Design Process
Design process refers to the steps and procedures designers follow in the doing of their work. UX is a process dominated discipline as it is an integrated field if design. UX often integrates research activity, data analysis, concept generation, prototyping, testing and evaluation, implementation and delivery. A key aspect of UX is synthesising all the information that might arise from these steps which may be carried out at varying degrees of fidelity or sometime not at all. There is no single way to do UX design despite attempts from design thinking advocates to impose double diamond or similar models. Over the past few years we can observe a flattening in the way UX has been done, with a consequent homogenisation of design outcomes. On MA:UX we emphasise the making of physical things as an important way to externalise aspects of a design that may otherwise remain hidden and the development of individual approaches to design alongside a thorough knowledge of industry processes such as Agile or Kanban that have crept into design from the software production field. An awareness of process driven work can help to identify how an outcome comes to be, how to mitigate negative effects of process and how to structure the kind of creative inquiry conducive to the emergence of equitable and reflective design.