Design a physical product
All the steps you need to follow to design a physical product following best practices. Go from research and ideation all the way to product design.
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What’s in the workflow you’re about to get:
Use this product design workflow to build a physical product even if you don’t have a Head of Product. Guided workflow, best practice methodologies and tools in an intelligent and collaborative space.
Frame your challenge
Properly framing your design challenge is critical to your success. Here’s how to do it just right.
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The real-time research wall
Using our project board to build your research wall. This is the digital space where you put up post-its, personas, images, outcomes of surveys, results, analysis, in fact, anything related to our project that helps us make sense of the subject of our research. In service design, we use walls in a similar way to detectives trying to solve a crime.
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Define your buyer persona
A buyer or user persona is a tool commonly used to represent a target audience for your product or service. Creating a persona is like creating a file with everything you know about that target audience so you can develop content marketing, develop your product or design, etc. The more time you spend defining your persona the more likely to develop good marketing, product, business, and sales strategies. Keep your persona updated in Nova for everybody to see and edit.
Brainstorming & evaluation wall
Share and evaluate your ideas. You can also use brainstorming card decks to spark new ideas. Any of our card decks can be used inside a whiteboard.
Capability Quicksheet & Roadmap success
You’ve got a great solution, but what is it going to take to execute it? Use this session to create a list and define each category: “Distribution,” “Capabilities,” and “Partners.” What needs to happen for each category? Invite your team and collect their knowledge before you move forward.
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We have multiple workflows for design departments and you can choose your own based on your current objectives and your company. You can also create your own processes and save them inside your library using Nova Pro.
One single workflow to design a new product
Workflows that guide you through each step of the process, so you and your team know exactly what to do next to design a physical product. All sessions are guided and trackable.
Share with your team, clients, and freelancers
Invite your team, clients, and freelancers and capture everyone’s knowledge in one place. Avoid sending emails and documents that contain multiple edits across separate documents. Keep everything in one place and everyone on the same page.
Keep everyone accountable
Add session duration and due dates and invite your team to each session. Make sure everyone knows when and why their participation is important so you never have to follow up.
Save time looking for templates, tools, or instructions
Visit our tool library and browse our tools for design and creativity. The tools we provide include customizable processes that guide you and your team step by step so you can achieve your goals.
Whiteboards to lead meetings and visualize ideas
Lead your meetings and discussions using a digital whiteboard and our card decks. Our whiteboard includes features like sticky notes, timers, tasks, templates, stickers, call rooms, etc
Manage your tasks
Find all your tasks organized by due date in “My tasks” or in your projects or Kanban boards. Filter tasks by status and take action when tasks require your attention.
Lead your research sessions remotely
Leading focus group and customer interviews? Are you using methodologies like card sort, 5 human factors, or the user diary? Are you gathering feedback from customers or inviting them to surveys? Create your survey or your cards to use during the interview in Nova.
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Our users are diverse and many of them work at start-ups, creative organizations, agencies, NGOs, universities, government institutions, and R&D departments. We are proud to have a global community, and our vision is to support small and large companies to develop solutions for today’s global challenges.
