Designer’s Toolkit 2: Extending a web application into an interaction design collaborative platform

Abstract

In the field of interaction design, design methods play an important role in designing and developing products. There are various design processes that can be applied in interaction design. Designers often collaborate in groups and while conducting interaction design processes, they also need to document their findings and structure their design process. The number of Web applications serving as tools for designers and developers have been growing in the past years. There are various web applications used by interaction designers such as Miro and Figma that support collaboration. However, there is a lack of web applications that guide the users in the interaction design process. Designer’s Toolkit is a web application which is used to browse design methods and plan design sprints. The aim of this research is to extend this web application in to a collaboration platform where users can document their design processes and collaborate together on projects. Simultaneously, the work presented here answers what should be considered when designing a collaboration platform for interaction designers. The result is a set of eight guidelines on features to include in such a collaborative web application.