Everything as Service – Give me exactly what I want!
The constant demand of the last decade from the consumer and corporates was for highly personalized services.
Recent trends show this demand being reshaped to a paradigm of “Everything as Service”.
The trend is based on the truth that people and business are always in a state of flux – thanks to the rapidly changing consumer and corporate demands. For that reason there cannot be a perfect solution for a given scenario and the one who is ready to rapidly adapt to the changing environment will be the winner!
What does that mean to a UX designer?
- Your design methodology and artifacts should support rapid changes (both micro and macro) in the business environment.
- Your design artifacts should be scalable and at the same time should be rooted to the larger design organism.
- Your design artifacts should be an all time fit for client marketing strategy.
The challenge is…
How will you define a design system like that?
Well we have some concepts around us – watch your kid play with that Lego Classic building blocks. Watch them making different shapes using the same building blocks.
Now let’s apply the same principle to UX design. Take the latest wireframe you created and fragment it to the smallest components. These are your budding blocks. Now start combining these blocks to bigger panels and panels to patterns and patterns to templates.
Anytime there is a change in your requirement or a business enhancement you could assemble your blocks and panels to create a new template or an instance of an existing template to satisfy your business needs. The concept gives you greater flexibility to quickly shift between your abstract and concrete.
This will do wonders on a long run.
—JVK—