Set of basic foundational questions to help a UI designer (or user researcher) get up to speed on a project, focused on understanding the core functionality, primary user goals\/tasks, and targeted scenarios of use. These questions are meant as a good baseline starting point, and are not comprehensive nor exhaustive!<\/p>\n
FUNCTIONALITY<\/strong>: What does this product actually do<\/p>\n Below is proposed a more granular breakdown of PRD-itemized functionality, beyond “Mandatory” and “Highly Desired”, with more meaningful terms (for designers)<\/em><\/p>\n ** Priority **<\/strong> ** Function Name **<\/strong> * Internal FunctionName – The name given in development. ** Description **<\/strong> * Reason – Statement if functionality needs clarification outside of the Mission Statement. Motivation, rationale, purpose and goal.<\/p>\n * Dependencies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c List\/description of other functions required for this to exist.<\/p>\n ** Other Measures **<\/strong> * Person Hours – Effort involved Set of basic foundational questions to help a UI designer (or user researcher) get up to speed on a project, focused on understanding the core functionality, primary user goals\/tasks, and targeted scenarios of use. These questions are meant as a good baseline starting point, and are not comprehensive nor exhaustive! FUNCTIONALITY: What does this product … Continue reading “Basic discovery questions (pt 1)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nP0 – Non negotiable. It isn’t a functional product without this feature.
\nP1 – Critical. Product can initially exist without this feature but not for long.
\nP2 – Differentiating feature. May provide significant usability\/marketing value.
\nP3 – Nice to have.
\n\u00e2\u02c6\u2026 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Considered but dropped.<\/p>\n
\nThe unique identifier by which a task will be known. Best stated using verbs like: Maintain, Search, Review, Modify and Initiate.<\/p>\n
\n* External FunctionName \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Optional \u00e2\u20ac\u201c name given after the fact by marketing.
\n* Competitor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Names \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Optional \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Competitors names for like functions so that readers can research them.<\/p>\n
\n* Basic \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Text stating what data and actions are required as well as results.<\/p>\n
\nWhile not necessarily assisting in the design process the following are useful in understanding the functions relevance.<\/p>\n
\n* Requirement Categorization – Functional, Usability, Marketing, All
\n* Version – If something gets pushed, what version it is expect to be put in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"