The second week is over and I have completed two additional tasks.
The first module of the course is now done and I am ready to dive in into competitor analysis. This is the first step towards the final objective of the course which will be to bring an app called "Taskly" to life. More on that in the next few weeks!
This week I learned about design processes.
Let's have a look at Lean Design and the Double Diamond processes.
Lean Design:
Ideate: Everything starts with an idea. It doesn’t really matter if the idea is particularly fleshed out. As long as you have an idea to experiment. It’s a go.
Prototype: From the idea, you then create a prototype. The quicker and cheaper your prototype is the better.
Test: From testing you will gain new insights and ideas which you can then implement in your prototype and test again.
The Double Diamond:
Discover: Start with user research. Map out the problem space as wide as possible to have as much data as possible.
Define: Define the problem. Now narrow down and go deep on the problem to define the scope fo the project. The problem should be something you can realistically solve with the resources you have.
Develop:
Now that you understand the problem, the problem space, and the scope, it’s time to develop.
Go wide and try as many possible directions or ideas.
Deliver: You chose one idea and develop it to the most tangible solution you can take to your client or users. Prototypes can help.For moments I felt I was procrastinating... and really had to motivate myself to keep going with the course and avoid the thoughts "I still have the whole week...." , "I could do that over the weekend".
While at it I remembered a Tim Urban Ted Talk I saw not a long time ago about procrastination. This is a really funny and insightful talk and if you have 15 minutes to spare you should give it a go!
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Well, I did complete my tasks.
Remember the Yahoo Feature description of the previous tasks (you can review it here) ?
This week's first task was to try to improve the features that i didn't really like in the previous Yahoo feature analysis.
I had to sketch with pen and paper and try to recreate visually what the website looks like. Hope it is understandable :)
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| Yahoo improvement with Help Heuristic |
You can read the whole exercise following this link.
The final task was to pick and examine 3 Project management web apps.
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| dapulse Task Management Analysis. |
I have chosen Asana, dapulse and DeskHive and you can see the slides here.
Well hope you enjoyed and this week's post and feel free to contribute.
Your opinion is welcome!
See you next week!
