Approach
Embracing an iterative and methodical approach, my design process harnesses the power of diverse methods, skills, and tools to drive meaningful insights, innovation, and impact. Discover how I navigate the stages of framing, research, analysis, synthesis, prototyping, and strategy to craft tailored solutions that push the boundaries of possibility.
Research
Gathering relevant information and insights to gain a deep understanding of the problem space.
Collecting data and perspectives that inform the subsequent design decisions.
Skills
Recruiting and networking: Identifying ideal research participants, creating recruiting screeners, and using correct tools and channels to access participants.
Protocol Development: Creating research guides that prioritize questions aimed at uncovering key learning objectives. This includes recruiting screeners, interview and focus group guides, and survey development.
Facilitation: Leading interviews and focus groups.
Empathy and User-Centricity: Ability to empathize with users or participants, understand their needs, behaviors, and motivations, and integrate user-centric perspectives into research.
Collaboration: Proficiency in collaborating with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, or participants, fostering a collaborative research environment, and integrating diverse perspectives.
Adaptability: Ability to adapt research methods and approaches based on project requirements, context, and emerging challenges or opportunities.
Ethical Considerations: Understanding of ethical guidelines and principles in research, ensuring participant privacy, confidentiality, and informed consent.
Fore-sighting and scenario mapping: Identify emerging trends, anticipating future opportunities, and outlining potential signals and actions to strategically adapt to actualizing trends.
Technical Project Management: Managing research projects, including planning, organizing, and prioritizing tasks, ensuring successful and efficient outcomes, user and client satisfaction, and team alignment.
Record-keeping: Note-taking and documenting of conducted research.
Methods
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Applying inclusive principles and methodologies to ensure accessibility and usability for users with varying abilities and backgrounds.
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Ensuring identity, body, sensory, self-perception, emotional, mental, and physical states and perspectives are represented.
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Immersion into a particular social context to gain deep insights into the culture, behaviors, and experiences of the studied individuals.
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Engaging a small group of participants in a facilitated discussion, exploring shared opinions, experiences, and perceptions on a topic.
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Systematically collecting quantitative and qualitative data from a large number of participants through a structured question set.
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Individual conversations with a participant, gathering in-depth qualitative data on experiences, and perspectives.
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Gathering existing information, data, and resources from various sources such as white-papers, reports, books, articles, and databases.
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Analyzing market dynamics, consumer preferences, and landscape data for insights into user needs, trends, and opportunities.
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Understanding user’s mental models: how they organize and categorize information, informing information architecture of a product or system.
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Receiving recorded experiences and behaviors of users over time to provide insights into their interactions with a product or service.
A diary study consisting of 43 participants (existing Roti customers), 260 unique lunch stories, 364 text messages and 210 self-documented photos. Shown here is the synthesis of the daily lunch photo submissions.
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Bridging the gap between algorithms, developers, and customer-interfacing designs through informed research and collaboration.
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Examining past and present data and reports to identify patterns, trends, and potential future developments, and signals.
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Validating and refining design concepts by presenting them to user’s for feedback and insights.
Tools
Note-taking and guides (Google Docs, Notion)
Collaboration and communication tools (Slack, Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and Chat)
Stakeholder recruiting tools (DeepBench, dscout)
Project management tools (Trello)
Digital whiteboarding tools (Muro, Mural)
Databases for secondary research