Design Thinking

How often do you open apps on your phone and have a difficult time understanding how to use it? Was the app to high tech to understand? It could have been too simple to attract your attention. Aspects such as this play a huge part in User Experience Design. UX Design is vital to understand how well an audience will respond to your app or website. You have to know who, what, why and how of your audience. This will determine if the design is user friendly or not. The UX Design of an app or a website ultimately determines the amount of success you will receive from the public. If the audience can successfully utilize and have a pleasant experience while using the application, It proves a great experience to the audience.

The first step for a successful user experience is to determine the audience you want your design to attract. By knowing the target audience, you can determine the look of the design, the theme of the design, how much technology to include in your experience, and much more. The goal from this point is to ensure that the design for the app or website fits the audience best. The design thinking process is most important during this portion of the design process. 

Some creative ways to help with Design thinking is to begin laying out diagrams and charts to help plan out ideas. One way would be to start a flow chart with how the app or website will be set up. This helps with having a visual representation for how the app will be navigated for the users. The flow chart is used to plan out the pages from the home page to the other links in pages that lead you to other pages. This allows the design to have a set organized plan to go with.

Design thinking goes deeper than the thought or idea of the design. It deals with having a connection to the design that you are working on for a specific audience. It is using a solution-based technique to solve an issue dealing with the design. The steps for the design thinking process range from empathy, to ending with testing for the design on an audience. From then, you will define the problem, create an idea to help fix the problem, then create a protype to test out to the public.

Design thinking encourages UX Designers to acknowledge the changes in society that could affect a specific user experience. The experience can change from individually for a person as well as collectively over time as trends evolve. Each stage of the design thinking process if important to the entire design. The are more than just steps to follow in order. Each stage provides a complete part to the final results. If the design thinking process is completed correctly you will have successfully found a deeper understanding of the users, you are creating for. The design should ultimately reflect the solution to the product and problem.