101 Design Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems

Ingredient 22.

Put It into Context

See if your solution works in the right setting.

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton, writer

The Problem

Teams don’t consider the environments in which their solutions will be used, so they create the wrong solutions.

The Solution

Know where and how your ideas will be used so you can design a better solution.

• Clarify the real goals. Find problems that need to be solved by observing what customers do. Interview them, too, and get them to prioritize what’s most important.^[55] Get stakeholders to do the same from a business ...