When entering a situation for the first time, or when re-visiting issues later on in the cycle, there are a few critical questions that as a designer you should continually ask (at least subconsciously if not always out loud) to avoid confusions or misunderstandings downstream.<\/p>\n
1. What assumptions <\/strong>are we making (about the user, task, context, technology, marketing requirements, etc.)<\/p>\n 2. What are the dependencies <\/strong>if any? Should team x be aware of what’s going on with this part of the product? Does team y know about team x’s change request?<\/p>\n 3. What are the expectations <\/strong>for this feature (held by stakeholders, customers, users, etc.)? Do we need to adjust those expectations due to changing circumstances, etc.<\/p>\n So in sum, always examine your assumptions, dependencies, and expectations and make sure everyone is on the same page! It’s hard to remember this when you are suddenly thrown into a situation or aggressively pounced upon by an engineer or product manager, but it pays off invaluably down the road in complex, multi-disciplinary contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When entering a situation for the first time, or when re-visiting issues later on in the cycle, there are a few critical questions that as a designer you should continually ask (at least subconsciously if not always out loud) to avoid confusions or misunderstandings downstream. 1. What assumptions are we making (about the user, task, … Continue reading “Key questions for every designer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff","category-practical-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}