Assessing

Assessing

The category of assessing includes design tools that help you evaluate solutions at an early stage of their development. The tools describe various ways of making it possible to conceive of different types of solutions – physical, digital or in fact highly technical – quickly and easily. This enables you to assess the solutions at an early stage, thus avoiding major errors at a later stage. That’s a lot of trouble saved.

A number of general principles apply to each tool in the category of assessing:

1. Choose the right form of assessment, fitting the type of solution.
2. Record as much as possible while assessing.
3. Assess the assessment; first try it out with your team.
4. Do not strive to make it too pretty. The idea is to get to the gist fast and evaluate the solution.