Your Necessary First Step to Creating Powerful UX Metrics

Before we can identify the right UX success, problem-value, and progress metrics, we must know what our key UX outcomes are. And the only way to know what our UX outcomes are is to spend serious time learning about our users and their challenges.

Existing data rarely tells the story the design leaders need to tell. These metrics measure, at best, outputs

These UX metrics show activity in the design. They may occasionally show improvements in a few business metrics such as sales revenues or onboarding rates. However, the metrics won’t likely show if an improved design actually makes a differe

Identifying UX metrics that tell the team’s story; that are mapped directly to what happens when we deliver well-designed products and services

The first step is to determine the user experience outcomes the team is shooting for; answers the question If we deliver a great design, how does it improve someone’s life?

The UX outcome is the end state we’re trying to achieve. Once we know our UX outcome, we can create key metrics detailing our journey getting there.