The Elements of User Experience

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UNDERSTANDINGINTERFACESMoMA DESIGN Online STORE

THE FIVE PLANESOF USER EXPERIENCEUser-centered design for the web

SURFACEPLANEOn the surface you see a series of web pages, made up of images and text. Some of these images are things you can click on, performing some sort of function such as taking you to a shopping cart. Some of these images are just illustrations, such as a photograph of a book cover or the logo of the site itself.

Logo

Photographs of the products

images

Icons

Main: Blue and Black

Negative Space: White and Gray

New Products: Green

Sales: Red

Best Sellers: Purple

MoMA Exclusive: Orange

colors

SKELETONPLANEBeneath that surface is the skeleton of the site: the placement ofbuttons, tabs, photos, and blocks of text. The skeleton is designed tooptimize the arrangement of these elements for maximum effect andefficiency—so that you remember the logo and can find that shopping cart button when you need it.

User & SearchUpper Right

Menu Upper Left

CategoriesUp & Left

ProductsMiddle

STRUCTUREPLANEThe structure is a more abstract skeleton of the site. The skeleton might define the placement of the elements on the page; the structure would define how users got to that page and where they could go when they were finished there. The skeleton might define the arrangement of navigational items allowing the users to browse categories; the structure would define what those categories actually were.

STRUCTURE PLANE

STRUCTURE PLANE

STRUCTURE PLANE

SCOPEPLANEThe structure defines the way in which the various features andfunctions of the site fit together. Just what those features and functions are constitutes the scope of the site. Some sites that sell booksoffer a feature that enables users to save previously used addressesso they can be used again. The question of whether that feature—orany feature—is included on a site is a question of scope.

SCOPE PLANE• Products

• Categories

• Login/Account

• Join

• Cart/Checkout

• Search

• Registry

• Favorites

• What’s popular

• Customer Reviews

• Related Items

• You/Other people may also like(d)

• Stores Info

• Museum Info

• Order Status/History

• Newsletter

• FAQ

• Customer Service

• Moma.org

• Facebook

STRATEGYPLANEThe scope is fundamentally determined by the strategy of the site.This strategy incorporates not only what the people running the sitewant to get out of it but what the users want to get out of the site aswell. In the case of our bookstore example, some of the strategicobjectives are pretty obvious: Users want to buy books, and we wantto sell them. Other objectives might not be so easy to articulate.

STRATEGY PLANEMoMa Design Store Strategic Objectives:

• Generate sales of design store items

• Increase sales by suggesting items that users may like, based on their browsing history

• Display appealing photography of items for sale

• Provide a user friendly experience, to encourage customers to return

User Objectives:

• Purchase uniquely designed objects for oneself for as a gift

• Easily browse items to make the perfect selection

• Receive as much detailed information about the objects as possible

• Sort items based on different criteria (i.e. price)

• Hassle free returns and/or a satisfaction guarantee

Presented by: Bruna Calheiros - bru.calheiros@nyu.edu

BE HERE NOWITP 2012

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