Designed for Use

Part 2Design

By now, you have a pretty good idea of who your audience is and what kinds of problems you want to solve. You probably even have a basic idea of how the solution might work. But be careful: you don’t want to settle on any particular solution yet. The human mind is pretty good at rationalizing information that goes against its current opinion. So, don’t form opinions too quickly. Try not to focus on a specific design or solution; doing so might make you blind to better approaches.

Instead of immediately going for fully formed ideas, start slowly. In this part of the book, you’ll start by doing flow diagrams of your product. These are very simple, high-level ideas that will help you figure out how your product might work. Slowly, ...