As UX designers, creating a product that not only appeal but also stay evergreen to your clients and users can be challenging. In many cases, UX designers tend to miss this problem in their work which cause them to pay the risk later. Below are several ways that can help you get out of the woods and make your designs stay evergreen even in the future.
- Are any features going to need updates down the road?
For some web designers, creating design features for a website can be too amusing until they go far-advanced on the process and forget some key future–oriented which can cause their products become dull within a short time. Therefore, ask yourself several questions before you start working on your project will help to avoid creating a short term product and spending more money on the cost of updating it, below are several questions that can help you anticipate several things in the future:
- Are any of these features going to be obsolete in the foreseable future?
- How many of the features in this application/ website will require consistent updates?
- How Does this feature impact the business model?
Even though, UX designers have to consider about how users will react to their design, but this doesn’t mean that you completely neglect your client needs. In fact, the needs of the business ought never be ignored in favor of the needs of the user because sometimes what users want may not relevant to what your clients want. For example: you choose to include three rows of blog article snippets on the homepage of a website. While an application’s users may be overjoyed with your decision, how will your clients feel in six month? when the blog articles have to be moved to make room for feature that was reserved for phase II of development.
- Do You really need to build this feature?
Sometimes, it is quite a dilemma for some UX designers when you have already taken into account everything that a user could need yet still there is too much empty space on the page. In one side, it is good to know that you have put everything on it, but seeing it so simple may tempt designers to add some extra features to reduce the empty space, such as adding new sections for “To Do”, “My Tasks” or “What’s New” which are all unnecessary if your clients only need two sections for “ My tasks,” and “Announcements”.