Product Blueprint

Thoroughly design your software in 8 weeks with a product blueprint

From user research to a high fidelity prototype and development estimates.

We understand that there are a lot of inherent risks and complexities when taking on a new digital technology initiative – plagued with unknowns. With our 8 week product blueprint, we aim to provide heightened clarity in product investments.

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What is a product blueprint?

A product blueprint is a full schematic of a software application created in order to reduce risk, align your team and users, and setup the development team for success before coding begins. It often includes a user-tested clickable prototype, written requirements, solution architecture documentation and high level development estimates.

Just like all the parts of a car are designed, engineered and spec’d out before they’re sent to the factory, your custom software application should be well designed, tested and engineered before it hits the developer’s assembly line.

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Our approach

Why choose Digital Scientists to blueprint your product?

We reduce the risk of users not using the product

Often trivialized, we start by speaking to real users and understanding their critical and unique challenges. This is key to building the product right the first time.

We create executive and full-team alignment

We deliver you a concept prototype that will bring alignment to your MVP vision and give early idea validation to your entire team.

We set development up for success

Whether we end up building it, another vendor, or yourselves internally, we deliver a first round of written requirements and dev ready designs that can be properly estimated against – increasing the accuracy of your business case.

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Our product blueprint process and deliverables

All of our design offerings begin with an Alignment Workshop to understand the product’s objectives, company goals, and align our two teams. After our teams are aligned we go to work researching, designing and documenting your product interface and architecture.

We generally work in 2-week sprints and check in weekly to maintain alignment and provide status updates.

What’s Included:

1

Actionable user insights

Our experienced team of UX designers, researchers and product managers will deliver actionable user insights after each round of user research and usability testing phases.

2

High fidelity prototype

Your stakeholders and development team will be able to align around a high fidelity, clickable prototype that serves as the source of truth for all development efforts.

3

Solution architecture

Our solution architects evaluate feature requirements, your tech stack and preferences, and any legal constraints to provide architecture documentation guiding the product’s technical direction.

4

Development ready designs

Our UX/UI designers create their final deliverables with development in mind, ensuring designs are comprehensive and formatted for easy use by development teams.

5

Product requirements

Our product managers write product requirements that serve as the contract between stakeholders, development and design – keeping all teams aligned on feature functionality.

Deliverables may include:

MVP feature prioritization roadmap
Competitive analysis
User interview insights and applicable research
User personas
Customer journey maps
UX designs, prototypes, and design systems
Usability testing or workflow validation
Walk-through design videos (project dependent)
Solution architecture documentation
Product requirements

Partners in innovation

Digital Scientists is a leading product blueprint development company that develops digital products for large and mid-sized companies. We are a unique collective of researchers, designers, and developers who love to produce exceptional services and experiences with a fast, highly disciplined team.

We partner with our clients to help them reach their desired outcome – whether that’s reaching their Series A funding, getting their product concept validated in the hands of users, or working with them for years to come to continue the product innovation cycle.

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Kick-start your product blueprint today.

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