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Designing a product is highly challenging and may be the most difficult task our group has ever faced together. We all had unique visions for our final product and merging those visions together with the other constraints of real life, such as time, was difficult and taught us all some valuable lessons. When first deciding on the problem we wanted to solve, we needed to make sure that whatever product we decided to design and develop was one that left us room for improvement when compared to existing products.
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the meta-level decisions about your design process: your risk assessments, your decisions about what features to prototype and which prototype techniques to use, and how you evaluated the results of your observations.
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