Create a GitHub Wiki For User Experience Interviews
Channel: Stateless Code
Date: 2023-03-23

Our initial backlog has dwindled down to almost nothing. So what do we do next? In this video we take a step back from active coding and talk about the approach. In our project we want to deliver value to our users, but how do you figure out what that value is.

The first step on that path is to understand our users. I personally know a lot about the subject matter (a good idea for a solo project), but I have biases, idiosyncrasies and blind spots. What we want to do is find out how other users do table-top role-playing. Do they use digital tools? If so, which ones and how do they use them? What are their pain points and gaps that might not be provided well?

Unless seed capital magically falls from the sky, we are not going to have the resources to outdo the established players in the role-playing management space. By interviewing users, perhaps we can discover a niche that other products aren't providing. Since this is first-and-foremost an educational endeavor, it's okay to overlap some of the features that the established products have, but the input of our users should weigh heavily when it comes to prioritizing features.

We decide to make a Wiki for the GitHub project and create a home page, a user experience page, and a user experience initial interview page.

This video covers:
00:00:12 Introduction
00:01:59 Doing your own usability and T-shaped skills
00:03:39 Code what you know, but get the perspectives of other potential users
00:05:00 Recommendation of Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
00:06:45 The initial research goal: discovery of current state and lay of the land
00:09:30 Overview of the questionnaire
00:11:08 Create our first Wiki page, a home page
00:18:33 Create a user experience Wiki page
00:20:46 Create user experience questionnaire
00:29:00 Close the GitHub issue

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See other related StatelessCode videos:
- Why Rails in the 2020s? https://youtu.be/f1ca3rKQSD0
- Why Stateless Code? playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9kkbu1kLUeO5Htd6ZHJVZO1hrAGkFS1z

Resources that we relied upon for this solution:
- Don't Make Me Think, Revisited by Steve Krug https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/

Link to the Wiki:
https://github.com/statelesscode/nerd_dice_dot_com/wiki/

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