If you’re part of a design team, chances are that you have at times experienced slow-paced product development coupled with a long dev backlog (with limited space for additional tickets from the UX team).
But to optimize how the product team (whether PO, UI, UX, or frontend devs) work together, it helps to experiment with useful tools, physical boards, and new processes.
For example, here is an exhaustive yet simple UX project checklist. This tool helps consider every key step (even if it turns out to be irrelevant to the project at hand) and includes the following considerations:
❇️ Research
e.g. competitive analysis
❇️ Plan
e.g. user stories
❇️ Explore
e.g. brainstorm and sketch
❇️ Communicate
e.g. IA
❇️ Consider ESG+
e.g. sustainability
❇️ Create
e.g. UI elements
❇️ Give feedback
e.g. waiting times
❇️ Finalize
e.g. the layout
❇️ Delight
e.g. micro copy
❇️ Analyze
e.g. KPI setup
This intuitive and simple yet useful tool has garnered a lot of attention from users worldwide and was even featured as the #4 Product of the Day on ProductHunt.
Credit: Andrea Soverini via Github
If you’re part of a design team, chances are that you have at times experienced slow-paced product development coupled with a long dev backlog (with limited space for additional tickets from the UX team).