The QA Designer

As designers, we plan, research, design, prototype, test, design again, and then hand off everything to those who will build it. Done!

In the development phase, the team builds, tests, and ships the product to the users. They make sure that the product works well, but who makes sure that it works as we designed it?

As important as having a QA test on the development workflow is having a design QA test at the end of the product building and delivering, to evaluate different aspects, of how it looks, works, and feels.

Thinking of ways to test, measure, and discuss best practices for design QA is important since our work just is done (for now) when the product is in the user's hand.