Stepping Stones
Goal
Condense, communicate, combine
Condense your insights into tangible representations that can be re-used in the rest of the project and help to communicate findings to the team and client.
![research strategy stepping-stones](/img/stepping-stones.png)
Business Model Canvas
![Business Model Canvas](/img/cards/step-business-model-canvas.png)
Why?
Dream up in a structured and visual way, how a new company can reach its customers and make revenues in order to understand, discuss, create and analyse a business idea.
More infoComparison Chart
![Comparison Chart](/img/cards/step-comparison-chart.png)
Why?
A comparison chart, or comparison table, describes and compares attributes and characteristics of existing products or tools in order to determine the best option for your project.
More infoConcept
![Concept](/img/cards/step-concept.png)
Why?
When you develop a new product or service, the concept summarizes 'the big idea' or 'the main principle' on which your solution will be based. For example, most traditional churches have a floor plan based on a cross so God can recognize a church from the sky. Validate your concept(s) with stakeholders to determine desirability and feasibility.
More infoCustomer Journey
![Customer Journey](/img/cards/step-customer-journey.png)
Why?
Visualize the user experience of a service over time and across the different interaction moments (touch points) within the service.
More infoDesign Specification
![Design Specification](/img/cards/step-design-specification.png)
Why?
Describe the characteristics of a product, like a website or an application, in order to inform the designers and developers who are involved.
More infoEmpathy Map
![Empathy Map](/img/cards/step-empathy-map.png)
Why?
Summarize and synthetize findings from observations and interviews in a structured way. Empathy maps can offer valuable and unexpected insights in the user.
More infoInspiration Wall
![Inspiration Wall](/img/cards/step-inspiration-wall.png)
Why?
Save and organize creative ideas during a project, or even permanently, in order to have access to them very quickly and let ideas 'simmer' for a while.
More infoMood Board
![Mood Board](/img/cards/step-moodboard.png)
Why?
Before you start to make a design, a mood board can help describe the 'mood' or the 'feel' of the envisioned product.
More infoPersona
![Persona](/img/cards/step-persona.png)
Why?
Represent the user in discussions about the design in an elegant way.
More infoRequirements list
![Requirements list](/img/cards/step-requirements-list.png)
Why?
To ensure your design meets all demands, a complete list of requirements can serve as a planning tool and checklist.
More infoScenario
![Scenario](/img/cards/step-scenario.png)
Why?
Different types of scenarios exist that each serve a different purpose, for example to develop user criteria, to generate ideas or to reflect on a concept. Storyboards are a particularly common form to capture scenarios.
More infoTask Analysis
![Task Analysis](/img/cards/step-task-analysis.png)
Why?
When your product has to support people performing some kind of task (for example repairing a car), a task analysis will help you and other designers understand the task better.
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