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OVERVIEW METHODS PHILOSOPHY  
 
A strategic and goal-driven process incorporates empirical research, business planning, and concept validation to balance business need with customer demand. This process operates using a set of tools that helps companies reduce risk and achieve product success, wherever you are in the product cycle.
 
Challenges, Deliverables, Tools
Challenges Deliverables Tools
Strategy    
Define scope
Identify features
Define customers
Product focus
Product features
Customer profiles
Interviews
Focus Groups
Stakeholder meetings
Competitive Analysis
Requirements    
Analyze user needs
ID user actions
Specify the system
Usage scenarios
Use cases
Object & flow models
Field ethnography
Goal & Task analysis
Business analysis
Surveys
Design    
Structure
Navigation
Content
UI & site architecture
Interaction & UI design
Templates & dictionaries
Prototype design
Information design
Participatory design
Prototype testing
Implementation    
UI Refinement
Product consistency
Interface reviews
Style guides
Surveys
Heuristic reviews
Cognitive walkthroughs
Release    
User acceptance
Real world usage
New versions
Performance benchmarks
Design Validation
Feature & bug lists
Performance testing
Field studies
Logging actual use
Questionnaires & Critical incidents

Anita was key in getting our (HomeGrocer ) group up and running quickly... the resulting UI improvements resulted in several design and service awards. Todd Rawlings, HomeGrocer

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