Product Definition
Product Definition is the first phase involved in the user design process. The team responsible for this will collect the user requirements based on their business environment.
It’s very much essential because understanding about the real scope of the product and their existence happens in this phase.
It’s simple; before beginning the work, enlighten your UI/UX designers about the requirements!
People involved in this phase are Design Team, Business Manager, and Product Manager. The entire team should consult with clients in their environment. Analyze their needs within the framework of your operation.
The significant outcomes of this phase are User Personas, User Stories, and Use Case Diagrams.
Research
In this phase, make use of the things collected in the Research phase. With the help of the information received, create hypothetical personas, and experience maps.
- Have an understanding of the competition.
- Making a thorough study of your existing domain.
- Going through competitor strategy to test outcomes..
The Research process should also involve an understanding of the latest UI/UX trends, design principles, and guidelines.
Analysis
- Hypothetical Personas: Creating hypothetical scenarios help the designers to know about the various persons who will be the users of your product. It allows depicting the realistic representation of the ultimate product. The design team can figure out how it is going to look like after delivery.
- Experience Maps: Experience maps shows the user flow within your final product. All these are done using visual representations through proper interactions with the client in the product definition phase.
Design
In the design process, we finally end up giving life to ideas that we have collected in the above three steps. It’s time to work on the final graphics now. The design team will execute the final design in this phase.
The significant outcomes of the designing phase are:
Sketching: The designing phase begins with sketching. The designers usually make hand made sketches to visualize the concept with simple terms. The UX/UI designers can stick to a particular option after the sketching process.
Creating wireframes: A wireframe is a visual structure that depicts the page hierarchy and the elements in the product. A wireframe is considered as the backbone of the product. It’s also called the skeleton of the design. It’s mostly about the overall look of the final product.
Creating Prototypes:Prototypes concentrate on the feel of the UI/UX product that one is designing. It’s more about the interaction experience. Prototypes give you the effect of a simulator.
Creating Design Specifications:Design specification includes user flow and task flow diagrams. It depicts the overall working and the style requirements of the UI/UX product. It describes the processes and graphical elements to create amazing user experiences.
Testing
Testing is the phase that determines the overall quality of the end- product. The testers make notes of the things that have to be improved and send them back to the respected team for correcting the errors.
While evaluating your final product, there are certain factors that one needs to keep in mind. They are as follows:
- Is the system user-friendly?
- Is it flexible and easy to operate?
- Does it solve the customer’s issue?
- Is it credible and attracts the users to come back every time they need your service?
