppets | @russu A Good
Experience is Invisible

#UXMuppets | @russu A Good
Experience is Invisible Give the audience enough to work with and they’ll do the rest for you.

#UXMuppets | @russu A Good
Experience is Invisible Give the audience enough to work with and they’ll do the rest for you.

#UXMuppets | @russu A Good
Experience is Invisible Give the audience enough to work with and they’ll do the rest for you.

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Visual Thinking

#UXMuppets | @russu “ I’ve
always been most intrigued by what can be done with the visual image. I feel that is what is strongest about the work I do...the visual image.

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#UXMuppets | @russu Sketching /
Storyboarding / Prototyping

#UXMuppets | @russu Sketching Henson
started sketching characters and comic strips as a kid. He never stopped.

#UXMuppets | @russu Sketching Henson
started sketching characters and comic strips as a kid. He never stopped.

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#UXMuppets | @russu Storyboarding A
storyboard is a graphic organizer that visually tells a story. Creating a storyboard helps you plan your story shot by shot.

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Patterns

#UXMuppets | @russu Patterns Original
Muppets were designed so that ~6 Muppets could be easily made from a single design.

#UXMuppets | @russu Patterns Original
Muppets were designed so that ~6 Muppets could be easily made from a single design.

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#UXMuppets | @russu Patterns Original
Muppets were designed so that ~6 Muppets could be easily made from a single design.

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Hacking

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#UXMuppets | @russu Hacking Jim
needed to see what the viewer would see, so he started using a “monitor” to view scenes from where he was located.

#UXMuppets | @russu Bernard Tyers
Belén Barros Pena http://www.diymobileusabilitytesting.net/ ~$3,000.00

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#UXMuppets | @russu WWJHD? What
Would Jim Henson Do?

#UXMuppets | @russu (So What?)
Jim Henson made sketching and prototyping a constant part of his thinking process. He read books, but not rule books. He hacked things together. He made it up as he went along. As a relatively new industry, so do we.

Thank You! SXSW 2013 Russ
Unger | @russu