Product Design Workflow

In the work of the summary of product interaction Design workflow, just wrote about, of course, specific projects have to focus on different, in many cases is the interaction of designers are some projects pulled to emergency, so it will be based on the node to enter the project has been adjusted. In general, concrete analysis of specific issues, each project characteristics and development environment is not the same. Here I work from the purpose, the way, the conclusion of the report, and the cooperation of several aspects.
On the one hand, we can ensure that our work progress and timely improvement of the results will be very clear to other teams to understand when we need to closely communicate with each other. This is very useful in teams and companies that have just introduced interactive design work into projects. The following are some of the most commonly used basic process links.

1. Demand Analysis
Objective: To provide user analysis based on product requirements and design requirements.
Methods: Interviews, focus groups, refining target users to establish role models, competitor analysis, refining qualitative and quantitative related data.
Conclusion Report: According to the analysis of target users ' usage characteristics, emotion, habits, psychology, needs and so on, put forward the user research report and usability design suggestion.
Partners: Marketing personnel, product demand customers, project leaders

2. Prototype design
Objective: Conceptual scheme design. Develop the business function and interface specification of the product.
Approach: Work with development team to design various interactive prototypes. Communicate with business experts and marketing department to confirm design and acceptance.
Role model design and situational design, through the presentation of the scene to summarize and gradually refine the user's use of various interactive requirements, propose design solutions, and complete the design of the demonstration, discussion, improvement, and final finalization.
Conclusion Report: Make interactive design prototype. Provide design standard specifications for user interface and interactive design implementations.
Partners: Project leader, development team, marketing staff

3. Prototype test
Objective: Product concept testing, testing the business logic of the product.
Methods: Heuristic evaluation, focus group role model design and situational design, through tasks to test user completion, and efficiency.
Conclusion Report: Test report. To address the problem, make suggestions for improvement.
Partners: Development team, Test volunteers

4. Production and development
Objective: To ensure the final implementation effect.
Methods: Work with product quality control team to track the process of user interface and interactive design and development. Communicate with the developers to provide clear definition and direction of implementation. Communicate with quality Control Department to provide clear understanding of the requirements during the testing phase.
Conclusion Report: Ensure the project goes on smoothly.
Collaborators: Development team, Project manager, visual designer

5. Visual Management
Objective: To make the interface design more consistent with product positioning, user usage and standard layout, and to guide the realization function correctly and effectively.
Mode: Host user research for interface visual guidance. Design window specification, graphical layout.
Conclusion Report: Interface test report.
Partner: Visual designer

6. Usability Testing
Objective: Through observation, to find out what happened in the process, what the user likes or dislikes which functions and operating methods, why.
Way: One-to-one user test
Conclusion Report: User background documents, user protocols, test scripts, questionnaire before test, questionnaire after test, task card, process record document, test report
Partners: Test volunteers, market-related personnel

7. Tracking
Objective: Feedback of product usage results.
Mode: User interview, user feedback
Conclusion Report: According to the feedback and the actual investigation, and according to the intended purpose of writing product feedback Results report. Includes the design that is worth affirming and the suggestion to revise.
Partners: Product users, market-related personnel