The Product Development Process: Your 10-Minute Guide

There are many different kinds of product and design processes that can be adopted as design systems, like double diamonds, spiral models, Lean, and many more.

The design phase is not just about putting your ideas into pictures; it also includes expansive thinking and validating your ideas with real people. This includes both the user experience (e.g., mock-ups and visual prototypes) and the technical solution (design docs and technical prototypes).

Celebrate the process, not the tool. Sometimes you might shoot a quick video prototype. Sometimes a drawing will do the trick. Sometimes a rough storyboard will be enough to illustrate a multistep process.