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    Phase 3: Ideate & Converge    

Ideation Goals & Tools

Goal: 

Create 3-4 User Stories with a new inclusive product that addresses the next billion users.

Tools: 

Excel & PowerPoint have robust accessibility (a11y) features that meet WCAG 2.2 standards so were used for all collaborative work. The offerings of collaborative tools like Figma, Adobe XD, Mural, Miro, Jam Board etc. were explored but failed all POUR tests.  

Process Development & Diverse Team Assembly

Developed Product Diversity Office Inclusive Design Methodology

Ensured all documentation and collaboration tools were accessible (WCAG 2.2 AA) for design team member with visual impairement and others.

Table of Contents of Inclusive Design Methodology Document
Workflow of Methodologies Phases

Assembled Diverse Team of 8 (size dictated by Executive).

Inclusive Design Team consisted of 6 individuals from marginalized groups and 1 with a Visual Impairment. 

Required extensive persuasion of leadership to grant access to desired team members.

To build team trust I created & facilitated a Design / Creativity Workshop. to 

Trained in methods to increase creativity and empathy through interactive examples and provision of ways to increase creativity (guardrails, add, subtract, multiply, dependency, multi-purpose, etc.). 

Ideation

Excel was used as a repository to collect ideations from the survey and the team. 

Affinity Clustering was utilized to select subthemes within themes.

Dot voting was conducted to select ideas from excel to then create user stories, journey maps. Impact & Difficulty were taken into consideration during voting

Deciding Part 1

I created crazy 8's, user stories, and detailed scripts to demonstrate pain points and further iterate.

Using PowerPoint, due to robust a11y, we then conducted dot voting on the best user stories, products, and features.

Example of User Story & Script
Example Figure 8 showing pain point and solution progression
Example of Bar Graph created to determine scenario winners
Bar graph depicting results of dot voting by feature in user stories

Deciding Part 2

Executive and Illustrator Dictated where users could be from so user stories were updated and features were further iterated upon through round robins, dot voting, and Decision Matrices (Feasibility vs. Impact).



Decision Matrix results for Feasibility vs Company fit to select the top 5 features in a scenario
Dot Voting (Excel) Method to select features to place in user stories
DecisionMatrix