The Stages
Empathize
Identify the audience of your design problem so you can utilize research to learn of
their wants, needs, and objectives. Gaining insight and understanding the perspectives of your users
is key to good design.
Define
Analyze and synthesize information gained from user research to clearly define
a problem statement in need for innovative solutions.
Ideate
Think outside the box to come up with all sorts of creative ideas, using all sorts of
ideating strategies like mindmapping, brainstorming, and bodystorming. Quantity over quality
at this point.
Prototype
Use ideas from the previous stage and investigate said ideas with prototypes.
The aim is to experiment with the practicality and feasibility
of said solutions. Said prototypes should go through many reiterations to observe any limitations
and flaws before being tested.
Test
Allow users to interact with the prototypes to evaluate their success
and receive feedback. Another prototype phase may follow.
Implement
Execute your vision for the public.
