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UI / UX Design Audit & Remediation Plan
Is your current data product, analytics app, or enterprise SAAS too hard to use? Got great analytics & ML tech behind the scenes, but customers aren't seeing the full value?
Do customers or business stakeholders struggle to perceive the value of your data product or model, despite significant data science and technical investment?
If you're a commercial SAAS product, are your renewals at risk? Are you hearing negative feedback about your UI/UX during sales demos?
You need a remediation plan: what to fix, when to fix it, and how to fix it—so customers will find your solution indispensable. The UI/UX Design Audit is just that—a complete diagnostic of your existing solution followed by a plan that outlines quick, tactical UI changes you may be able to start making immediately, and the strategic-level UX improvements you need to make to realize your business and customer objectives.
Price: $18k
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I would tell everybody about this [Audit] service
Companies like us, we don’t have design eyes, right, or want to invest in a design group. Our biggest fear [going in] was that [the Interface Design Audit and Remediation Plan] wouldn’t necessarily be actionable. And, the good news was that it was actionable. Separate from being an expert, Brian was able to describe things in ways that really made us understand. I would absolutely tell everybody about this service. You should reach out to Brian because he does good stuff!
Get an actionable remediation plan in 1-2 weeks:
Plus, you'll receive retainer access to me to ask questions about the audit.
Advisory Retainer
Get answers, fast. Monthly, 24-7 access to me about product, UI/UX design, and making indispensable data products for customers.
Designing useful, usable, beautiful data products customers find indispensable is challenging. Learning things the hard way can be extremely costly. Your ML, data science, analytics, or engineering efforts need to show results, and if there are humans in the loop, then how you design the last mile experience can have a huge impact on your ability to produce value. You don't want to produce a technically correct, but effectively wrong solution that produces little to no value, and that's where my retainer can help if you think you're going to have design, UI/UX, research, product, or strategy questions along the way.
A retainer with me is intended to give one person—you—access to me when you need good advice or answers, and you need them quickly. You are leveraging my 25+ years of design and business experience so that your data products, enterprise applications, visualizations, and ML/AI solutions are human-centered and capable of producing the user engagement and business outcomes you seek.
Price: $8k/month
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Brian brings a very high floor in terms of end results. The worst possible end result they will get from him is so much higher than what most designers can provide at their best.
When you’re bringing on a consultant, there is always a level of uncertainty about results, and there’s nothing worse than ending up with solutions that aren’t feasible, workable, or usable at the end of the process. While Brian’s processes differed from what I was used to, and I didn’t always want to get into the level of requirements detail that he felt was necessary, the bottom line is that Brian brings a very high floor in terms of end results. Given how many different responsibilities I am juggling at any given time, it was extremely comforting to know that my goals for the [new Apptopia analytics] product would always be met, and that my bottom line was so high. I’ve recommended Brian to my peers because the worst possible end result they will get from him is so much higher than what most designers can provide at their best.
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The Brain Picking Call
Want to pick my brain about a challenging issue with one of your data products? Maybe you have people, process, or technology issues standing in the way of delivering great UX to your users and customers? Do you just need a fresh, objective pair of eyes and ears to listen, mirror, and provide you with advice about how to move forward?
Why not pick my brain? Easy online scheduling, and it's 100% guaranteed or your money back.
Price: $745
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I have learned more about analytics from Brian than all the books, articles and thought leaders in the space…
I have learned more about analytics from Brian than all the books, articles and thought leaders in the space through his posts on LinkedIn and the amazing content from his website. Brian has a wealth of knowledge that can save you years of failed dashboard designs and a framework to help any user see the value of your product. I look forward to each session and growing the value of our product with his guidance.
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Instructor-Led Seminar
A 4-week online, instructor-led seminar teaching you how to apply a product-oriented approach to increase adoption and business value of your ML and analytics apps.
Designing Human-Centered Data Products is my flagship training offering for individuals and teams seeking to produce human-centered data products that get used and generate value.
New in 2023: Seminar participants also get lifetime access to my forthcoming Data Product Leadership Community.
If you or your team are making data products, services, or solutions that are going to involve human users making decisions and taking actions with the information, then you're already doing design—even if you don't see it that way today. While it's getting easier to technically build AI solutions, predictive models, and data products, what eludes many software and data professionals is how to get these solutions into production, make the product resonate with customers and delight the stakeholders who only care about value and outcomes. The seminar is available publicly twice a year (~March and ~Oct), or privately for your team on your schedule:
Price: $2,495/individual for public sessions. Contact me for Private Seminar pricing.
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I would absolutely highly recommend Brian's seminar. Without a doubt.
“I hadn’t heard of Brian before, but I had been enjoying his podcast and way of thinking, and on a leap of faith, I decided to bring him in to train my data science and analytics managers and leads. And after completing our first training, I can safely say there is no risk associated with this seminar. One of my goals was to change my team’s mindset about putting users at the center of our work, and I am already starting to see a positive change, though a long journey ahead of us. You get some tangible, real-world tools that are practical and applicable, so it’s not just “theoretical.” My head of data science also now sees UX and design as a must-have in his team’s advanced analytics projects, not a nice-to-have. I would absolutely highly recommend the seminar without a doubt, and plan to have more of my team take the seminar in the future”
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Switching my mindset from outputs to outcomes was a total game changer for me.
“Brian's more practical, targeted approach in this seminar has been very beneficial as it was focused specifically on designing data products with UX in mind. It’s not every time you can meet someone, ask questions and get useful responses, and I was able to do that in Brian’s seminar. In addition to realizing some of the common mistakes I had been making, I also had a big aha moment: understanding outcomes versus outputs. This is more valuable than some of the tactical things because you shift your frame of mind and it’s a total game changer. The way you interact with your users and develop and deliver a solution completely changes. That’s the power of that wisdom. I’ll be referring back to the content and videos from the seminar now and again, and I’d definitely recommend this seminar to other technical product managers.”
Next Public Session Starts October 16, 2023
Private team training is available year-round.
Self-Guided Video Course
Designing Human-Centered Data Products
My video course is a self-guided version of my instructor-led Seminar that includes all of the same curriculum without a cohort of other students or me as your live instructor. If you are good with self-directed learning, do not need other students to help motivate you, and are looking to work at your own pace, this course is the best option to learn a collection of step-by-step design methods you can apply immediately to produce useful, usable, engaging data products that deliver practical decision support.
Price: $450 (includes lifetime access to the DPLC community when it opens)
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My (8) video modules will give you practical design advice you can apply today. Each video includes a written supplement that is bundled into a 75-page PDF ebook.
Design Strategy Talk & Team Discussion
How can design help data-driven organizations and leaders produce outcomes instead of outputs? Find out from a professional performer—without your audience falling asleep.
Change sometimes begins with inspiration. If you believe your data science, analytics, or BI team needs a dose of inspiration about customer-centricity, human-centered design and UX that looks beyond data visualization, considering hiring me for a 45-minute private talk (online) with your org, followed by a 60-minute traditional and reverse Q/A discussion.
In my talk, we'll look at the mistakes I see data-driven software teams making, how design helps produce actionable insight and decision support, and what aspects of intentional design a team can be practicing right away. Immediately following the talk, we'll open it up for Q/A and a lively discussion—so your team's culture can take the first step towards changing how it builds data products. That's right: I'll also be asking your team the questions they need to hear and projecting the responses live in real-time.
And why would I be a good speaker for your organization?
I'm consistently rated highly as a speaker (view testimonials), probably in part due to my professional background in music as a drummer/percussionist. I've performed in front of audiences of over 100,000 people, host a 5-star podcast on Apple Podcasts, and have spoken to groups both large and small. My inspiring style mixes fun, sarcasm, passion, and the occasional tambourine solo. Why? Because the data alone won't convince anyone! These talks also work well as a precursor to my private training Seminar.
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Brian created real awareness…well-attended talk with solid interaction and attendance…I am certain we delivered value to our IIA clients and community members.
Brian has spoken several times for IIA, most recently as the key guest on a webinar we hosted on "AI Product Management". The topic is hyper relevant, so naturally it was a well-attended talk with solid interaction and excellent retention. Despite the challenges of Covid-19, "Zoom fatigue," and the summer time slot, over 80% of our registrants stayed until the end. Brian created a real awareness around the importance of product design and management as critical functions in the deployment of human-centered data products, AI solutions, and analytics. I also appreciated how he made the talk more engaging by allowing one of our clients from Steelcase to reflect on his own experience applying several of the strategies for which Brian advocated. In the end, I am certain we delivered value to our IIA clients and community members.
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Custom Engagements
Enterprise Software • Data Product Strategy • AI, ML, and Analytics • Intelligent Products
Get specialized help for your unique situation.
Analytics, machine learning, and engineering without good UX design often results in a technically right, but effectively wrong solution. I help companies create innovation data products that actually produce tangible value.
Most enterprise customers don't want data or analytics. They want actionable decision support. Furthermore, not every design problem is a data visualization problem. Machine learning models introduce new UX concerns that must also be dealt with if AI is to deliver value. From data privacy and model transparency to the probabilistic nature of predictive analytics, it's even more critical to ensure these data-driven applications are human-centered.
If you're looking to improve the look and feel, utility, or usability of your data product, app, dashboard or algorithm, book a free Discovery Call with me and I'll help you explore what it might take to get things on track.
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Brian's designs and recommendations significantly shifted people’s excitement and expectations about our technology. He understands data.
A big concern when you’re introducing new technology to your staff and clients is making sure they will want to use it. We were concerned about the ease of use and appeal of a new survey data platform we were introducing, but Brian was really able to understand our challenges quickly. His design and recommendations significantly shifted people’s excitement and expectations around it. A big reason why we hired Brian is because he understands data, and the new design he created will only help reinforce GSG’s brand as being innovative and ahead of the curve. My team has been really impressed with Brian's ideas and the simplicity of the designs he created. I definitely recommend him!
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[Brian is] the reference for a great designer
I always considered you as the reference for a great UX designer so your name still comes up from time to time.
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Brian T. O'Neill (bio)
Founder and Principal