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User Experience Design Process: Critical Path
Meeting
coordinated by
Program
Management
UE Team member
assigned to
project
attends meeting
Takes input from
all members as
related to UI
design
Receives Requirements
Document
Needs:
List of team
members,
contact info, initial
schedule,
approval process
(people)
Prod. Mktg. feeds team
any results from Marke t
Research
Functionality/
Conceptual model
testing with early
prototypes
Discussion with engineering
about any potential new
technology and its impact on
schedule and desired user
tasks
Design team
brainstorms, iterates
and collaborates on
visual representation
of functionality and
screen designs
Work can begin while
user flow a n d
functionality is
iterating
Visual Design
exploration,
copy writte n
and finetuned
Design works wi th
Usability to provide
prototype and
guidance of what
priorities of
discovery shoul d
be - i.e. business
constraints,
technical
constraints,
optional versions to
test
Design team
presents
wireframes a n d
mockups to
production with full
set of style specs
[font size & color,
line spacing,
colors, images,
links, etc]
Experience
Design team
review Visual
direction
Detailed Product
testing - both for
functionality and
specific content and
visual design
Product Team meets -
Design meeting with
Product Marketing,
Engineering, and
Usability to review
recommendations
Refine Visual
direction, copy,
user instructions,
help and UI
components as
necessary
Final functionality &
visual design signoff
- Production
- Engineering
- QA
- Partner (if applicable)
- Usability
- Creative Director
- Product Marketing
- VP (as necessary)
Production receives
approved mockups
and works wi th
Design on product
area as needed
Production builds
site and features
working wi t h
Engineering as
applicable
Engineering informs
Design if there are
changes, issues w i th
planned functionality
Product Team meets -
Hand off to
production,
engineering and
operations mode of
the product cycle
Project Initiation
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