Product Idea: How to Get Started with a Best Software Development Agency
The best software applications do not begin with the
development process, but with the opening.
At the beginning of each new software project, it is very
important to delve deeply into what your project goals are, which is realistic
given your time and budget constraints, and what the final product may look
like.
Some projects are simpler than others - perhaps you are trying
to iterate an existing product to add new technological integrations, and you
have a fairly clear plan on how to do this. In other cases, you start from
scratch: your company needs a product that achieves x results, and everything
you need to get it is ready to use.
In this case, we start with an in-depth workshop on
innovative engineering to discuss the needs of our customers, how to satisfy
them, and even create a rough prototype to understand how the final product
will look and feel before investing in the development process. Inspired by
design thinking, let's take a look at the steps that we will go through in our
workshops on creating new products:
Understand
We begin each new interaction, striving to reveal the main
goals of the product and what the end user needs from him. This includes
detailed interviews with your company's expert team, as well as observation and
discussion with end users of the product you are offering. We want to know what
is missing in the existing solutions on the market, and to understand the
problems that we solve, both for interested parties in your company and for
people who will use it. We do not ask what needs to be built; we ask why.
Conjure
Then, as soon as we have a clear idea of what the problems
and needs are, we will begin to brainstorm ideas to solve these problems. This
Interaction Design Foundation blog post talks about best practices for
effective brainstorming, including:
• Set a time limit - spend between 15 and 60 minutes
focusing only on ideas, generating as many ideas as possible before discussing
them.
• Start with one specific “problem statement” regarding a
problem that you intend to solve with your software product.
• Postpone judgment - do not offer criticism of other
people's ideas at this stage; just listen to them.
• Encourage wild ideas - the more out of the box, the
better.
• Develop other people's ideas - start saying “and” instead
of “but,” discussing the vision of the other side.
• Illustrate your idea - use a drawing pad to draw your
plan.
After this session of ideas, we will return with a bunch of
ideas (some brilliant, some not so) and prepare them for your review.
Solve
We will probably discard many of our original ideas without
attracting them to a meeting with the client, but those who do this will be
carefully analyzed and analyzed. We want to know:
• Does this idea fit the needs of your target users?
• Will it be intuitive for them?
• Can we create an effective version within our schedules
and budget constraints?
Going through this process, we will ultimately accept one
idea and define its required functions to create a minimally attractive
product.
Prototype
At this stage, we want to create an earlier version of the
product, just to look at its appearance. It can be as simple as sketchbooks on
a notepad for sketches, or graphic animations to accurately understand what
happens when interacting with the graphics on the screen.
To affirm
Finally, before moving on to the development phase, we will
ask various users (including both interested parties and potential end users)
to test the prototype and collect their feedback on the process. Does the
interface make sense given the intended use cases? Can users easily achieve
their ultimate goals? Talk to your testers and get feedback from them about how
the product fits their needs. it’s important for us to make sure that both the
interested parties and the end users are delighted with the vision of the final
product, so we won’t move on to development until we know that we have
implemented it.
The transition from the core of the idea to a full-fledged
digital product is a complex process, nothing more than the initial stage of
development. But if you take the time to make this process right, it can mean
the difference between an innovative product that does exactly what you wanted
and a mediocre product that is no different from other solutions already on the
market that are outdated a few months after launch.
Throughout this process, we focus on a user-oriented
approach to ensure that we create a product that is smooth and intuitive to
navigate while achieving business goals. And even after the launch of the
product, our work is not completed: we continue to iterate, request feedback
and update functions in accordance with the needs of users and changing
environments. We embrace a culture of innovation from start to finish.
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