02. Define Success Metrics

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Defining Success Metrics

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Define Success Metrics Recap

Things to Remember

The HEART framework is a user-centered method to define metrics that measure the quality of the user experience. It’s simple and easy to understand and can help with decision making in later phases. There are five dimensions:

  • Happiness - user attitude towards your product
  • Engagement - how users are using the product in terms of frequency or number/types of features used
  • Adoption - how many new users start using your product
  • Retention - how many users keep coming back
  • Task Success - ability for users to complete critical tasks in order to be successful with the product

Across these dimensions, you will then want to start by identifying goals, then signals, and finally metrics to measure how well your product is doing.

  • A goal is something the user is trying to do or something you are trying to help them to do
  • A signal is a change in user behavior that indicates that the user is achieving the goal
  • A metric is a way to measure signal and quantify how much user behavior has changed

Keep in mind that it’s ok for goals to have multiple signals and metrics. It’s also not necessary to have metrics for every dimension. It’s more important to pick things that are relevant to the problem you are trying to solve.

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The HEART framework

The HEART framework

HEART Framework Matching Quiz - Photo App

QUIZ QUESTION::

Sort the following into Goals, Signals, and Metrics for a Photo App

ANSWER CHOICES:



Stickie

Category

Upload a photo

Backup photos

Photos uploaded per user per day

SOLUTION:

Stickie

Category

Upload a photo

Upload a photo

Photos uploaded per user per day

Photos uploaded per user per day

Backup photos

HEART Framework Matching Quiz - Music App

QUIZ QUESTION::

Sort the following into Goals, Signals, and Metrics for a Music App

ANSWER CHOICES:



Stickie

Category

Average play time per user per day

Listen to a song

Click play button

SOLUTION:

Stickie

Category

Click play button

Listen to a song

Click play button

Average play time per user per day

Listen to a song

HEART Framework Matching Quiz - Travel App

QUIZ QUESTION::

Sort the following into Goals, Signals, and Metrics for a Travel App

ANSWER CHOICES:



Stickie

Category

Tickets purchased per session

Click buy button

Users arriving at final destination per day

Book a plane ticket

SOLUTION:

Stickie

Category

Click buy button

Tickets purchased per session

Users arriving at final destination per day

Tickets purchased per session

Users arriving at final destination per day

Tickets purchased per session

Users arriving at final destination per day

Book a plane ticket

Click buy button

Book a plane ticket