Over the years I’ve collected quite of few design process diagrams that I like and use as reference to constantly iterate on my process. Here are some of my favorites.
Donald Norman’s Double-Diamond Model
Reference: The Design of Everyday Things
Dan Nessler’s Double Diamond Model
Design Council’s New Double Diamond
Reference: https://medium.com/design-leadership-notebook/the-new-double-diamond-design-process-7c8f12d7945e
d.school’s User-Centered Prototype-Driven Design Process
Reference: http://dstudio.ubc.ca/research/toolkit/processes/
Stanford ME310 Design Innovation Process
Reference: http://web.stanford.edu/group/me310/me310_2016/about.html
EffectiveUI: UX Design Process
Objective-Based Design
Reference: http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/philosophy/objective-based-design-creative-approach-to-solving-business-challenge
http://www.axure.com/c/blog/177-five-ways-ux-firm-digital-telepathy-designs-through-conversation.html
Vijay Kumar’s Analysis-Synthesis Bridge Model
Reference: http://www.dubberly.com/articles/interactions-the-analysis-synthesis-bridge-model.html
Laseau’s Funnel
Mentioned by Bill Buxton in Sketching User Experience
Reference: https://blog.prototypr.io/a-good-design-process-90ae32d31dcd#.otxowy83a
Engineering Design Model
From Engineering Design Methods by Nigel Cross
Reference: http://www.core77.com/posts/52948/Why-is-Sketching-Still-Important-To-Design
NodeSource’s Digital Product Design
Reference: https://medium.com/@nodesource/what-is-digital-product-design-93caad4e4035#.vqd75mfoj
Paul Hershey’s Process
Nielsen Norman Group – Design Thinking 101
Reference: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/design-thinking/
Hang Guo’s Spiral UX Design Process
Reference: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2015/04/when-change-is-constant-a-spiral-ux-design-model.php
Ben Callahan’s Responsive Process
from Smashing Book 5
Reference: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/02/efficient-responsive-design-process/
nurun Human-Centered Design Process
Reference: http://www.nurun.com/en/what-we-do/
IDEO’s Design Process
Reference: https://medium.com/digital-experience-design/how-to-apply-a-design-thinking-hcd-ux-or-any-creative-process-from-scratch-b8786efbf812#.42ul4ts9w
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I very much enjoy this. Anything new on your radar lately? It’s interesting to me how all of these visualizations assume no gatekeepers, no persuasion exercises, no hurdles to implementation. Whereas every actual, real-world design process I’m aware of culminates with many presentations and much case-making… I show these to students with caveats 🙂
I love this. However, I note that none of these visualizations include a step that feels ubiquitous in the real world–presentations to gatekeepers. There ‘s usually a campaign aspect attached to any project that transitions from testing to implementation…