Product Case Study

Exploring information architecture and software interface design decisions

Deliver

When those open issues are nailed down, the team knows with some precision what they need to do, and they go off and deliver on the promises made to their customers.

You need to be efficient and steady in making progress towards the finish line. You have lots of stuff to do, you know what it is, and you need to go about doing it. At this point, what you need is a sheepdog, rounding up the flock and bringing them home at day’s end, making sure that no straggler gets lost.

Now start or continue the steady delivery of working software, based on the answers you’ve come up with. As additional questions arise, don’t panic or try to sweep them under the rug, just continue to add them to the list and get answers to them. Similarly, if the answers to some questions change, just make sure everyone is in agreement with the new answer, record it, and proceed to deliver.

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Workflows

These are typically the first UI-oriented deliverables in a design process. Designers create wireframes typically to show early drafts of proposed solutions or ideas. It is a skill to craft lean layouts for stakeholders and team members to see whether an idea is worth pursuing. Wireframes are therefore usually grayscale and primitive, with designers building from user flows, sitemaps and such.

Interaction Design Foundation – IxDF. (2024, January 23). What are UX Deliverables?.

Use Cases

what needs to happen and the user journeys too

Interface Designs

the thing everyone thinks UX is, because they can see it

Validate

can you show it does what you said it was going to do?