It is always a challenge to improve someone else's idea or product without destroying it. I do it for living and here is my recipe.

1. Incremental Improvement
by Tanya Zavialova

2. How old is Facebook?

3. 2005 2015

4. How old is Coca-Cola bottle?

6. How old is UX Camp Europe?

8. great examples of quality improvement
illustrate development of ideas and technology
but preservation of legacy

9. Why do I want to talk about it?

10. On one hand
some designers believe
that by discarding work
of another guy or girl on
a project
they start revolution.
Most often not!

11. On the other hand some
product owners believe
that by simply adding
more features they make
their product better.
Most often not!

12. I want to share my recipe

13. Assumptions to start with
• Technology changes
• Context changes
• Expectations change
• Ideas evolve
• You work on yet
another iteration
Therefore
• Think roadmap
• Think development
bandwidth
• Think evaluation

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Steps to take to initiate a quality improvement
1. Study existing version first: purpose, history, mechanics…
2. Get know users and their feedback’ feedback.
3. Find out what ideas development team has.
4. Read business requirements for the first time. All!
5. Analyze existing pain points and missing parts
to fix before new features can be developed.

15. 6. Re-create information
architecture and/or
screen flow.
7. Group new features into
categories.
8. Find an appropriate
place for new features
between existing ones.
F1
F2
F3
F2.1
F2.2
F2.3
F4
F2.4
F4.1
F4.2
F1.1
Sometimes you need to add not requested features to accommodate requested ones.

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Steps to take to make a quality improvement
8. Go through features list and sketch ideas
considering existing pain points.
9. List screens and functions that might be affected.
10. Be ready to revise screens at least twice.
11. Discuss proposal with product owner.
12. Discuss proposal with developers (de-scoping follows).
13. Prepare semi-final specification, get approval and share.

17. thank you