How to Use Data to Inform Your Design and Drive Your Business

Brent Summers, Director of Marketing at Digital Telepathy
Using Data and Design to 
Drive Your Business
June 25, 2015

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Brent Summers - Digital Telepathy - @brentsummers
Brent Summers is a marketer at Digital Telepathy where he
gets to indulge in data and design on a daily basis. His
background in project management and business analysis
helps him to produce measurable results and constantly
improve performance.
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1 Data is All Around You
2 Data Already Informs Design
3 Consider the Entire User Journey
Table of Contents
4 Designing for Business Objectives
5
6
Prioritizing Your Backlog
Measuring Success

A Rose By Any Other Name
How many data scientists (by any name) are there today?
“…there are many data scientists with the title
so ware engineer, research scientist, etc., so the
number of people who match on a skill and
education basis regardless of oﬃcial job title is
probably in the 150K-250K range.” 
— Peter Skomoroch, Sr. Data Scientist & LinkedIn— Peter Eckert
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Data is All Around You

Quantitative Data
Sales Reports
Sources might include: Google Spreadsheets, Excel, Salesforce, Magento, Bigcommerce

Quantitative Data
Application Performance Data
Sources might include: New Relic, App Dynamics

Quantitative Data
Search Engine Optimization
Sources might include: Moz, BuzzSumo, HubSpot, Google Adwords

Quantitative
Web Analytics
Sources might include: Google Analytics, Kiss Metrics, Filament.io, Adobe SiteCatalyst

Qualitative Data
Customer Surveys
Sources might include: Qualaroo, Intercom, Customer.io

Qualitative Data
Customer Interviews
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Qualitative Data
Personas
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Observation
Heat Mapping & Scroll Mapping
Sources might include: Crazy Egg, Google Analytics, App Sumo, Lucky Orange

Observation
User Behavior
Sources might include: Google Analytics, UserTesting.com, Guerilla Testing, VerifyApp

Studies
Census, eBooks, Industry Reports
Sources might include: Forester, Gartner, Harvard Business Review

Research Types
Choose the right research for your needs.
Quantitative
- Quick to build
- Translates easily to measurement
- Useful for large groups of people
- Limiting to responses
- Information loss
- Confirmation bias
Qualitative
- Allows for greater depth
- Research can be iterated as new info is
revealed
- Difficult to maintain rigor
- Analysis is time consuming
Observation
- Task centric
- Real-world
- Lack of narrative
Studies
- Objective & trust-worthy
- The work is done
- Not situational or contextual
Strengths Weaknesses

Data Already  
Informs Design
2

A/B Testing
Optimize for conversions.
Data Already Informs Design

Eye Tracking
People read in F-Shaped Pa erns
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Eye Tracking
People look where people look.
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Vertical Rhythm
There’s a reason paper is ruled.
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Color Psychology
What does your brand color say about your business?
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The Golden Ratio
1.618 — Symmetrical mathematical relationship built from consistently asymmetrical parts

Consider the Entire  
User Journey
3

Identify the Friction
Evaluate sentiment/friction at each stage of the user journey.
Consider the Entire User Journey

Deﬁning the User Journey
Each stage represents a unique opportunity to impact your bo om line.
Consider the Entire User Journey
Awareness User becomes aware of their problem, or your product or
service (happens off-site)
Coverage
Mentions
Consideration You communicate your unique value proposition to your user
Bounce Rate
Time on Site / PPV
Acquisition The point at which an anonymous visitor becomes named. Trial Signups
Subscriptions
Conversion The act of purchasing a product or service through self
service or a sales process.
Sales
Upgrades
Activation Interaction with product/site/service post signup Churn
Upgrades
Retention Post-purchase. Activities that drive further product
engagement, adoption and upgrades.
Renewal
Advocacy When users of your product or service promote your product
on behalf of your brand.
Social Shares
Referrals
Deﬁnition Common Metrics

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Designing for 
Business Objectives
4

Identify the Friction
Where can you make the biggest impact?
Designing for Business Objectives

User Journey
Consideration: You communicate your unique value proposition to your user.

Landing Pages
Incremental improvements can drive exponential results.
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Be er Social Sharing
Social sharing + content performance insights.
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Animations
Scroll is the new click.

Change Language
Try diﬀerent value proposition, calls to action, etc.

Change Layout
Use behavior pa erns to drive decisions.

User Journey
Conversion: The act of purchasing a product or service through self service or a sales process.

Content Marketing
Share knowledge to establish trust.

Onboarding
Step-by-step walkthroughs for new users.
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Get the First Click
Break through psychological barriers.

User Journey
Retention: Post-purchase. Activities that drive further product engagement, adoption and upgrades.

Progressive Disclosure
Reduce cognitive load: hide data until a user requests it.

Progressive Reduction
Simplify your user interface for experienced users.
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Testimonials
“Who doesn’t love social proof?” - Brent Summers

Keep Track of Experiments
At Digital Telepathy we like Trello, Spreadsheets, and Post-Its.

Practical Advice
Use a formula to assess which experiments to do ﬁrst.

Sample Experiments
Which of these experiments should be implemented ﬁrst?
Experiment 1 Experiment 2 Experiment 3
Observation I’m not meeting my sales forecasts
Open-rates are very low on
some blog posts.
People aren’t understanding
how to get started in my app.
Hypothesis
Site visitors don’t understand my
product.
“How to” post titles work
better than “## Listicle” titles.
People aren’t understanding
how to get started in my app.
Experiment Try different value propositions.
Rewrite a former listicle topic
as a “How to”.
Send a drip explaining
product features over the
course of the trial period.
Effectiveness
Rating
8 / 4 = 2 2 / 4 = 0.5 10 / 4 = 2.5
KPIs
Bounce rate
Time on site
Acquisition rate
Open rate 
Click-thru rate
Share rate
Churn rate 
Paid conversions

What does the data tell you?
Identify where can design make the biggest impact.

Rounding Out the Process
Your implementation method is unique. Measure the results. Repeat.

Good Design is Great for Business
Design lead ﬁrms out-perform the S&P 500 by 228%.
Measuring Success
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Spend A Li le to Get A Lot
That’s one helluva return.
“Numerous industry studies have stated that
every dollar spent on UX brings in between $2 and
$100 dollars in return” 
— Peter Eckert
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Measuring Success

Questions?
Brent Summers
Director of Marketing & Content
Digital Telepathy
@brentsummers
Thue Madsen
Marketing Operations
KISSmetrics
@thuelmadsen

THANK YOU
Brent Summers
Director of Marketing & Content @ Digital Telepathy

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