Takeaways
Key Project Learnings
Play to the Strengths of Your Team
Each team member brings a unique set of abilities and perspectives to a group when working together, at times concrete structures and equivalently decided responsibilities can get in the way of productive work. Realizing where group members excel, maximizing the impact of expertise, and taking the position of a learner are impactful ways to grow as a designer and achieve the best possible team output.
Design Systems are the Glue
When we began working on high-fidelity prototypes we hadn’t yet defined a design system and chaos quickly ensued. Design systems can always be edited, updated, and expanded but possessing a guiding light to collectively reference ensures the cohesion of design decisions made across the team.
Make Something Then Iterate
It’s almost impossible to make something out of nothing, but making something out of something else isn’t too hard. Momentum matters!
Ground Design Decisions in User Needs
When moving through the initial stages of designing our product we based our ideas on how users said they interacted with food rather than the actual needs of users when it came to food which proved to be much more complex. It would have been helpful to fully explore the problem space we were approaching in order to make a product that was both informative and impactful.
