Pre-Mortems in UX: A Futuristic Approach to Designing Today
Stepping into the Shoes of Failure to Foster Success
Picture yourself in the throes of a high-stakes UX project. Weeks into design, you hit an unexpected snag. The “perfect” user flow is turning out to be confusing for users during testing. Frustrating, isn't it?
Now, let's reimagine the scenario with a twist. You foresaw this issue before the project even began, using a tool we refer to as a pre-mortem.
This powerful approach allowed you to predict, plan, and preempt problems before they happened. Let's venture into the realm of pre-mortems and explore how they can elevate your designs from just successful to truly exceptional.
Time-Traveling to Problem Land
Imagine you're Marty McFly, but instead of preventing your parents' disastrous meeting, you're venturing back from a future where your UX project went haywire. Your mission is to avert that disaster before it happens. Now, your time machine is a simple but effective exercise: the pre-mortem.
Role-play a catastrophe: Gather your team and assume the project failed. In the …