Software Product Design constitutes a part of Software Product Development. A software product design calls for comprehensive research and innovation which is followed by assessing its requirements, designing a unique solution and finally jotting down the specifications. It mainly concentrates on the interaction as well as experience of the users to that of the technology. It also helps in understanding the market, the demands of the customers and the best possible way to develop a technology satisfying end-user’s requirements.
Product design bridges the gap between Product Development and Product Management. On one hand where product management calculates all issues, chalks out needs validating the solution, product design on the other, assesses those needs, writes specifications along with designing a solution. After this product development creates a solution, tests it, fixes the bugs and finally, assembles it into documentation.
At one end when product management is more about focusing on the market and the client’s business requirements and product development centering around the client’s technological needs, product design ensures encompassing the client’s end user’s requirements or it concentrates more on the user’s experience as well as their interaction with a particular technology.
The design process of a software product encompasses activities like- conceptualization, creating a design, architecting, working on technical product designs, product coding as per design, authenticating product ensuring it works according to the design and plan. The next steps also include product customization and implementation and even preserving different versions of the product for product life cycle. Need for Software Product Design arises when:-
- An enterprise is not able to achieve desirable product innovation, performance and outcomes.
- A client wants to apply IT technology in an interesting manner and is not sure about its feasibility, technicalities and benefits.
- You have an innovative product but perplexed about its features, which ones to use first to draw maximum customer attention towards the product.
All these issues are addressed well by a professional firm dealing with product designing of software. They can actually help you to get a road-map or a priority list to prioritize principles for determining the crucial needs of the product. Software product development and design process focuses on the key practice areas like- Development of software product iterative, Managing product needs to keep up with the release dates, Usage of component based architecture, Building interfaces on clear modules, Use of visual modeling or UML tools as well as screen prototypes, Strict use of QMS process ascertaining highest software quality.
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About the author: Anasua is a technical writer who is attached with some well known software development firms . She is sharing information regarding Software Product Design .
