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Design for the Mind: Design Elements

 
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Hi Victor

Thanks for coming out with such an intriguing title.

In general Design thinking is often mistaken for Visual design ,while is it is partially true what are the design elements which go into this?

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Sundar



 
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Hi Sundar,

Fun question! I agree with you that design thinking extends well beyond visual design elements. I take a holistic approach (which is accounted for in Design for the Mind as well) that includes:

Navigation - how are we helping our users navigate the product through breadcrumbs, search, tabs, icons, and other elements that help with way finding
Workflow - do the tasks users accomplish unfold in a logical way
Information presentation/communication - do we use language and terms that users are familiar with? Do we teach users what we want them to do in a way that is easily understood, also: notifications and alerts - how do we present users with this critical information
User behavior - ultimately you have to account for how your users behave. You need an understanding of psychology as well as insight from research to accomplish this
Systems thinking - I also advocate that design thinking includes thinking about your product as a system. How do your elements and features work together? What happens on Page B if you change something on Page A? There are connections that we need to identify and address whoever we add, change, or remove something from our design.

I hope I answered your question. I think you could ask 10 people and get at least 5 different answers. This is a very expansive topic and I would probably add more once I spend more time thinking about it.

Victor
 
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Thanks Victor.

As we know ,there are"No one size fits all" Solution.There are no single process or tool kit that would fit all the use cases
People can customize wide varieties of processes and tool kits to their need.

But broadly,as classified by some industry experts and academia,the process model would fall under this cyclic model

Empathize=>Define=>Ideate=>Prototype=>Test

In the context of that ,i may be wrong here , is it fair to assume this kind of model or Design thinking perse would work only in Agile kind
Of environments?

 
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