Design-Research Frameworkv0.1 · working draft

Pillar two

Artifacts

One defined output per activity, from the 2010 spine. Each feeds the next, and the last feeds discovery again. Skeletons for now; fully worked specs come one at a time.

  1. 01

    Raw data

    Everything gathered while listening, before anyone interprets it.

  2. 02

    Matrices

    Patterns pulled out of the raw data and laid side by side.

  3. 03

    Personae and models

    Models and illustrations that turn the patterns into characters, goals and contexts a team can reason with.

  4. 04

    Requirements

    What the product has to do, worked out by narrating scenarios and testing rough prototypes.

  5. 05

    Approved design proposal

    The overall structure of the experience, agreed with the people who will build and fund it.

  6. 06

    Form and behavior spec

    How every part looks and behaves, refined against what validation found.

  7. 07

    Reports

    What happened when real people used what shipped. Then discovery begins again.