- Working Together: Making a Unified Plan
- Goal: Make sure designers, engineers, managers, and marketers work well together from the start.
- Steps:
- Have regular workshops to talk about and agree on design ideas.
- Use tools that help everyone communicate easily and often.
- Responsibility: Getting Everyone Involved
- Goal: Make sure everyone feels responsible and included.
- Steps:
- Give everyone clear goals that match the team's and their own objectives.
- Let team members show their work to give them a sense of pride.
- Thinking About Users: The Focus of Design
- Goal: Always think about and solve user needs in new ways.
- Steps:
- Have regular sessions to learn about users and use the findings in the designs.
- Encourage everyone to think about the designs from the user's view.
- Making a Difference with Design: Standing Out
- Goal: Use design to show and enhance the product's special features.
- Steps:
- Find key features or user journeys that make the product different.
- Design with the goal of showing these differences without making things complicated.
- Helping Everyone Work Together
- Goal: Use the creativity and knowledge of all teams to improve the design process.
- Steps:
- Have brainstorming sessions with people from different teams.
- Have regular design meetings with people from different areas.
- Understanding the Effects: Owning the Metrics
- Goal: Help designers understand and own the numbers related to their work.
- Steps:
- Teach designers about the important numbers and metrics for the product.
- Include metric reviews in the design process to check and change based on the data.