Design Protocols
Design Processes
Established procedures and guidelines for conducting design-related activities within a team or organization. Design protocols ensure consistency and efficiency.
In practice
Refer to established rules or procedures governing the design process within a specific context. Design protocols are relevant at all stages, ensuring consistency and adherence to standards. Their importance lies in streamlining workflows, promoting best practices, and ensuring that design decisions align with predefined rules and procedures. Design protocols contribute to the efficiency, reliability, and quality of the design process by providing a structured framework for decision-making and collaboration.
Questions
What is Design Protocols?
Design protocols are the agreed procedures a team follows for recurring activities: how work is reviewed, how research is run, how decisions are recorded.
Why do you use Design Protocols?
They remove the overhead of renegotiating process every time, and they make quality repeatable rather than dependent on who is doing it.
How do you use/apply Design Protocols?
Write down what the team already does well, formalise it lightly, and prune anything that becomes ritual rather than useful.
When do you use Design Protocols?
Once a team is large enough that people work differently from each other.
Who uses Design Protocols?
Design leads and operations, applied by the team.
