Contextual Inquiry
Contextual Inquiry is a interview method to uncover who users really are and how they work on a day-to-day basis. This creates a empirical basis for the later design.
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Usability/User Testing
User (or usability) testing is a process of evaluating a solution idea for a future product or service to see how well it fits the problem or need of the indented target users. The aim of user testing is further more to gather feedback and insights from users in order to improve the user experience, usability and functionality.
Sketching
The sketching method is a technique used in the ideation or conceptual design phase of the creativity process to explore and generate new ideas quickly. It involves creating rough, low-fidelity sketches of concepts and ideas to communicate, visualize and evaluate them.
Product Vision Box
The Product Vision Box is a fun, useful and collaborative tool, typically utilized at the onset of a new project, that enables team members to clearly define, understand and communicate the vision of a solution. The idea is derived from typical product packaging such as cereals.
NABC
NABC – Needs, Approach, benefit, Competition – is used to frame the development and communication of innovative solutions based on user needs and value creation. It a good way to structure pitches.
Scenarios
Written Scenarios are plausible descriptions of the future, in which an idea or solution has become reality. Together with Personas they are quick way to explore how a problem is solved for an intended target group and show the usage of a solution in a given context.
Trivia Quiz
A Trivia Quiz can work as a fun ice breaker or “mind freer” as well as an engaging assessment tool of the students learning progress.
Idea Purchase
Participants rate the ideas and decide which ones they are willing to spend the money on. Also known as the $100 test.
Spider Meeting
Spider Meetings a great way to generate sparkling ideas around a specific problem or task. It is a combination of brainwriting, pitching and sketching. Ideas are fleshed out and evaluated from the edge of the spider’s web to the center.