Storytelling makes research data come to life
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Presentation at UX Camp Copenhagen, May 2018 We all love our user research data… but why is it such a struggle to use the insights we uncover to create direction for our project? Storytelling is the missing link, getting past charts and graphs to dig into data. Whitney will show how stories put research insights into context, communicate the entire user journey, show problems through the eyes of your users, and help you ask better questions to gain deeper insights.
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- 1. Storytelling makes research data come to life Whitney Quesenbery Center for Civic Design @whitneyq
- 4. Our brains are wired for stories
- 5. Use your left hand to hold the paper out in front of you, with the + on your right. Use your left eye to look at the + Move the paper towards you slowly…until the circle seems to disappear + http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindspot1.html
- 6. What happens when the circle disappears? Your brain doesn’t leave a hole, but fills it in with the surrounding background
- 7. There must be a story in here somewhere
- 9. But add a storyteller …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
- 10. UX stories fill the blind spots in our product vision
- 12. Stories… Are created by the listener
- 13. Stories are not a broadcast
- 14. Stories create shared understanding 1
- 15. Stories create shared understanding 2
- 16. Stories create shared understanding 3
- 17. Stories create shared understanding 4
- 18. Things you hear from more than one source Have a lot of action detail Have details that illuminate user data Surprise or contradict common beliefs And are clear, simple, and compelling. Stories start from juicy fragments
- 19. We tell stories with data
- 20. Stories change how we think Our experience of the world is shaped by our interpretations of it, the stories we tell ourselves.... so the key to personal transformation is story transformation. - Timothy Wilson, Redirect
- 21. What story are these personas telling?
- 22. A story is a way of looking at the world “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
- 23. Why do people get so lost on our site?
- 24. What is the path of a cancer journey?
- 25. Stories put a face on data
- 26. What’s the trigger to commit? Rachel, Enthusiastic dreamer 28, finished one year at uni, works in an office Lives in North London with a partner Hasn’t settled down to a plan for her life First contact: OU ON TV Insomnia led Rachel to the OU, watching programs on the telly. She starts to enjoy the programmes and thinks about doing something to improve her career. It takes her a long time to act on this idea, but finally, she visits an Open Day. She spends ages thinking about it, sometimes browsing the web site, but also reading the brochures she has taken from the Open Day. On her third trip to an Open Day, she finally registers for an Openings course that’s about to begin.
- 27. eggs onions cabbage vinegar potato salmon Why are people searching for groceries on a university website?
- 29. ”Nurses don’t use technology”
- 30. Stories help us see patterns and use them to set priorities
- 31. UX work is full of stories Make the most of them
- 32. Stories… Are a catalyst for change
- 33. Thank you Whitney Quesenbery whitneyq@civicdesign.org @whitneyq Storytelling for User Experience rosenfeldmedia.com/books/storytelli ng Center for Civic Design civicdesign.org @civicdesgin
Editor's Notes
- Lighting design to UX Live, Ephemeral, Collaborative Most of all about telling a story To be more accurate, it’s about supporting a story told by the script, the actors, the directors. Like all the disciplines of UX, each of the people working on a production adds their skills to the whole. So the audience can have an experience .
- One of the problems with data, is that too often it looks like this.
- Visualizations help because they start to shape the story by what they show and what they leave out. But if I don’t explain this to you can you tell what story I’m trying to tell?
- Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
- Let’s look at how stories work Story triangle
- Or how we can hear stories differently
- Stories go wrong when you treat them like a broadcast. But it turns out that even a radio broadcast isn’t really one way communication. Why are radio antennas put in someplace as inconvenient as a marshy pond?
- Collecting stories helps us understand people and ]goals, context.... Finding themes and patterns is a step in understanding the audience Stories help us explore how our work can change the world Usability evaluation is a way of trying the story out to see if it works for other people, too.