My processes.
My process within an established design team follows key approaches with peer reviewing at each step (where appropriate).
- Understand - Understand problem statement or task by examining the domain area, speaking to stakeholders, and researching existing similar solutions.
- Document - Document dependencies, data requirements, and goals within a design file.
- Create - Create modular wireframes as a scaffold for design, understanding the page hierarchy and most important visual aspects (usually the primary CTA).
- Design - Mock up using existing components - making designs grayscale and removing graphics to keep focus on the task at hand, not visuals.
- Prototype - Integrate with existing or new user flows—creating clickable prototypes if appropriate.
- Review and test - Conduct peer reviews and refinement through discussions covering usability, requirements, development feasibility, and business requirements.
- Rinse and repeat until approved.
- Document for handover - Using modular design methods to suit business timescales - providing MVPs not just for full pages, but for modules of pages or processes, delivering components that work out of the box from a design system, plus adaptations for improved usability and visuals, considering scalability and reuse across the system.
- Handover - Handover with three amigos and provide support throughout sprint cycles.
What I do
Inception
- Design sprints
- Scoping
- Stakeholder workshops
- Requirements gathering
Research
- Desk research
- Guerrilla testing
- User observation testing
Service design
- Journey mapping
- Service blueprint
User experience
- Process mapping
- Wire-framing
- Information architecture
- Prototyping
- Interaction design
Design systems
- Design patterns
- Design tokens
- Component based design
Visuals
- User interfaces
- Iconography
- Brand
- Responsive design
Web
- Accessibility and semantic HTML
- CSS styling
- Javascript
- React.Js Components
Design Ops
- Version control
- Team collaboration
- Process optimisation
- Modular design and standardisation