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User Experience
Some thoughts on how to
improve it
24.11.2008 Mobile Monday Milano

Simo Säde, CEO, Etnoteam Finland Oy

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Etnoteam Finland Oy

The leading usability and user experience consulting company in Finland.

• Established in 2001

• Employs over 25 people, revenue € 1.5

million (2007) and some € 2.0 (est. 2008)

• Belongs to Value Partners Group, which

is based in Italy and has offices in 12
countries

• Value Partners Group employs ~ 3000

people worldwide, with a turnover of €
290 million

• Etnoteam works in several countries and

has an international partner network.

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What is User Experience?

• There is not yet any widely shared definition for user

experience. Current draft for the ISO definition is

A person's perceptions and responses

that result from the use or anticipated use
of a product, system or service.
ISO DIS 9241-210 (ex-13407)

• The overall experience of using or consuming a

product or service that covers its user interface and
usability as well as other experiences and emotions
that might emerge also in the long run. - Wikipedia

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What is User Experience?

• Concept
• Functionalities
• Content
• User interface
• Usability
• Service chain
• (Exceed) expectations
• Brand
• Novelties
• Coolness, etc. etc…

• -> The wholeness affects

user’s personal 
experience

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What is User Experience?

• Situated, context dependent

• Dynamic

• UX is seen as subjective, dealing with

psychological issues like affects,
emotions, cognition, values, and
attitudes

• User experience happens before,

during, and after using the product
• Expectation
• Experience
• Judgement

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How to create products with great UX?

• User-Centered Design (UCD) is the product

development approach which ensures the
product suits to its users’ needs

• Not based on technology, but on users’  
needs, capabilities, and desires. UCD has
three main requirements
 Involve users in product development
 Visualize the ideas
 Iterate

• Simplified process:
 First interview the users to get requirements
 Design
 Usability test the prototype with users
 Fix the design

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Measuring the quality of UX
• Why measure? For setting and reaching
targets
 User research for requirements
 Measuring against reqs to guide design
• The existing process of usability testing
can be used for UX evaluation
• How to measure?
 For instance interviews, focus groups, think-
aloud in usability tests
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• Must be measured also in early phases
 It is easiest to evaluate user experience
with a real product, on the market
 However, it would be most important to
measure the UX in the early phases of
product development - in order to be able
to influence the final outcome
 At that point, the various product elements
are separate or not there yet
• The proper toolkit for UX evaluation
has not yet been developed. In order to
evaluate user experience, one has to
 Understand what UX is
 Define metrics or key aspects of UX that
can be measured
 Develop methods for gathering data for the
measuring
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Case example – Measuring UX of a mobile device

• Simultaneously with usability testing

• Different test scopes and phases

• Early concept feedback  (First time usage) usability tests

• Various product ideas were validated • Concentrated on usability of the
with users product
• Presented with low-fidelity mock-ups, • With PC and embedded prototypes
scenarios, etc.
 Long-term usage study
• Out-of-box test • The product was given to the users to
• The appearance of the product, box, try for a longer period of time
manual etc. was tested • Several interview rounds
• Concentrated on Wow effect and take-
in-use

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Thank you for your attention

• Thanks to Virpi Roto/Nokia Research

Center for valuable insights
• Thanks to my colleagues Marju Kettunen
and Sanna Lagerström at Etnoteam

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