User-centric design

Q: How deeply does Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure cover user-centric design?

Explains guiding principles and discovery activities, but stops short of prescribing a framework, development process, or workflow.

As explained in Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure

User-centric design is a design approach that prioritizes users' needs, behaviors, and experiences throughout product or service development.

User-centric design makes user needs and experiences central to product discovery and service modernization. It relies on ongoing research, multidisciplinary collaboration, and frequent iteration rather than a rigid delivery framework. section 8.1

Apply the approach through progressive activities:

Understand user needs through substantial internal and external discovery. section 8.1
Do ongoing user research and involve developers deeply in discovery. section 8.1
Use multidisciplinary teams, consistent experiences, and frequent service improvement as guiding principles. section 8.1

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A UK government tax-service modernization used user-centric design alongside continuous delivery and code developed in the open. Discovery addressed complex technical, organizational, political, policy, and service-design constraints. section 8.1

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