How I Work
- Understand the problem
Interview users or review user research to develop an understanding of the user's goals. Set goals for what you hope to achive.
- Understand the current solutions
Examine how users are currently solving their problems. Are they currently using a different app to solve this problem? An excel spreadsheet? A pen and paper?
- Ideation and sketching
diverge and explore possible solutions to the problem in the form of sketching. Keep the sketches simple to iterate through ideas quickly.
- Prototyping
Review the sketches and pick the best ideas, or combination of the best ideas, and present them in a high enough fidelity to properly convey how the interface will function.
- Testing
Present the prototype to as many users as possible. Gather feedback. Iterate based on that feedback.
- Implementation
build the damn thing...
- Measure and iterate
What's working? How could it be better? Continue to improve in a measurable way.