Tuesday - UX Course by Wizeline. (2)

Sprint is a methodology used to find solutions to problems in just five days. Jake Knapp divided the chapters of his books by days of the week; Monday is all about planning, defining the problem, and choosing an objective, Tuesday is the time when we start looking for ideas to solve the problem.

The day is divided in just two sections. The fist part is all about mixing and improving actual solutions that exist to similar problems. If the problem you chose is about the medical industry, you are going to have to research about actual hospitals and clinics that already cover your problem. When you have identified some references, you will have to try to make it better somehow. The next step is to find a way to get all these good ideas and try to apply them on your project. What we’re looking forward is to get a functional prototype. After focusing on a specific part of the problem, and looking through all the possible existent solutions we can start designing some possible solutions.

The second phase of the Tuesday talks about designing possible solutions for the problem. The book shows us that you don’t have to have any expensive tools to start making designs for projects, and how drawing helps you to understand what you really want to achieve with your solution. We learned about the Crazy-8 method, where in only 8 minutes, you have to draw 8 sketches of possible solutions and make them as different as possible, this will help you to understand what are the most important features of the solution you want to implement.

In the next phase, you have to draw a story, so you can see how an user would interact with the solution, if it is not easy to understand, it will be useless, and we want our solution to be adopted.

It is important to design before starting to implement, maybe you don’t have a clear idea of what you are really looking forward, or maybe it would not help to solve the problem you wanted to. It is cheaper to correct a design than to correct a finished solution.