Design Thinking and Development Tools

For each design step, there are several tools that can be used for each stage that will expedite the development of our design plans.

• Understand - since this will be your first encounter with the problem, Assumption testing is important to make sure you have removed
• Empathize - use immersion to better understand the plight of the people inside the company
• Synthesize - use mind mapping to keep track of all the information collected
• Idea - in this stage it is important to establish the connection of the product to the people, through Finding Value Proposition
• Prototyping
• Testing - use the rapid iteration tool to pull off a faster rollout of the testing stage and to collect faster results

What kind of questions would you ask at each step? For example, which new features do you expect in the app, how would you use these features, what current features do you enjoy (based on the "creating a new app" strategy to solve the problem?