The Stage-Gate Process helps teams manage new product development through structured stages, from idea generation to launch. Each stage is separated by gates where progress is reviewed, risks are assessed, and decisions are made to continue, revise, pause, or stop the project. Its main advantages include scalability, flexibility, customer focus, and integration with agile and lean practices. However, it can be criticised for being too linear and restrictive, which may limit creativity, prototyping, and deeper iteration.
What is Behavioural Design? And How to Apply it
In simple words, behaviour design is a method to understand behaviour sciences and apply this knowledge in designing products, services, and apps. The use of behavioural sciences in design is to create solutions, achieve innovation, and empower people. Behavioural design can influence the human mind and aid our choices. Whenever you want to change a habit, […]
What is Kano Model Analysis? And How to Conduct it.
Designing a product can be challenging. The array of features and designs to select and eliminate is daunting, especially when stepping out into the field with customer satisfaction and delight in mind. There are endless questions and possibilities at the early stage of the design thinking process. How will the product perform, or is this service […]
How to Use the Action Priority Matrix in Time Management?
Unlike regular jobs. Designers are required to handle various tasks on different levels. This challenge increases when working as a freelancer or working in your own start-up. Most designers complain about the lack of time to achieve their tasks within the required deadlines. While many believe they can re-organize tasks in order to gain more […]
Design Thinking Tools and Methods Complete Guide
There are several design thinking tools and methods out there. At the beginning of my learning about these tools, How can we formulate these methods in a clear design thinking methodology to solve different design challenges? Understanding the nature of design thinking helps us identify where and when to use the design thinking tools and […]
13 Online Design Thinking Tools for Mind Mapping
Design thinking tools provide us with the opportunity to explore ideas through their different elements and components, which can lead to developing creative solutions for problems. Mind maps are one of these methods that follow our primary research. After researching the problem, we bring all the related elements and start to see the problem from […]
How to Use Role-Play Method in UX Research
As human beings, our lives are formed as a net of intersected stories. Reading or watching stories help us to put ourselves on others shoes, feel their pains and pleasant experience. Accordingly, role-play can be one of the effective method in UX research to explore about users' needs and experience when using the developed product […]
Free Webinar: Introduction to Google Design Sprinting for UX
Google Design Sprint is one of the UX design processes that is based o the agile methodology. It aims to put the user in the center of the development process in addition to technology and business. Unlike the other UX design processes, the Google Design Sprinting aims to shorten required for the UX design process […]
Webinar: Prototyping Using Adobe Experience Design
In Designorate, we aim to spread the word for the broader role of the design process inside the enterprise and build a consumer-centered culture inside individual firms. Therefore, we will start our Designorate Webinar series. During this series, we plan to engage with you through live sessions that discuss different topics related to design, design […]
UI Design Patterns and How They Are Applied
UI design patterns are based on the observations of Christopher Alexander. In 1960, he observed that many things happen in our lives according to recurring patterns. This observation was later implemented in different design fields in order to solve problems with existing solution patterns. In user experience, the UI design patterns refer to user interface […]
The Role of White Space in User Interface Design
In the field of design, controversies between clients and designers sometimes arise regarding the use of “white space,” or negative space between user interface design elements. Misinformed clients are often under the impression that any empty space should be filled in with practical elements. Experienced designers, however, know that white space between typography glyphs, content […]
Download Our Free Business Model Canvas Template
Achieving innovation in business requires deep understanding of the aspects of the business. This understanding is what separates success from failure, yet the focus on essential business elements may be distracted by a 50-pages business plan, as our minds are able to focus on the ideas when they are visually presented, rather than written in long […]
How IDEO Creates the Future of Automobility
Today’s car designs are based on the same design concepts of decades past; we can’t declare that there is disruptive innovation in the car manufacturing industry, only a few changes that are added along with the launch of new models such as adding features or altering the design lines. However, designers’ roles are not limited […]
CLIP: The New Game-Changing Layerless 3D Printing Technology
The 3D printing technology is evolving very rapidly as companies and startups continue to develop new innovative ideas to take new technology from the prototyping phase to the industrial and mass production levels. Investigations and research are taking place not only in the implementations of 3D printing technology but also in overcoming the barriers faced […]
Six SWOT Analysis Tools and Applications
SWOT analysis is an essential tool for any organization to evaluate its position in the market based on four factors; Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat. While the strengths and weaknesses are considered internal factors, both opportunities and threats are considered external factors. In a previous article, we covered SWOT analysis as a tool to explore […]
Designorate Mind Map Template
In a previous article, we covered mind mapping as one of the effective tools to organize and visualize ideas during brainstorming sessions. Mind mapping can be used in the educational, business and personal domains. While there are many digital tools that allow teams to visuals ideas through computer generated applications; the traditional paper and pen […]
White Paper: Building the Innovative Organization
As we, in Designorate, try to provide useful resources for designers and design managers. We would like to introduce to you our first white paper resource, Building the Innovative Organization: A Select Literature Review of Key Factors of Organizational Innovation and Their Impact on Employees. This white paper is written by our contributor author and […]
Empathic Design Approach to User-Centred Design
In his book "Change by Design," Tim Brown describes empathy as "the mental habit that moves us beyond thinking of people as laboratory rats or standard deviations." Unlike marketing research that deals with numbers and facts, empathic design tries to meet users' needs and even thinks about what they may need to make their lives […]