The Invisible UX


Me, myself & I

My name's Claudio (@omissis)

PHP & JS Developer for 7+ years

UX what?

"User experience" encompasses all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the company, its services, and its products.

from Nielsen Norman Group

Skylogic

Broadband Satellite Telecommunications

Turin, Italy

From php to drupal

  • improved and coherent ui elements and behaviors
  • one usage pattern
  • better and faster development
  • high reliability
  • good enough for enterprise users

Goom Radio

Social DJ Station

Paris, France

The Product Manager Way™

One design to rule them all

  • an expert, dedicated person was put in charge
  • implementing a vision
  • no user inputs
  • the pm is a single point of failure

Agavee

PHP Consulting

Munich, Germany

The Product Owner Way™

  • an expert, dedicated person was put in charge
  • implementing a vision
  • user inputs help driving design
  • possibily driving to more effective results

What about developers?

They can help improving the UX

Let's make a few considerations...

Users are impatient

Performance

Profiling is key

Schedule some budget for speed improvements

Find the bottlenecks and hit them hard

  • Page caching
  • Query caching
  • HTTP caching
  • Aggregate and minify js and css files
  • Optimize images
  • Use CDNs to serve your assets
  • ...

Users get angry

Reliability

Testing is key

Consider automated and human testing

Test First Ask Second

There are many ways and any one of them is better than doing nothing

  • Unit Testing
  • Acceptance Testing
  • Functional Testing
  • Human Test Team
  • ...

Users trust you

Security

There is no silver bullet

Still, you can do one or two things

A neverending battle

  • Keep your software up-to-date
  • Keep yourself up-to-date!
  • OWASP is a great starting place
  • Strongly encrypt passwords
  • Filter inputs
  • Escape outputs
  • ...

We can do better

Be to User Experience
what a DevOps is to Operations

Is "DevUX" born?

Thank you!


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