Understand

Day 1

This is the day when the the various team members bring their diverse knowledge to the table, ‘unpack’ the problem, and define the objectives of the prototype. Key activities of the day include, analysing existing data, benchmarking the competition, defining personas, creating user route, defining problems and the vision.

Diverge

Day 2

Team members take a breather from the ‘war zone’ and individually sketch their own ideas and interpretation of the prototype. Key activities of the day include, creating mood boards, storyboarding, silent review, and critical group discussion..

Converge

Day 3

The divergent ideas from last week are now voted on by the team members and are collected into a coherent whole that will go to form the framework. Key activities of the day include, idea prioritisation, team sketching, zen voting, and wireframing.

Prototype

Day 4

All the ideas from the previous days will be gathered by into a prototype on this day. Our expert what? within the team trained in name the tools will be in charge of the design of the views and the creation of the prototype, while the others aid in bringing together the graphical elements and content.

Validation

Day 5

The final stage is the ultimate test of the prototype, where we invite neutral and objective users to test the prototype. We simply put the participants in front of the prototype and ask them to  perform some simple tasks, and monitor their issues. The key takeaways from this testing is then informs the final perfect product.