Anyone struggle to stay on top of their product/website user flow?
I hate that kanban boards don't give me a sense of the overall user journey i'm working towards.
So I'm working on a product that brings ux, ia and devs together into a single flow for everyone to get on the same page. Would that solve a real problem for you?
Keen to hear thoughts.
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[ 66.6 ms ] story [ 1255 ms ] threadI have worked at places where they gave me a PSD comp and I had to turn that into HTML that looked the same.
Other places I am told what to do (maybe with a crude mock-up image) and I make it in JSX with react-bootstrap, use any images I can find, make a placeholder for images I can’t find and then somebody else makes a real image later.
Either way I can produce a result I am proud of, but the process is very different.
I agree personal projects are easy to juggle in my mind, it's more that when teams get involved... things seem to sprawl really quickly.
is that something you've experienced?
Most organizations I have worked in have either been a startup or unit of a larger organization with 20 or so workers. That includes salespeople, data entry, grant writers, many of which are not devs, designers or management in charge of UX.
Usually out of a few devs some people are focused on UX, others aren't. That's either because specialization is required (distributed systems, neural nets, ...) or chosen by developers (so and so hates React.) It breaks down to a few people who know how to code and a few who know how to draw.
Specific problems come up such as:
* difficulties managing contractors
* politics (that academic library with 15 circulation desks each of which wants pixels on the home page)
* consumer facing apps that have to seduce users into becoming involved
but if you have a lot of people and need to make things that look like they came out of one mind you hire people like Johnny Ives or Bob Carmack or Tsunako to provide leadership.
I agree most people aren't directly involved in the website. I've found that for teams that are - the copywriters, product managers and designers have trouble coordinating who's juggling which priority.
I'll share an idea I have in the next day or so, keen to get your feedback.
All of them help, but they are slow and expensive. Not to mention changes.
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I'm working on the problem that presupposes the one you mentioned (how to convey requirements to designers) by means of rapid content prototyping. That is, prototyping without graphic design concerns.
https://uidrafter.com
Feel free to email me, my username at gmail