The design process

I have been trying to recreate a little cape i bought a from a woman on a footpath during my last day in Amsterdam. By trying I mean thinking about making it all the time, but not really doing anything. It’s probably because I don’t even know where to start.

Recently I met my friends dad and we spoke about the design process. I thought that it was going to be this magical method that would make everything in my life more efficient. I read about it tonight and it just seems to be a more human version of scrum software development… This was my nightmare in college so i’m reluctant to admit that it is a very efficient method.

planning

user stories

This is where you thing what do i want this to do?, what problems is it going to solve?.

To do this, we use user stories, where you roleplay as someone who is going to interact with the product and you try and figure out what they need from it.

product backlog: groom and refine 🤤

Now we just think of tasks that address each user story and break them up into tasks that have a simpler solution.

Agile Methodology

Obviously I won’t be happy with the first version so i’ll be using a sort of Agile Methodology. Each cycle will be a new version of the cape.

milestones

split the project into chunks, and give a rough timeline of when each milestone should be accomplished.

v1: 31 August

v2: 30 september

v3: 31 october

v4: 31 November

deploy: 10 december …