Five User Experience Lessons from Tom Cruise by Steve Tengler.
From the post:
As previously said best by Steve Jobs, “The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better designs we will have.” And the better the design, the more your company will thrive.
But how can we clarify some basics of User Experience for the masses? The easiest and obvious point of reference is pop culture; something to which we all can relate. My first inclination was to make this article “Five User Experience Lessons from Star Wars” since, at my core, I am a geek. But that’s like wearing a “KICK ME” sign at recess, so I thought better of it. Instead, I looked to a source of some surprisingly fantastic examples: movie characters played by Tom Cruise. I know, I’m playing up to my female readers, but hey, they represent 51% of the population … so I’m simply demonstrating that understanding your customer persona is part of designing a good user experience!
Tengler’s Five Lessons:
Lesson #1: Social Media Ratings of User Experiences Can Be Powerful
Lesson #2: Arrange Your User Interface around the Urgent Tasks
Lesson #3: Design Your System with a Multimodal Interface
Lesson #4: You Must Design For Human Error Upfront For Usability
Lesson #5: Style Captures the Attention
Whether you are a female reader or not, you will find the movie examples quite useful.
What actor/actress and movies would you choose for these principles?
Walk your users through the lessons and ask them to illustrate the lessons with movies they have seen.
A good way to break the ice for designing a user interface.