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The Team Pulse Design Process is well suited to small to medium sized groups. It’s structure allows people that share a common vision, but perhaps have vastly different strengths, weaknesses, skill sets and biases, to function as a cohesive unit in achieving the end goal of the design process.
The Team Pulse Design Process emerged by necessity and pulls from many excellent group work and decision making methods. This post contains working descriptions of these processes and methods, along with links to go deeper into learning about them. Ultimately the Team Pulse Design Process is a simple framework built from common sense organizational principles. This simple framework can be fleshed out with a myriad of other design strategies, methods, processes and perspectives. It’s greatest strength lies in designing the design process before the design process begins. Putting in the time up front to design the design process saves countless headaches, hurt feelings and wasted hours – and greatly increases the chances of not only coming up with a stellar design, but seeing it implemented and inhabited in a way that will pass the 7th Generation Design Test.
The Team Pulse design process is based upon a pulse pattern – expansion and contraction. Each pulse has two parts – a group part and an individual/small group part. Each of the two parts has several distinct steps that, when followed deliberately and repetitively, serve to ensure that each individual’s efforts are being effectively applied toward the larger goal of the design process.
Each individual pulse has its own unique goal and purpose. The goal and purpose of each pulse is decided by the team members collectively by following the steps within each pulse. In this way the Team Pulse Design Process is self informing and constantly accepting feedback to steer towards a successful conclusion.
Click on the image below to enlarge it – note the two distinct inhale and exhale phases of the pulse and the individual steps within each inhale and exhale.
Each pulse of the design process is divided into two halves and has at least 9 steps. Completing these steps (even, and especially, if they seem redundant) will help the design process inform itself accurately and keep it on track towards a successful product.
First, the two halves of each pulse. One is the “inhale” half, the other is the “exhale”. Just like our breathing, there can’t be one without the other and they must alternate with one another.
The inhale/exhale dynamic to the design process can help to inform the attitudes and emotions of the team members throughout each individual pulse.
The 9 steps within each design pulse, while present in linear order here for clarity’s sake, are ultimately cyclical when used in the Team Pulse Design Process. Note that the linear list spans two different inhale/exhale events.
To download a copy of this diagram with labels and explanations, click this link Team Pulse Design Process.pdf
Next, learn how to overlay design frameworks on top of the Team Pulse Design Process.
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