This article is part of a series of blog posts that aims to empower designers to both hone their design process skills and to utilize them even under the most challenging circumstances. To achieve this goal, this series offers a set of scalable core design steps to assure you can deliver consistently professional results reflecting the best work you can do, which will also inspire confidence in you from your fellow softwaremakers by not only demonstrating you know what you are doing but also by delivering superior designs.
An expanded version of this article, is being written by Jonathan Arnowitz, Hugh Dubberly and Michael Arent and will appear in the Fourth Edition of the Handbook of HCI, which is coming out later in 2025.