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"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - R. Buckminster Fuller

Process

I find myself constantly adjusting this page. It's actually quite hard to put something up that is supposed to be a dictum, set in stone, when in my experience it invariably reveals itself as a fluid process with lots of give and take. What I have here is a generalization, since every step in any self-proclaimed formal process inevitably varies with the landscape of its specific environment; that said, the process I engage while developing the user experience is typically some variation of the following:

Discovery	Design	Development	Evaluation	Deployment	Wrap-Up
Requirements Gathering	Information Architecture	Prototyping	Heuristic Reviews	Graphics Refinement	Style Guide Creation
Product/Service Analysis	Storyboarding / Flow Diagrams	Scripting	User Reviews	UI Refinement	Help Docs Creation
Task Analysis	Interaction Design	Graphics Creation	Usability Testing
Personas Creation	Wireframes	Style Definition
Competitive Analysis	Visual Design
Corporate UI Standards

Following this roadmap ensures that each step in the process is considered; the result of which is a carefully contemplated user experience that will engage the audience, facillitate user goal achievement, and ultimately ensure a successful product release.