“When most people fall, the next immediate action is to look for the phone that slipped off their hands!” This is what I noticed about human behavior. As a UX designer pick up small immediate reactions of common people to understand them better!
Below are the steps to be followed for a successful UX design:
Step 1: Empathize
Empathy is the ability to walk in other’s shoes and understand their perspective. Assuming things based on your preconceived notions is the major stumbling block for a designer. Step out of the box and see the world from other’s perspective. A designer creates a framework for a great experience for his users. It goes without saying that if the framework is solid, great experience is a guaranteed result.
Always think as sleepy and tired user. Would you click NEXT? An honest answer to this is the key to success!
Step 2: Define:
A popular adage goes on to say that if you try to please all, you end up pleasing none.
Once you are done with figuring out the way different users think, decide for yourself which genre of the audience you want to attract. If you have a luxury cab app and you are focusing on impressing the school kids then perhaps you need to rethink.
Imagine yourself as a school kid and try to convince yourself if you would use a luxury cab.
Step 3: Brainstorming
Coming up new ideas every time might end up in hitting your head against a wall! This is the reason why brainstorming is so important. Go about brainstorming the way you feel it helps.
Start with throwing the most random ideas on your writing pad (Few would atleast guarantee a good laugh later on!).
Try breaking your aim in steps and think accordingly.
-Start jotting down any related word that comes to your mind related to the topic.
-Now start building on the random ideas you came through.
-By the end of this session a fruitful result is sure to appear!
“The journey is long but every finisher was once a beginner”.
Step 4 : Prototype
You have all ingredients with you in place, now it’s time to cook! You now have to build a framework for the ideas churned out from the brainstorming session which as you know can be a herculean task. This is where Canvasflip comes to your rescue, helping you craft your idea into a beautiful piece of app!
Step 5: Testing
The prototypes you build should now undergo a feedback session! Sharing the app with a target audience is possibly the best method for testing the app you have designed. Canvasflip provides you with a sharing platform. Based on the feedback keep making changes till you fix the perfect positioning of objects on the interface.
In this case there will be only feedback, no failure!
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