Busy as a bee, we are working on adding more cards.

Create fictitious characters that represent your target groups. They will help you look at the world from the user's perspective.

Talk to the users in their natural environment to uncover their behavior patterns and get inspired.

Define project goals to guide your decisions and evaluate results.

Busy as a bee, we are working on adding more cards.

Make an agreement on the customer interaction rules. This will help you making design decisions.

Map out all the customer interaction points to ensure you have everything covered.

Turn research results into stories to describe how customers could use your product. They will help you to be consistent.

Stick research insights up on the wall and organize them into sensible groups to identify what really matters.

Card Sorting Invite end users to design together the structure of your navigation. Read More Useful tools: Paper cards

Optimalsort

Navigation Testing Test the navigation with real users to validate if it makes sense for everybody. Read More Useful tools: Treejack

Rapid Prototyping Create mock-ups of your solutions to quickly find out what works and what doesn't. Read More Useful tools: Pencil and paper

Invision

Marvel

Framer

Click Testing Quickly test your design ideas with the end users to ensure they are comprehensive enough. Read More Useful tools: Verifyapp

Chalkmark

Usabilityhub

Visual Design Don't obfuscate the content or functionality. Good design guides the user's attention to build credibility and trust. Read More Useful tools: Sketch

Adobe Illustrator

User Testing Do an in-lab user testing with the end users for in-depth validation. Read More Useful tools: Morae

Silverback

Usertesting

Styleguide Document the style of the design components to keep the visuality consistent. Read More Useful tools: LB* Light

Zeplin

Bootstrap

HTML Prototyping Develop the prototype in HTML to polish the animations and ensure the responsivity works well. Read More Useful tools: Lighting Fly

Bootstrap

Atom

Sublime Text