Discovery
Understand the business requirements, audit and analyze current sites, systems, and processes, and uncover the pain points and needs of the target audience.
Business onboarding
Experience audit
Map current processes
Site metrics & analytics
Stakeholder interviews
User research
Competitive review
Landscape analysis
Strategy
Synthesize the audience needs, key insights, and opportunities uncovered during discovery into an actionable experience strategy that brings to life the vision for the project as well as the best solution for development.
Audience definition & needs
User journeys
Insights & imperatives
Experience principles
Concept & long-term vision
Experience strategy
Content strategy
Technical solution
Definition
Define and prioritize all possible features of the experience and the functional requirements. Design the initial creative foundation (voice, personality, look, feel, structure, concepts, and motion) to complete the framework for development.
Creative foundation
Feature set
Functional requirements
User stories & sprint plan
Process flows
Site structure
Content taxonomy
URL migration plan
Creative development
Agile development process of creative sprints to build prioritized components. Test and learn throughout development to iterate and optimize design and code for future sprints.
Low-fidelity sketches
Wireframes
Functional specifications
Interactive prototypes
Acceptance criteria
Quality assurance
User testing
Guidelines & training
Creative leadership
Provides constructive direction
Drives user-centered thinking
Listens to and fosters new ideas
Collaborates to find solutions
Presents and sells through work
Leads client workshops
Management
Builds and leads cross-discipline teams
Mentors and helps grow talent
Defines timing and deliverables
Identifies project and team gaps
Development understanding
Agile methodology
Business Process Management
Content Management Systems
Digital Asset Management
HTML / JavaScript / CSS
JIRA project management
Modular / scalable components
Responsive web design
Search engine optimization
Adobe Creative Suite
Acrobat
Illustrator
InDesign
Photoshop
XD (learning)
Wireframes
Figma (learning)
Sketch app
Zeplin
Prototypes
InVision
Proto.io
Webflow
User research
Survicate
Survey Monkey
Typeform
UserTesting.com
Userlytics.com
Google
Android
Docs
Drive
Sheets
Slides
Apple
iOS
Keynote
macOS
Microsoft
Excel
Outlook
PowerPoint
Teams
Windows
Word
Collaborating
Jira
Miro
Slack
Teams