Design thinking: why you should always include UX processes
summary
Design thinking proves usable by non‑specialists and the recommendation is to set aside 25–30% budget for UX activities; quick usability tests with 5 testers already yield >75% useful feedback. The team prototypes in lo‑fi and hi‑fi, builds a touchscreen Qt UI on a Qt Develboard, and sends personalized Spotify playlists via a background process writing to an SQL DB. For the activity arcs sliders map to circles with function x^a where a ≈ 1.58, and the demo works live.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 4:46Overview of design thinking
- 12:41Understand phase explained
- 15:36Define phase and ideation
- 17:23Design sprint vs brainstorming
- 18:05Testing phase importance
- 21:17Five common mistakes
- 24:48Real product case study
- 38:26Technical implementation details
- 41:38Page architecture in Qt
- 44:29Mapping sliders to arcs
- 50:34Live Q&A session
