The Human-Centered Design (HCD) process is a flexible set of design principles that allows for the design of pretty much anything, from shoes, to cars, to software. Central to HCD is the principle that the designer is thinking of the end user at every step of the way. Would this decision make the product better for my user? Would making the color customizable delight my user and make them more likely to use my product? By asking these questions and thinking about your user, you're able to create a design that's more likely to be a success with its target audience.
The HCD process has the following steps:
The HCD process
- Discovery: In this, we research the problem we're presented with and the target demographic interested in our solution. We search to see whether this is something that someone has attempted to solve before and...