Lauren Argenta
Design director at Thinkmill. Loves wireframing, all things user research, and solving complex problems using design and engineering collaboration.
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Core concepts
Core concepts are an expression of a project‘s underlying data model and relationships, translated into a written format that the team can build an aligned understanding on.
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Design Ethnography
Adopted from the world of Anthropology, Design Ethnography is a research method that captures everyday life to discover interesting and unseen user experience opportunities.
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Functional wireframing
Functional wireframing documents how the various pages and interface elements of an app or website need to come together in order to support the user.
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Low-fidelity prototypes
Low-fidelity prototypes bring interactivity to functional wireframes to in order to test and better understand how a product or app needs to respond to user interaction.
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Process mapping
Process mapping surfaces the movement of information and user interaction throughout a system in the form of a flowchart. It captures assumptions or current-state realities related to how the system works, and helps expedite alignment, design, and development,
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Playback
Playbacks are checkpoint updates to a wider audience than the core team. They share progress to garner feedback and ensure delivery aligns with expectations before proceeding further.
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User journey mapping
User journey mapping captures the steps a user takes to complete a specific task in the form of a flowchart. It surfaces assumptions about how the team expects a user to interact with the product, and highlights pain points and areas for improvement.
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How to establish multi-disciplinary teams to effectively design and build products
Lauren recently co-presented with Paul Merrell from Meld Studios at UX Australia 2022 about how Thinkmill & Meld established a multi-disciplinary team to effectively design and build a product.
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Engineering-led design
Lauren Argenta describes Thinkmill’s Engineering-led Design mindset, and the 5 behaviours that a cross-disciplinary team can adopt to make work life (and the software we make) better.
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