User research and collaboration guide series

Developing and communicating your design

Tools and approaches for developing and communicating your design.
Illustration of a man and a woman designing or building a structure with tools

Overview

The approaches included here will help you to communicate your design concepts to your team and stakeholders and test the concepts with users. 

Visual design

Learn how to communicate the visual style for your designs:

  • Style tiles

Design patterns

Methods to help you establish reusable design patterns to ensure consistency include:

  • Design pattern library

User interactions

Methods and techniques for analyzing and documenting user interactions include:

  • Storyboarding
  • Task flow analysis
  • User scenarios

Wireframes

Use wireframing for a low-fidelity way to communicate preliminary designs:

  • Wireframing

Prototypes

Use prototyping to communicate a high-fidelity structure of your design:

  • Prototyping