"Design is utilitarian, art is not."
Massimo VignelliWhat
Immerse
Goal: Understand business needs and current landscape
- Document business processes
- Catalog and audit current digital tools
- Review existing user research
- Competitive analysis
- User interviews
- Shadowing/contextual evaluation
- Create preliminary design objectives
Identify
Goal: Figure out what we know, what we don't know, and what we don't know we don't know
- Journey mapping
- Gaps and opportunities mapping
- Identify technology requirements
- Process diagramming
- Generative research
So What
Isolate
Goal: Determine focus areas, themes, and priority
- Experience design strategy
- Set measurement framework
- Identify key success metrics
Ideate
Goal: Generate design concepts that address gaps or opportunities
- Wireframes
- Conceptual prototypes
- Directional testing
Now What
Implement
Goal: Define product phases, versions, and deliverables
- Prioritize features
- UI Deliverables
- Usability testing
- Evaluative research
- Accessibility Testing