Process Of UX Design In 6 Simple Steps
“A User Experience Design process is an iterative method that helps you continuously improve the design”.
Stage 1: Understand
“If you have 4 hours to chop down a tree spend the first 3 hours sharping your axe”.
Starting a project, you need to understand the basics: Your user, Your Brand: What’s their problem?
Stage 2: Research
Now you know what question you’re trying to solve, its time for research.
Your research will be the life of your project. What you discover will lay the foundation for how your entire project will turn out.
Stage 3: Analyze
In this stage, you will have gathered the information from the previous two stages to analyze and distill the most important elements.
Here we align our learning with business goals and user needs.
Here are some ways you can analyze your research:
User personas
User journey maps
Experience maps
Affinity Diagrams
Stage 4: Design
Now, it’s time to actually build out your design.
That means creating things like:
Site map
User Flow
Mockups
Wireframes
Images
Icons
Colors
Stage 5: Launch
Transform your design into clickable prototypes:
User testing- Iterate.
User testing- iterate.
User testing- iterate.
You will receive valuable feedback where you can fine-tune issues.
Stage 6: Analyze (again)
By thoroughly analyzing the product and process, you’ll get more than just a product-you will gain invaluable knowledge for the future.
Your UX process will be unique.
All stages might look different for you compared to another company and product.
The important thing is to find a process that works for you & (most important) your users