Identifying what to and what not to
4. Analysing Competitor Landscape
It’s important to identify who you are competing with. This helps in defining both offensive and defensive strategic context to identify opportunities and threats. The way we do it: identify potential competitors and their target customers, specify key matrices or competencies and assign each one a score. Then rate each of them on the identified matrices and plan on what we need to do and what not in the UI UX product design planning.
Divergence to Convergence
5. Mindmapping and Card Sorting
This is the step where we involve product owners, developers, managers and finally designers to throw every data we’ve collected on the wall. We then group each of them on sticky notes/cards. The sorted map should have similar and related components of an application in chunks giving us a base to form a menu structure from a high-level view. The Result? A seamless UX that is approved by everyone. No wonder why we call ourselves masters in user experience design.
The guidesheet for developers
6. Defining UI Guidelines
The next step is setting up the color palette, typography, call-to-action buttons, notifications and alerts, icons and possibly every component of a user interface. We draft a customized UI guide-sheet helps our UI UX developers to work independently. This, in turn, reduces frequent follow-ups with designers. That’s how we carefully design your web and mobile applications.